(Mike McIntyre) The TryCast keyword, introduced in Visual Basic 2005, provides Visual Basic programmers with a new way to cast reference types.
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Display Local Weather Data On Your Site
(Andrew Mooney) The weather affects all of us in many ways. For example, the weather helps us to decide what type of clothing to weather, whether or not to carry an umbrella, and even how much time we might want to spend outside. Or, a storm might interrupt power making it difficult to keep our PC r
Full-text searches in natural language
(Il Corra) Answering yesterday to some newsgroup question about MySQL I have answered about the problem of the full-text searches in natural language.
Submitting to a Database (via Web Services) in InfoPath Forms Services
(Forrest Dillaway) If you’ve ever designed and deployed a form that will be frequently used or require significant data analysis, you have probably looked into maintaining data in a SQL database. With InfoPath 2003 and the InfoPath 2007 rich client, you get what you expect. You create a main datab
Using collections in WebSphere Service Registry and Repository to resolve versioned imports, Part 1: Creating and managing versioned documents
(Bernard Z. Kufluk and Ian Heritage) IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V6 (hereafter referred to as Service Registry and Repository) is an industrial-strength tool that helps you achieve more business value from your service-oriented architecture (SOA) by enabling better management and g
Invalid GROUP BY queries
(Rudy Limeback) I have a single (Oracle 9i) table which captures events with the following columns: Source (VARCHAR) Event (VARCHAR) Time_Of_Event (timestamp) a number of other detail columns, call them Detail1, Detail2, etc. (R)
XForms in Firefox
(Elliotte Rusty Harold) XForms makes development of Web-deployed applications faster and easier. XForms’ clean architecture makes applications more robust, more scalable, faster, and more secure. Except for one little detail, developing with XForms would be a no-brainer. That detail is that no curre
IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Dynamic routing improvements in WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V6.0.2
(Greg Flurry) In this article, I’ll tell you about at the dynamic endpoint mechanism available in WebSphere ESB V6.0.2 (WebSphere ESB) and how you can use it. I’ll also show you how to use mediation primitives, new in Version 6, to support two different forms of endpoint resolution that you can use
How to calculate table checksums in MySQL
(Xaprb) MySQL has no built-in functionality to calculate a table’s checksum in any storage engine but MyISAM. Table checksums can confirm that two tables are identical — useful to verify a slave server is in sync with its master (see my article on reliable MySQL replication for more). Fortunately, i
Database Documentation Using SQL Doc
(Robert Chipperfield) In a recent article describing Red Gate’s SQL Refactor tool, András Belokosztolszki, observed that it is rare for a developer or DBA to work with a database that they also designed. It is much more common that they are required to work on established databases that have been bu