(Jonathan Keljo) Many diagnostic tools use the CLR Profiling API-even those that aren’t strictly profilers. So if you’ve ever wondered how these tools work, a look at the Profiling API is a good start. In this column, you’ll see how they work and look at some useful tips and tricks. You’ll also find
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Data Surprises – The Hidden Cost of Poor Data
(Fernando Martinez-Campos) After 20 years as a data warehousing practitioner, I’ve seen my share of data quality issues. The vast majority are unexpected and cost extra development time and budget money. Many have harmful impact on the business. Bad data quality has become an unfortunate fact of lif
PostgreSQL 8.2 Closes The Gap
(Sean Michael Kerner) After more than a year of active development, the open source PostgreSQL 8.2 database is now available.
Which AJAX Library Is Right for Me?
(David Talbot) So you want to jump into the AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) development fray, but you don’t want to make the XMLHttpRequest calls directly by writing the XMLHttpRequest code yourself. Then you’ve no doubt noticed the new, freely available AJAX libraries that seem to appear eve
The Basics of Implementing Adapter Objects with PHP
(Alejandro Gervasio) You may have already encountered situations in coding PHP applications in which you would like to use inheritance, but could not for one reason or another. Fortunately, there is an alternative for these situations that can help you achieve the same result. In this first article
Setting up Tivoli Directory Server replication using the command line
(Darshan Donni and Neelam V Kulkarni) The Web Administration tool that ships with the directory server is the easiest way to setup and manage your replication topology. In some situations administrators might need to set up replication using the command line Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LD
PHP and RSS: Getting it together
(Tracy Peterson) RSS Syndication is virtually ubiquitous these days, so it’s imperative that a PHP developer at least understand RSS and how it works. This article explains the basics of RSS, some of its many uses, how to use PHP to create an RSS feed from a database, and how to use the XML_RSS modu
Manage ASP.NET Session variables using the Facade design pattern
(David Hay) Just about every ASP.NET application needs to keep track of data for a user’s session. ASP.NET provides the HttpSessionState class to store session-state values. An instance of the HttpSessionState class for each HTTP request is accessible throughout your application using the static Htt
Building my First SQL Server 2005 CLR
(Greg Larsen) Although Microsoft has always advised us not to use them, if you are like me you still might have found reason to use one or more of the SQL Server 2000 undocumented features. In particular, I built a number of processes that used an undocumented, extended stored procedure (SP) called
Web syndication stuff: The garden of the forking paths around RSS
(Ed Tittel) This is the second tip in an ongoing series on the Web syndication specifications, tools and technologies. In the previous tip, we introduced the general subject of Web syndication and took a look at the Resource Description Framework, or RDF, specification, which this week’s subject – n