(John Peterson) If you’ve been wanting to leverage the power of AJAX in your ASP.NET Web applications, but aren’t a client-side Javascript and XML guru, the moment you’ve been waiting for is finally here. Microsoft just recently released version 1.0 of the “Atlas” project, calling it simply ASP.NET
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Blogging at Work With Lotus Notes
(John Roling) Over the past couple of years, we all know the use of blogs on the Internet has skyrocketed. People have been creating personal web logs to discuss everything from politics, to technology, to what their favorite reality show contestant did last night. Until the past year, blogs have ge
Delivering Next Generation User Interfaces for Business Intelligence Using AJAX
(Rado Kotorov and Diane Sklar) This paper explains why Information Builders chose to use a component-based AJAX architecture for its new report and graph authoring solution – WebFOCUS Power Painter. The first section puts AJAX in the context of the emerging Web 2.0 technologies. The second section f
Last week I mentioned an article on DFSORT
(Willie Favero) This week I want to remind all of my friends moving to DB2 Version 8 that the DB2 Utilities use DFSORT, regardless of what sort product you might own. Because of this change it is imperative that you visit the two informational APARs available that discuss this new requirement and ex
Getting use of Slave in MySQL Replication
(Peter Zaitsev) MySQL Replication is asynchronous which causes problems if you would like to use MySQL Slave as it can contain stale data. It is true delay is often insignificant but in times of heavy load or in case you was running some heavy queries on the master which not take time to replicate t
DB2 9 Application Development exam 733 prep, Part 4: Embedded SQL programming
(Roger E. Sanders) This tutorial introduces you to embedded SQL programming and walks you through how to construct an embedded SQL application. This tutorial introduces the process for converting one or more high-level programming language source code files containing embedded SQL into an executable
High-availability architecture and clusters (Sample Chapter)
(K. Gopalakrishnan) In today’s super-fast world, data and application availability can make or break a business. With access to these businesses granted via the ubiquitous and “always-on” Internet, data availability is an extremely important component in any business function. (R)
SQL Server 2005 Command Line Tool ‘SQLCMD’ – Part II
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) In Part I we saw a few ways of using the SQL Server 2005 SQLCMD command line utility. In Part II of this article, I illustrate how to use transact SQL files and generate output.
Data Analytics: A Huge Opportunity
(Stephen Gallagher) For years, the writers of columns like this one have been tantalizing data management (DM) and marketing professionals alike with visions of a future in which personalized, relevant, context-sensitive marketing messages are delivered electronically to specific individuals. The re
Plan to upgrade XSLT 1.0 to 2.0, Part 4: The toolkit for XSLT portability
(David Marston and Joanne Tong) If you are concerned with the adoption of XSLT 2.0 and what will happen to your legacy stylesheet code, this is the article you need. It focuses on those features of 2.0 that address cross-version compatibility with 1.0. It explains how 1.0 and 2.0 processors recogniz