(José Valerio) Many times, experienced DBAs ask me how to make a cold backup to disk using RMAN, well the procedure is very trivial and explained below, use it at your own risk, its just provided for educational purposes.
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Rails, Stored Procedures, Migrations, Mysql 5+ and … Trouble!
(Morten M. Christensen) This is a tale about Ruby On Rails, custom stored procedures for MySql 5 and how Rails 1.2.3 is not only opinionated against stored procedures but also actually incompatible with creating and sometimes calling (mysql) stored procedures. The tales does not end with a truly hap
Shaping the future of secure Ajax mashups
(Brent Ashley) Current Web browsers weren’t designed to easily and securely get content from multiple sources into one page. Discover how developers have stretched the available tools to fit the task and how doing so has put strain on the resulting applications with respect to security and scalabili
Distinct values of more than one column
(Rudy Limeback) How do I see distinct values of more than one column in a single SQL command? (R)
ORDER BY and FETCH FIRST in Subselects [DB2 9 for z/OS]
(Craig Mullins) Here is another quick post in my series on new features in DB2 9 for z/OS.
Migrate Siebel 7 e-business applications from DB2 UDB Version 8 to DB2 9
(Noureddine Brahimi) This article guides you through a Siebel 7 database environment upgrade from DB2 UDB Version 8 to DB2 9. You’ll walk through the necessary steps and learn the tools and commands that you will need to accomplish the migration.
Design Patterns for ASP.NET Developers, Part 3: Advanced Patterns
(Alex Homer) This is the last in a series of three articles that explore the built-in support for standard design patterns in ASP.NET, and ways in which you can implement common patterns in your own applications.
Tale of a .NET Component (Part V)
(Peter Aitken) This is the fifth and final article in a series that covers all the details of developing a .NET component. By following this process from start to finish, you may learn aspects of .NET development that are not provided in more specialized articles.
Personalization with Profiles and Web Parts in ASP.NET 2.0
(Randy Connolly) Web applications often need to track user information over time. Sometimes, this information is mission critical, such as customer orders, shipping addresses, and so on. A site may also want to track information that is not absolutely essential to the application, but is helpful in
Using the Enterprise Library 3 Validation Block in ASP.NET
(Brian Mains) With the release of Enterprise Library 3, a brand new Validation Block (Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Validation) has emerged that allows developers to perform custom validation in an application based on custom validation setup for a business object. When the validation occurs