(Ziran Sun) Navigation is important to a web site. You can have the best information in the world on your site, but if people can’t find it, then what good is it to them? Keeping users aware of their location on your site and making it easy for them to move around are key usability issues, but until
Author: SSWUG Research
I Never Metafile I Didn’t Like
(Peter Aitken) A metafile is one of the two fundamental ways that a graphics image can be stored. The other, which most people are more familiar with, is a bitmap in which the image is defined as a grid of pixels with each pixel having a color value. Most graphics files that you work with, including
When Snapshot Isolation Helps and When It Hurts
(Alexander Kuznetsov) You know SQL Server 2005’s new snapshot isolation feature can help you reduce lock contention and deadlocks, but did you know that it also can help you fix intermittent errors in reports and detect lost updates? You know that snapshot isolation requires some effort from your DB
Managing Hierarchical Data in MySQL
Most users at one time or another have dealt with hierarchical data in a SQL database and no doubt learned that the management of hierarchical data is not what a relational database is intended for. The tables of a relational database are not hierarchical (like XML), but are simply a flat list. Hier
A script to check for the existence of data in tables or views
(Louis Davidson) This is the second time I have needed this, so that elevates it to blog status (code for mine and your reuse being the second most important reason I blog. The most important one is the notoriety, glamour, and big bucks 🙂
Retrieve and Use Data from Double-Clicked DataGridView Row
(Mike McIntyre) This article and source code demonstrates how to retrieve the data bound to a Windows Forms DataGridView control row when a user double-clicks a row header.
Working with Master Page in ASP.NET 2.0
(Prabakar Samiyappan) The Master page is like that of the inherited form in Windows.NET. It is nothing but when you want to get the common look and feel of the particular part of your web we can go for master page.
String searching and manipulation made easy
(Robyn Page) Well, it seems that my first workbench on the use of dates and times in SQL Server was well-received. I’d like to thank everyone for their input and feedback.
Event processing performance
(Philip Howard) The march of the big guns into event processing continues. Microsoft, SAS and Sybase have all got point solutions that address this space in one way or another, while it may have escaped your notice that IBM has now got two offerings in this area.
Mastering Ajax, Part 8: Using XML in requests and responses
(Brett McLaughlin) I don’t really enjoy writing articles that are primarily about something that you shouldn’t do. Most of the time, it’s a pretty silly type of thing to write. I spend half an article explaining something, just so I can spend the rest of the article explaining what a bad idea it is