(Stephen Swoyer) As many a grey-haired IT pro will tell you, the mainframe isn’t dead. In fact—and if recent market research is a reliable indicator—the mainframe has experienced a comeback of sorts: Big Time. Mainframe revenues are up, mainframe processing capacity (measured in MIPS) is at an all-t
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What’s Your Poison? XML, JSON, or HTML?
(Jeremy Keith) Ajax is language agnostic, at least on the server. It doesn’t matter what server-side language you use for your business logic. However, when you are requesting data from the server, the data that’s sent from the server must be formatted in a way that the browser can understand. Your
Building Full-Text Search Applications with Oracle Text
(Marko Asplund) Oracle Text is a powerful search technology built into all Oracle Database editions, including the free Express Edition (XE). The development APIs provided by Oracle Text allow software developers to easily implement full-featured content search applications.
nXSLTC – an experimental XSLT compiler for .NET 3.5
(Oleg Tkachenko) So here is nXSLTC.exe v1.0b – an experimental XSLT compiler for .NET 3.5 (Visual Studio “Orcas”). Get it here (free open-source). I probably shouldn’t be building this tool, but I have my reasons.
How to trace a java application through a connection pool using DBMS_MONITOR
(Harm Verschuren) Much has been written on how to trace database sessions through a java application in all sort of different techniques. Since Oracle 10g a new technique is added to the tracing stack: DBMS_MONITOR. This blog briefly describes with code examples how you could use DBMS_MONITOR to tr
Integers in PHP, running with scissors, and portability
(Andrew Aksyonoff) Until recently I thought that currently popular scripting languages, which mostly evolved over last 10 years or something, must allow for easier portability across different platforms compared to ye good olde C/C++.
Scaling out with distributed partitioned views in SQL Server 2005
(Tim Chapman) I have examined the differences between scaling up and scaling out your SQL Server environment and explained how to scale out your system with either horizontal data partitioning or vertical data partitioning. In this final installment of the series, I provide a more in-depth look at s
Simplify XML reads and writes
(Cameron Laird) XPath can dramatically simplify and speed applications with even modest XML involvement. If XPath isn’t already in your toolkit, now’s the time to add it. Concrete examples coded in brief Python make the appeal of query idioms apparent.
Building a PreserveProperty Control in ASP.NET 2.0
(Rick Strahl) ASP.NET provides a couple of page-level state persistence mechanisms in ViewState and the new ControlState.
How to alert on system errors
(Simon Sabin) Alerts in SQL server rely on the error being logged to the event log. Not all system messages are logged which means you can’t alert on them. In SQL 2000 you could hack the sysmessages table, however in SQL2005 you can’t.