(Julia Lerman) Ready to get started with .NET programming? There are two important aspects you’ll need to know. The first is a basic understanding of what the .NET Framework is. The second is where to find great resources. In this article, I simplify the process of getting started with .NET.
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A Security Overview of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals
(Richard Waymire) Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (DB Pro) is the most recent addition to the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Suite of products. The mission of this product is to bring developers of database application code (Transact-SQL for Microsoft SQL Server 20
z/OS Version 1 Release 8 RACF Implementation
(Paul Rogers, Rogerio E. M. Camargo, Gillian Gainsford and Rita Pleus) This release of RACF in z/OS V1.8 continues to deliver industry leadership for security. Improvements that are all intended to help deliver the kind of security-rich environment that has made z/OS an industry leader includes the
Making XML in a Rails App
(Deepak Vohra) Ruby on Rails is a database-based web framework. An XML document may be created and parsed with Ruby on Rails. Rails provides a Ruby library called Builder to generate XML markup. The Builder package contains class Builder::XmlMarkup to generate an XML document. In this article, we wi
Inherent AJAX Security with Java and JSF
(Stephen Maryka) With the popular adoption of AJAX techniques mushrooming on the web today, real-life security issues were sure to follow, as illustrated by the Yamanner and MySpace worms. The debate over AJAX security now rages, with widely differing opinions. Just google “AJAX security” and you wi
ADO.NET for Beginners Part Three
(David Jeavons) Before we start, we will need to create a new database on our SQL Server to work with. The database is called AddressBook and will contain one table with the same basic structure as the Access database used in the previous two articles. At the end of this article is a download link f
Monitor .NET application performance with the CLR Profiler
(Tony Patton) In the .NET Framework, memory management is supposed to be handled automatically by the system. This allows you to concentrate on the important issues of application design and development. Unfortunately, this utopia has not been completely realized as memory issues still appear in .NE
Using Indexed Computed Columns to Improve Performance
(graz) I recently read a blog post on doing case-insensitive text searches on SQL Server 2005. The post said that an index on a computed column might be used even if the computed column itself wasn’t used in the WHERE clause. I was curious to test that and see how far I might take it. Years ago I wo
Automate the process of trimming table data in SQL Server 2005
(Arthur Fuller) A friend and colleague recently faced an interesting problem. Each month he receives a huge amount of data from a client, which he then must massage before it’s usable. The tables contain millions of rows, and the structure of the tables may vary from month to month. To make matters
Identifying Server Consolidation Opportunities
(Andrew Hillier) Over the past 20 years, the IT infrastructures of most organizations have moved away from a reliance on centralized computing power toward distributed systems.