(Christo Kutrovsky) Many people would like to know how well their application will run in RAC. Would it be faster or slower? Would it run at all?
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Explore ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part Infrastructure
(Sahil Malik) Web applications today do a number of things. A Web site could be a banking site, a content management system, or a news center. In spite of this diversity, it almost always makes sense to break a Web page into smaller, reusable widgets that you can share in any other part of the site
Building dashboards with IBM Workplace Dashboard Framework
(Kranti A Zond) IBM Workplace Dashboard Framework is a powerful and flexible tool that allows you to quickly build active dashboard portlets to improve business decision-making and productivity. Workplace Dashboard Framework integrates with IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory; together they provide featur
Optimized Presentation of XML Content
(Ivan Pepelnjak) The internal representation of static web site content or dynamic data displayed on a web site is increasingly stored in XML format due to ever-widening support of XML in scripting languages, web browsers, and SQL databases. Before this semantically structured data is presented to t
Advanced MySQL user variable techniques
(Xaprb) MySQL’s user variables have interesting properties that enable the useful techniques I wrote about in recent articles. One property is that you can read from and assign to a user variable simultaneously, because an assignment can an r-value (the result of the assignment is the final value of
Stored Procedures in SQL Server
(Mike Chapple) Microsoft SQL Server provides the stored procedure mechanism to simplify the database development process by grouping Transact-SQL statements into manageable blocks.
How to order SIBLINGS in Oracle hierarchy queries
(Bob Watkins) Oracle’s START WITH and CONNECT BY clauses in the SELECT statement automatically traverse a hierarchy. Without this feature, a complex self-join would be required to identify which rows are logically related to others. The START WITH clause identifies the row or rows to be considered t
ASP.NET 2.0: Asynchronous Pages
(Mads Kristensen) In ASP.NET 2.0 it is now possible to create asynchronous pages in a very simple and easy way.
Developing with Apache Derby — Hitting the Trifecta: Java database development with Apache Derby, Part 1
(Robert Brunner) Previously, the articles in this series have demonstrated a number of database concepts by using the ij tool to connect and interact with an Apache Derby database. Although it may not have been obvious at the time, you were using a Java application that used the JDBC application pro
Implement XML serialization in the .NET Framework
(Zach Smith) Serialization is the act of saving an object to a storage medium or transforming the object so that it may be sent across a network. After an object is serialized, you will want to deserialize it which is the act of turning the data back into a usable object. This type of functionality