(Prashant Patil) Design Patterns can help the designers solve the complex design problems with ease. There are many design patterns for the varying designing issues from the perspective of the object creation, object composition and object behavior.
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How to Backup an SQL Server Database in a Shared Network Location
(Jaya Nehru) If you’re running SQL Server under the Local System account, it will not have rights to backup the database on a network share. You’ll need to change the SQL Server account to perform such a backup.
Web Syndication and the RDF
(Ed Tittel) The notion of Web content has continued expanding, ever since Tim Berners-Lee and the CERN crew began using the earliest versions of HTML in the early 1990s as a handy way to share research results in-house. The boundaries around what a document is, what kinds of information it can deliv
Convert HTML Tags to Lower-case for XHTML Compliance
(Mads Kristensen) The XHTML definition demands all tags to be lower-cased.
Windows Communication Foundation – Part 1
(Thiru Thangarathinam) Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is the latest service execution environment from Microsoft that enables you to seamlessly expose CLR types as services and consume services as CLR types. WCF is a unified programming model that combines the best of breed features from XML
Oracle: On-demand world the future
(China Martens) When it comes to Oracle Corp.’s on-demand software business, the normally outspoken vendor has tended to be somewhat reticent about how it defines both the scope and focus of its operation. Recently, however, the company has begun to talk more openly about software-as-a-service (SaaS
Oracle’s Red Hat support plan could advance grid computing, say experts
(Mark Brunelli) Oracle’s plan to get into the open source Linux operating systems business by offering full support for Red Hat Linux should ultimately have the intended effect of helping to increase the adoption of grid computing architectures, according to IT experts. (R)
CodeSnip: Working with Images Using .NET
(Rajendra Kumar Sahu) Some applications, be it desktop or web, require working with images. Aptly speaking, the good paradigm is banking applications. Withdrawal of an amount of money from a bank account requires signature verification of the account holder. Normally, specimen signatures of custo
Reverse Key Index
(yas) There is an option to create index entries as reversed, which is called reverse key indexes. Oracle stores the index entries as their bytes reversed, except rowids of course.
Database Cloning
(Roger E. Sanders) Have you ever needed a second (or third, or fourth) copy of a production database? Do you know what options are available when it comes to cloning a database? In this column, I’ll explain when you might want to clone a production DB2 database and show you several methods you can u