(Craig Mullins) Here is another Q+A exchange that I thought might be useful to share with everyone here on the blog: QUESTION: Could you please explain the difference between a package and a plan, the process of precompilation, compilation and running a COBOL DB2 program as well as a COBOL CICS D
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Recipes for Creating a Managed Standby with RMAN
(Paul Moen) Today I created safety nets — redundant databases in the form of managed standbys.
Oracle Apps 11i Public Access
(Lewis Cunningham) Joel, over at the Apps Traction Blog, just posted an entry, Free access to Oracle Vision instances. That entry includes a link to a site that offers publicly accessible instances of 11i. The site also includes free tools, checklists and and documentation.
RSS’ Security Deadline
(Jim Rapoza) As we here at eWEEK Labs evaluate the next generation of Web browsers, operating systems, collaboration tools and other interactive applications, one feature keeps popping up again and again—namely, integration with RSS feeds.
IDbDataParameter error in .NET
(René Paw Christensen) I wanted to update a project of mine, which eases database access using Generics, Attributes and Reflections. My original project used database classes like SqlConnection, SqlCommand and SqlDataReader, but to support more database types (MS SQL, MS MDB and MS SDF) I needed to
Maintain Control State in ASP.NET 2.0
(Scott Lysle) This article describes a simple approach to maintaining control state in an ASP.NET 2.0 custom web control. Control state is a new construct within ASP.NET 2.0 and it is really nothing more than view state however it is view state with a significant advantage; that advantage is that o
Gaining Control Over the Visual Studio 2005 Toolbox
(John Mueller) For many developers, the Visual Studio 2005 toolbox contains a set of familiar controls—and then there are those controls that you might want to try, but never seem to find time to do it. The odd thing is that developers have requested these controls, and even occasionally ordered the
Creating Custom Cache Dependency
(Bipin Joshi) ASP.NET 2.0 offers you several ways to set a dependency between a cached item and a file(s), another cached item(s) or SQL Server database table. No doubt they satisfy most of the real world needs. However, at times the features offered by these dependencies are not sufficient. In such
Introduction to MySQL
(Michael S. Hines) Performance Analysts and Capacity Planners catalog and retrieve lots of data – cpu time busy, memory use, disk space use, disk subsystems performance, tape use, tape subsystem performance, network use, and network subsystem performance is just a short list. We frequently ‘throw th
SQL Server 2005 Large Value Data Types
(Gregory A. Larsen) If your application has fields where users key in long free form text strings, then you probably have been storing the data entered in a text column within SQL Server. Storing data in text columns was your only option in SQL Server 2000 for any field that might exceed 8000 bytes