(Chris Webb) My chalk talk yesterday at the BI Conference went…. ok. Unfortunately, despite having asked for projector so I could show my demo code it turned out the screen I got was pretty small so only the people in the front few rows could see anything. So I told everyone that I would put the c
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Using Generics and Inheritance to Simplify Development
(Brian Mains) Inheritance is a common Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concept that can be both well used and overused in application development. In combination with Generics, a new feature in .NET 2.0 that supports strong typing, using both inheritance and generics, can be a powerful combination
Getting Started with Derby
(Stephen B. Morris) If Derby were the only product to come out of the open source arena, I think I’d be happy with that! That’s an exaggeration of course, but it points to the importance of Derby. Database technology has traditionally occupied an exalted and expensive position in the world of softwa
IDUG Highlights
(Philip Nelson) I’m writing this in the departure lounge at San Francisco airport, on the way home from this year’s IDUG (International DB2 User Group) North American conference.
XML Notepad 2007
(Martin Heller) In case you missed it, Microsoft resurrected the old XML Notepad last year. The new version, XML Notepad 2007, is a .NET 2.0 application for which source code is available on CodePlex. I find it the application quite useful.
Declare the Coolest XQuery Variables
(Anghel Leonard) This tip shows how to declare some important variables in XQuery.
XBRL, XML with a mind for business
(Daniel Rubio) Web services have effectively established a cross-platform solution around the classical “handshake” in client/server architectures, but the actual payload exchanged between parties can have very distinct formats depending on the nature of an application. In an attempt to standardize
Oracle 10g upgrade
(Syed Jaffar Hussain) As part of upgrading all our production databases from 8i & 9i to 10g, last Friday, early morning, we had successfully upgraded our core banking business critical database from 9i to 10gR2.
Encrypt backups using Oracle 10gR2’s RMAN
(Bob Watkins) A spate of recent news stories has highlighted the importance of protecting database backups. Backup tapes stolen from banks, brokerage houses, retail stores, and even the IRS have exposed data from millions of customers (source: Chronology of Data Breaches).
DTrace and MySQL – 1
(Frank Mashraqi) With this post, I am starting another series of blog posts that will help you become familiar of DTrace. You can then apply that knowledge to find all the hidden performance goodies of MySQL on Solaris 10. Sounds good?