(Dejan Sunderic) Triggers are a unique type of procedure. They are very similar to events—a type of procedure in certain programming languages such as Visual Basic. Events in Visual Basic are initiated by the system when certain actions occur (for instance, a form is loaded, a text box receives focu
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Implementing Draggable User controls in ASP.NET
(Ashish Patel) User controls are an excellent feature in ASP.NET. With a little effort, you can add many cool features to them and apply these features every time the user control is used. In this article, we discuss how to implement draggable user controls using ASP.NET.
Trial: DB2 Enterprise 9
Download a free trial version of IBM DB2 Enterprise 9. DB2 9 is the result of a five-year development project that transformed traditional (static) database technology into an interactive data server that merges the high performance and ease of use of DB2 with the self-describing benefits of XML. DB
Informix Dynamic Server locking, Part 1: Understand locking behavior and analyze locking conflicts in IDS
(Eric Herber) This is the first of a two-part article series talking about locking mechanisms in IBM’s strategic data server, Informix Dynamic Server (IDS). IDS is an optimal choice for high-end online transaction processing (OLTP) and embedded solutions. This article helps you to understand locking
Oracle RAC Administration – Part 4: Administering the Clusterware: Components
(Tarry Singh) I have a Google alert running for Oracle RAC and besides pulling the regular vendor offerings, I receive a lot of alerts on how often Oracle RAC is being adopted into the enterprise. I mentioned commoditization in my previous article, but there are a lot of pressures and several odd an
Boxing and Unboxing in .NET
(Sandeep Acharya) This article deals with the boxing and unboxing in Microsoft .NET. It is a fact that in our daily coding standards we usually forget to keep track of these things, but each developer should know what it means and that the proper use of this will definitely lead to a powerful appli
PATROL for sap , initial impressions
(Omer Brandis) In the last few weeks , I got the chance to work with PATROL central 7.5 and its solutions for SAP (PATROL central is a monitoring tool from BMC).
Challenges in backing up large databases
(Brian Peasland) What are the challenges that we should be ready to address when devising a backup and recovery strategy for large databases, typically 10 TB or larger in size? What is the best way to overcome these challenges? (R)
Database Geek of the Week: Kirk Haselden
(Douglas Reilly) Kirk Haselden is the development manager for the SQL Server Integration Services Team at Microsoft. Kirk is also the author of the recently-published book, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services.
Harden code to prevent SQL injection
(Kevin Beaver) Never trust user input — it’s a cornerstone of secure coding, right? True, but why is SQL injection still occurring? Isn’t everyone validating all user input these days? If it were only that simple! The fact is given the complexities of your applications and the time crunch to releas