(Samudra Gupta) The Summer 2006 release of the EJB 3.0 specification delivers a much simplified but more powerful EJB framework that demonstrates a marked preference for annotations over traditional EJB 2.x deployment descriptors. Annotations, introduced in J2SE 5.0, are modifiers that can be used i
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Best Practices for Setting Up a CommonStore solution Mailbox management, retention and discovery solution
(Wei-Dong Zhu, Satya Bhamidipati, Elena Bogdanova, Toralf Gerstaecker, Ryan Lott and Donald Wilcox) In today’s business environment, e-mail has become one of the most commonly used form of corporate communication. It is one of the core tool to conduct business transactions and it generates a signifi
A Few SQL Tips and Techniques
(Craig S. Mullins) It is always a good idea to keep your bag of SQL tricks filled with techniques to help you deal with troubling application development problems. Hopefully you will find something useful in the ensuing sections as you build your DB2 applications.
Building the ListBoxesFT_C ASP.NET Web User Control in Visual Studio 2005: Part I
(Michael Livshitz) I am sure , that if you are a developer who works for a ASP.NET “big project” (I mean a project that includes at least more than ten web forms), from time to time you need to create some Web server control that has functionality and interface not provided by the standard ASP.NET
10 tips for sorting, grouping, and summarizing SQL data
(Susan Harkins) Arranging SQL data so that you can effectively analyze it requires an understanding of how to use certain SQL clauses and operators. These tips will help you figure out how to build statements that will give you the results you want.
Microsoft Enters the ORM Space with LINQ
(Bob Reselman) Object relational mapping (ORM) products have been one area in which Microsoft has had a dearth of offerings. However, with the introduction of LINQ (.NET Language Integrated Query), this has changed.
Error message when you try to change the SQL Server Agent proxy account in SQL Server 2000: ‘The system cannot find the path specified’
Consider the following scenario. In Microsoft SQL Server 2000, you try to change the SQL Server Agent proxy account by using SQL Server Enterprise Manager or by using the xp_sqlagent_proxy_account system stored procedure. In this scenario, you may receive the following error message: The system c
Index Build strategy in SQL Server – Introduction (I)
(Lyudmila Fokina) Index Build strategy in SQL Server may vary depending on users needs. Each of these Index Build strategies may have different memory and disc space requirement. These different strategies will be discussed in the next several posts.
Display MS Excel Sheet and Chart in Aspx Page in C#
(Gnanandam Gopalan) The purpose of this article is to show how to display the exact values in an Excel sheet, with its comments, in an aspx page. The code-behind file is in C#. The method shown here helps to display an Excel sheet with its formatting including the font, color, alignment etc. This wi
Introduction to annotated XML schema decomposition using the DB2 Visual Studio 2005 Add-in
(Farzad Farahbod) The annotated XML schema decomposition feature introduced in DB2 9, can be used to decompose entire, or fragments of, XML documents into relational tables. DB2 9 XML shredding technology uses annotations in XML schema as the mapping language to map information in an XML document to