(Irina Medvinskaya) There are situations that require developers to prohibit users for moving a particular form. This may be required whenever you feel that the users need to fill out some data before proceeding or moving the form to work with some other application form.
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InnoDB vs MyISAM vs Falcon benchmarks – part 1
(Vadim Tkachenko) Several days ago MySQL AB made new storage engine Falcon available for wide auditory. We cannot miss this event and executed several benchmarks to see how Falcon performs in comparison to InnoDB and MyISAM. The second goal of benchmark was a popular myth that MyISAM is faster than
XML Matters: Ajax tradeoffs: The many flavors of XML
(Dethe Elza and David Mertz) Ajax stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML and the idea is that with modern Web browsers you can, with acceptable reliability, keep a channel open to the server to pass data back and forth as your Web application is used. This contrasts with standard Web techniques
Exporting DB2/400 Dates to Excel
(Jeff Haddix) In order for Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet to recognize the set of values for a column as dates, those values must be stored as a number of days. For example, to export the date December 26, 2006, to an Excel spreadsheet, you should export the number 37,066, not a date value like 12/26
Oracle Critical Patch Update Pre-Release Announcement – January 2007
This Critical Patch Update Pre-Release Announcement provides advance information about the Oracle Critical Patch Update for January 2007 which will be released on Tuesday, 16 January 2007. While this Pre-Release Announcement is as accurate as possible at the time of publication, the information it c
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Nornalization with Entity Relationship Diagramming
(Rajeev Kuala) Entity relationship diagram (ERD) is one of the most widely used technique for data modeling. An ERD developed during the conceptual data modeling phase of the database development process is generally transformed and enhanced through normalization principles during the logical databa
D.I.Y. MySQL 5.1 monitoring
(Guy Harrison) I wrote recently about using events and the new processlist table in MySQL 5.1 to keep track of the number of connected processes. Although having the PROCESSLIST available as an INFORMATION SCHEMA table is usefull, it seemed to me that having SHOW GLOBAL STATUS exposed in a similar
XForms tip: Use XForms to upload a file to PHP
(Tyler Anderson) Uploading files is a fairly common task using HTML forms, but how do you do it in XForms, where the data gets stored as part of an XML document? This tip explains how to create an XForms form that enables the user to upload a file, and it explains how to create a PHP script that sav
ASP.NET: Is it really this easy? Yes!
(Alex Homer and Dave Sussman) In the previous chapter, you saw how ASP.NET 2.0 contains a raft of new features that reduce the code you need to write and save you time and effort when building dynamic and interactive Web pages and applications. To further illustrate this, and so that you get a bette