(Alejandro Gervasio) The strategy design pattern is applied much more often than you might think, so if you want to find out how to implement it with PHP 5, this article should guide you through the whole learning process. Welcome to the final installment of the series that began with “Introducing t
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Enhance your SQL Server security skills with five quick steps
(Kevin Beaver) Keeping your skills sharp is an essential requirement for a successful IT career. As a DBA or network administrator responsible for SQL Server, you obviously have to stay on top of the latest features Microsoft delivers, know how to manage Windows servers and keep current, not only
Writing to Word from SQL Server
(Phil Factor) Having helped Robyn with her Excel Workbench, I couldn’t get out of my head the idea of achieving the same effect with MS Word. After all, from the data viewpoint, MS Word documents are just a series of paragraphs and tables aren’t they? Surely, it should be easy to read and write data
Importing XML Files into Access 2007
(Jayaram Krishnaswamy) In an earlier article on Access 2003, importing an XML file into the Access application was described. It was shown that, while exporting data from a table was easier, importing an XML file was not straightforward. In this tutorial an XML file will be imported into Microsoft A
Enterprise Decision Management’s Business Impact
(James Taylor) Enterprise decision management (EDM), the automation and improvement of operational business decisions to improve their precision, consistency and agility, is on the rise. Using a combination of business rules and predictive analytic technologies and focusing on the operational decisi
Ready for DB2 9? Here’s an open APAR that you may want to keep an eye on
(Willie Favero) Yesterday I posted that DB2 9 for z/OS will be generally available (GA) on March 16, 2007 ( “DB2 9 for z/OS General Availability (GA) Date Announced”). Well, I came across this open APAR that will distribute the premigration health check jobs. Once closed, the PTF will give you a set
Troubleshooting Session Related Issues in ASP.NET
(Rahul Soni) Honestly speaking, since everything works fine most of the time, we never really bother to think about it in detail. When a session loss issue happens on your happy website (for example your customer added 25 items in his cart and when he proceeded to check out he was redirected to the
Native XML in Relational Databases – Oracle XMLDB on Oracle 10g
(Edmon Begoli) Now continuing on my series of recommended technologies, specifically Native XML in relational databases. In this entry I will provide a closer look at Oracle 10g’s support for Native XML, or how they call it “XMLDB”.
Going native: Use cases for native XML databases
(Ronald Bourret) When native XML databases appeared on the heels of the XML 1.0 recommendation, most people weren’t sure what to make of them. Were they a replacement for relational databases or a return to hierarchical databases? No, said the vendors. They were designed to manage large numbers of X
Developing DB2 9 Pure XML Applications Using TOAD for DB2
(Vitor Rodrigues) Using the Silver Castles analogy described and developed in the article “Use DB2 Native XML with PHP”, from Hardeep Sing and Amir Malik. The goal of this demonstration is to illustrate the different database environments and their impact on the application code by performing a sid