(Mahesh Chand) You can print a Crystal Report using print option of Crystal Report Viewer. However, there are occasions when you want your application to print a report direct to printer without viewing the report in Crystal Report Viewer.
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Creating the Admin Script for a PHP/MySQL Blogging System
(Jacques Noah) In this part of the series we will be writing the administration of the blog. The idea is to give the owner of the blog the ability to manage the blog by being able to remove users and articles as required, or to alter the status of users by upgrading them to admin status or banning t
DB2 for z/OS: Data Sharing in a Nutshell
(Paolo Bruni, Mark Anders, KyengDong Park, Mark Rader and Judy Ruby-Brown) DB2 for z/OS takes advantage of data sharing technology in a z Parallel Sysplex to provide applications with full concurrent read and write access to shared DB2 data. Data sharing allows users on multiple DB2 subsystems, memb
JavaScript Object Notation for Ajax Web services
(Daniel Rubio) While Web services continue to be deployed on many corporate applications, a lot of thought continues to go into design issues ranging from reusability to security. Yet what is almost an afterthought is the actual payload structured as XML. After all, it’s XML which provides Web servi
Designing relational tables with subtypes
(Bob Watkins) In an earlier tip, I showed a way to process a table that stored multiple entities in the same table. Let’s take a step back. What should you think about when designing such a table?
Strategies for selecting optimal joins
The optimizer uses various methods to select an optimal join strategy for a query. Among these methods are the following search strategies, which are determined by the optimization class of the query.
Designing and Managing an XML Warehouse
(Xavier Baril and Zohra Bellahsène) Data present on the Web is unstructured, or has incomplete, irregular, or frequently changed structure. XML is becoming the universal data exchange model on the Web. It has been shown that XML is well suited for representing semi-structured data. Compared to HTML,
Managing Data Names, Value Domains, Abbreviations and Definitions
(Michael G. Gorman) What’s in a name? Most commonly, the idea is that a name should convey the essence of the object being named. Sounds simple, and to some degree it is. For example, when you make a reservation on Travelocity for a trip to a distant city you end up with a “Reservation Number.” But
Mastering Ajax, Part 7: Using XML in requests and responses
(Brett McLaughlin) You really can’t do any significant programming today without running across XML. Whether you’re a Web page designer considering the move to XHTML, a Web programmer working with JavaScript, a server-side programmer using deployment descriptors and data binding, or a back-end devel
E-Mail Functionality in SQL Server 2005
(Dinesh Asanka) Sending an e-mail has become very important in any system for purposes such as sending notifications. SQL Server database has an integrated mailing system. With the arrival of SQL Server 2005, users now have the new functionality of Database Mail, which is different from SQL Server 2