Technology Questions

A DB2 utility used to collect statistics about the data values  in tables which can be used   by the optimizer to decide the access path. It also collects statistics used for space   management. These statistics are stored in DB2 catalog tables.

ARC is a compiler-level feature that simplifies the process of managing the lifetimes of Objective-C objects. Instead of you having to remember when to retain or release an object, ARC evaluates the lifetime requirements of your objects and automatically inserts the appropriate method calls at compile time.

Access specifiers in C++ determines the scope of the class members.

Public: If a class member is public, it can be used anywhere without the access restrictions.

Private: if a class member is private, it can be used only by the members and friends of class.

Protected: If a class member is protected, it can be used only by the members and friends of class and the members and friends of classes derived from class.

Assemblies are the basic building blocks required for any application to function in the .NET realm. They are partially compiled code libraries that form the fundamental unit of deployment, versioning, activation scoping, reuse, and security. Typically, assemblies provide a collection of types and resources that work together to form a logical unit of functionality. They are the smallest deployable units of code in .NET. Compared to the executable files assemblies are far more reliable, more secure, and easy to manage. An assembly contains a lot more than the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) code that is compiled and run by the Common Language Runtime (CLR). In other words, you can say that an assembly is a set of one or more modules and classes compiled in MSIL, and metadata that describes the assembly itself, as well as the functionalities of the assembly classes.

In C++, void represents the absence of type, so void pointers are pointers that point to a value that has no type. The void pointers can point to any data type.

You can declare void pointer as follows:

void *p;

ALV is Application List viewer. Sap provides a set of ALV (ABAP LIST VIEWER) function modules which can be put into use to embellish the output of a report. This set of ALV functions is used to enhance the readability and functionality of any report output. Cases arise in sap when the output of a report contains columns extending more than 255 characters in length. In such cases, this set of ALV functions can help choose selected columns and arrange the different columns from a report output and also save different variants for report display. This is a very efficient tool for dynamically sorting and arranging the columns from a report output. The report output can contain up to 90 columns in the display with the wide array of display options.

There are 5 items presented in the associate container. They are set, multiset, map, multimap and bitset.

DocumentDB is a NoSQL document-oriented database and records saves in key-value pairs. It's same as the other NoSQL document-oriented such as MongoDB.