(Rikki Kirzner) Software architects or developers—are you developing applications in heterogeneous and/or globally distributed environments? If so, are you getting fed up with using multiple tools and processes to support and synchronize your efforts? Do you need a more productive, agile, and holist
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VB .NET Tip: Assembly Deployment Best Practices
(Bill Hatfield) Deployment issues often get swept aside when deadlines overtake you and getting it out the door is all that matters. But, if maintaining the code is also a consideration, you’d do well to take note of the following assembly deployment best practices.
Using Substitution Variables
You ever had a time when you wanted to run a SQL script, but the values it used had to change dynamically every time you run it? I sure have. Oracle itself (believe it or not) proposes two solutions to this task. One is to use the substitution variable marker & or the &&. What’s the difference b
Fusion cooking
(Benjamin De Boe) Fusion is hot, not only in many modern kitchens, but also at Oracle, where it means the synergy between our middleware and applications offering. As you might know, the next version of our eBusiness Suite, quite appropriately referred to as Oracle Fusion Applications, is being buil
On importing data from Oracle into Excel with CopyFromRecordset
(René Nyffenegger) In my last blog entry, I have written a little Excel macro. This macro opens a connection to an Oracle database, issues a select statement and then iterates over each record within the result set. For each record, it also iterates over each attribute within this record.
Execute an XPath and get the line numbers
(Oleg A. Paraschenko) I’m investigating the structure of an XML file. The best tool is an usual text editor (vim), but I need to look at some specific tags in some specific contexts. The idea is to execute an XPath and somehow to get to the location in the editor. Remembering that I saw something in
Querying and Updating Probabilistic Information in XML
(Serge Abiteboul and Pierre Senellart) We present in this paper a new model for representing probabilistic information in a semi-structured (XML) database, based on the use of probabilistic event variables. This work is motivated by the need of keeping track of both confidence and lineage of the in
IBM Content Manager Integrator for Workplace Forms
(Arthur Choi) Replacing paper with electronic documents brings many advantages to a business: faster processing, concurrent access by multiple people, and the possibility of a single system of record with audit trails. We do a good job when dealing with scanned images and computer-generated document
User Database Query Tool
(KChandos) From time to time programmers come across users who, for whatever reason, seem to actually want to code T-SQL in order to find the information that they need. In an SQL Server environment, a common way to give them this capability is to install the SQL Query Analyzer product. Beginning wi
Improve performance by compressing ViewState
(Bipin Joshi) Developers often worry about performance of their web sites. Every developer wants that his web site be optimized for good performance. There are several factors affecting performance of your web site and one of them is ViewState. In this article I am going to show a way by which you c