(eric2971) Recently, I ran across an issue where I needed to control the background color of the selected items in a Windows Forms ListBox control. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that not only was such a capability not present in the properties, but that the authors of the control seemed to g
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Oracle extent allocation: AUTOALLOCATE vs. UNIFORM
(David) Starting with Oracle 9i, DBAs can now create locally managed tablespaces.
Use logon triggers to initialize user sessions in Oracle
(Bob Watkins) You may be aware of the old USERENV function, which returned session values such as the user’s session_id, language, and whether the user had DBA privileges. Although USERENV still exists for legacy reasons, it was superseded by a new function in Oracle 8i, SYS_CONTEXT.
Calling unmanaged function from within managed code
(Abey George Peter) Have you ever tried to called an unmanaged function (eg: MessageBox function inside the User32.dll ) with in a managed code? Let’s try to do that.
Pulling the Back-Room Data Warehouse onto Center Stage with RFID
(Harikrishna S. Aravapalli) Imagine a world where people, machines, products, buildings, computers, food, transport systems and more are all interconnected into a web of objects. The information about them is being captured, processed and analyzed in an event-based environment by an all-powerful, ce
Hosting and Consuming WCF Services
(Chris Peiris and Dennis Mulder) This article discusses Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) hosting options and consuming WCF services. The traditional ASMX Web services were hosted only on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). The hosting options for WCF services are significantly enhan
Restart Manager and Generic Method Compilation
(Stephen Toub) When my application attempts to access a file, I get access-denied errors because the file is in use by another application. In the past, I’ve used tools from Sysinternals (microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals) to figure out what that other application is, but I’d like to be able to dis
So, why use mySQL 5.0
(Dathan) Every database that houses user generated content is a master in at least 1 pair within my environment. To make sure that id’s don’t collide we engineered around the auto-increment functionality or lack there of in mySQL-4.1. For the most part the auto-increment is externally generated.
Working wth Variables in Database Interactions with Transact-SQL
(Jagadish Chaterjee) Quite some time ago, I started a lengthy series on “Database Interactions with PL/SQL.” It continues to this day. I have received a lot of feedback from several readers throughout the world. I want to thank all of them for suggesting new topics for me to cover.
Ajax and XML: Five Ajax anti-patterns
(Jack D Herrington) You can learn a lot about how to do things correctly by understanding how things are done incorrectly. Certainly, there’s a right way and a wrong way to write Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) applications. This article discusses some common coding practices you will want to a