(Matt Haynos) There are many technologies that comprise grid computing. Organizations often struggle to integrate and deploy the various technologies. IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment, however, is an example of an integrated grid platform for virtualizing and managing Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Ed
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Oracle January 2007 CPU Initial Thoughts
Oracle has released the January 2007 Critical Patch Update (CPU). A major change for this quarter’s CPU was the release of a pre-announcement on January 11th giving an overview of the products patches and a summary of the vulnerabilities. On the surface, the pre-announcement looked pretty bad with
ADO.NET vNext Part 3: Querying with LINQ
(Thiru Thangarathinam) The previous article in this series introduced the core concepts of Object Services Layer, including the steps to perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) operations against the Entity Data Model (EDM). With that foundation, this installment focuses on using LINQ to quer
Regular Expressions Make Pattern Matching And Data Extraction Easier
(David Banister) Although T-SQL is extremely powerful for most data processing, it provides little support for text analysis or manipulation. Attempting to perform any sophisticated text analysis using the built-in string functions results in massively large functions and stored procedures that are
ORA-600 error after full backup
(Brian Peasland) At present I have a strange problem with RMAN. I recently upgraded a database from 9i to 10g. My RMAN is also 10g. When I do a full backup, at the end of the backup I get an ORA-600 error. However when I do the recovery drill it works fine. I am pretty confused — any pointers? (R
VB.NET-XML based Dynamic Menu Component using Recursion Technique
(Sundar Kasthuri) In this article, we will see how to generate Dynamic Menus (using recursion) in VB.net based on the XML data which has the complete details about the Menu like Menu Caption and the corresponding Event it has to trigger whenever the user clicks a Menu Item etc., It’s a generalized r
Reminiscing with the DB2 catalog and directory
(Willie Favero) Do you know what the most important group of page sets are in all of DB2? More important than you most critical production table space? Yup, you guessed it; DB2’s catalog and directory.
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Regular Expression Based Token Replacement in ASP.NET
(Damon Armstrong) In my last article, I covered a technique for Token Replacement in ASP.NET, which works from anywhere in your application. Simply put, token replacement is a matter of searching through a string for a token and replacing it with a value of your choice. All of the code for making th
Saving InfoPath Forms to SQL Server 2005 as XML
(S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton) Microsoft SQL Server 2005 introduced a new data type, the XML data type. Now you can associate an XML schema with XML table columns to force them to adhere to constraints defined within the specified schema. Such XML table columns are ideal to save InfoPath forms in, since InfoPa