(Wim Martens and Joachim Niehren) Automata for unranked trees form a foundation for XML schemas, querying and pattern languages. We study the problem of efficiently minimizing such automata. First, we study unranked tree automata that are standard in database theory, assuming bottom-up determinism
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Jazz Up Your Data Using Custom Report Items In SQL Server Reporting Services
(Teo Lachev) When it comes to presenting information these days, a picture may be worth a lot more than a thousand words. And even though SQL Server™ Reporting Services does provide charting capabilities, some are not up to the task. For example, you may need to render the value or the trend of a ke
Speed Up with Project Templates Using Visual Studio 2005 – Part 3
(Ameet Phadnis) In my previous article entitled “Speed Up with Project Templates Using Visual Studio 2005 – Part 2,” I dealt with how you can create Project Templates with the export template wizard. In that article I did mention the IWizard interface and how it could be used to perform some prelim
Converting Projects from Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2005
(plmanabhan) This article is intended for most Microsoft development shops using the standard MS technology. It discusses the considerations that need to be taken into account when migrating existing VS2003 applications to VS2005. These considerations would include: –The strategy to take, in ter
Caching Part III (Fragment Caching)
(Abey George) Fragment caching comes in handy when you have a page which contains dynamic contents as well as static contents. This enables you to break your page into separate segments that can be cached individually. Fragment caching is very similar to output caching. You call it in the same way a
Generate JSON from XML to use with Ajax
(Jack D. Herrington) A couple of years ago, many developers bet their futures on XML, XSLT, Extensible HTML (XHTML), and a host of tag-based “X” languages. Now, the new rage is Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), and investors’ eyes are turning toward data-driven Rich Internet Applications that
Self Tuning Memory Manager
(Chris Eaton) I’m going to do a series of postings on another new feature in DB2 9 called Self Tuning Memory Manager (STMM). I’ll make it a few posts since there is too much info for just one posting.
Simplify PL/SQL INDEX BY tables using text subscripts
(Bob Watkins) Associative arrays, formerly called INDEX BY tables, have been a feature of the PL/SQL language since version 2. They are sparse arrays, meaning that only the elements you load into them are stored. No space is reserved for in-between index values. One of their original limitations, ho
C# MySQL Profile Provider for .NET 2.0
(Edacio) I did not write the profile provider from scratch. I used a sample MS Access profile provider from the Microsoft SDK, and modified it to work with MySQL and the membership provider from the article mentioned below.
Invoice Management in a PHP Invoicing System
(Leidago) If you’re running a business in which you’re invoicing clients, you need some way to keep track of which invoices have gone out and which clients have paid. In this second article of a four-part series that covers the creation of a PHP invoicing system, we create the parts that deal with t