(Ed Tittel) In my current series of XML tips, we’ve been looking at various markup languages, tools and technologies related to syndication, including various forms of RSS, Atom and even RDF. In today’s tip, we’ll take a look a one particular type of syndicated content—namely podcasting—that has bec
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How And Why AJAX, Not Java, Became the Favored Technology for RIAs
(Bruce Eckel) Several of Bruce Tate’s books focused on the flaws in Java and the need to let go of some of the ideas that haven’t worked out. And blogs like this and this have been appearing more frequently. And of course there’s Steve Jobs now-famous quote (referring to the iPhone): “Java’s not wor
MySQL’s FEDERATED storage engine: Part 2
(Xaprb) In part 1 of this series I examined the behavior of MySQL’s FEDERATED storage engine by running queries with the general query log enabled on the remote server. In this article I take a higher-level view. I summarize my findings from the first article, then give my thoughts on the engine’s s
Use Service Broker Internal Activation in SQL Server 2005
(Tim Chapman) In previous articles, I covered the theory behind message-based systems and introduced the components of Service Broker, the new feature in SQL Server 2005 for building asynchronous messaging applications in the database engine. In this article, I walk you through the process of buildi
Consuming Web Service Using ASP.NET AJAX
(Bipin Joshi) ASP.NET AJAX provides the power of asynchronous JavaScript and XML to your web sites. AJAX makes web pages more responsive and interactive by reducing page refreshes or postbacks. It harnesses the power of client-side JavaScript and the XML HTTP object to provide these features.
Search DB2 Information Center right from your browser’s search bar
(Leon Katsnelson) DB2 Information Center is an invaluable resource for information on all things DB2. It is available on the web at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9/index.jsp (this is a URL for DB2 9 information center). Another option is to install it on your own machine or on som
Increasing productivity with TOAD for Oracle
(Sreeram Surapaneni) As a Production or Development DBA, we’d better know all the syntax of the command line interface (CLI) utilities whether it is sqlplus or old srvrmgr, which Oracle no longer supports. Moreover, command line interfaces are easy and certain. Oracle has command line interface tool
ASP.NET Controls – The Bridge between Client and Server-Side
(Nuno M. F. Gomes) In my previous article I talked about attributes ‘name’ and ‘id’ length and why their size can easily grow. In this article I will focus my attention answering “Why they are rendered and what are their roles in ASP.NET?”.
Making MySQL Replication Parallel
(Peter Zaitsev) Kevin Burton writes about making MySQL Replication Parallel. Many of us have been beaten by the fact MySQL Replication is single threaded so in reality it is only able to use only single CPU and single disk effectively which is getting worse and worse as computers are getting “wider”
Hash Warning SQL Profiler Event
(Steve Herbert) One of the less well-known warning events that is logged to SQL Profiler trace is the Hash Warning event. Hash Warning events are fired when a hash recursion or hash bailout has occurred during a hashing operation. Both of these situations are less than desirable, as they mean that