(Dratz) What is SQL, how is it pronounced, and where did it come from?
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SQL Developer Reports: Sneak Peak 2
(Sue Harper) More in the Sneak Peak series…I’ll try to alternate with current and next release blog entries, so that you are not frustrated by future features. As the last entry was on running files in SQL Developer today, it means this entry is a piece about what’s coming down the line. (It’s mos
Using XSLT to Fix Swing
(Dave Horlick) Swing is a Java framework for building cross-platform graphical user interfaces. Many areas of the framework have recently enjoyed some compelling improvements. The portion that renders HTML hasn’t been so lucky. When Swing debuted, HTML was at a youthful version 3.2, and practices su
What Is XSL?
(Jim Pretin) Remember the good old days, when the internet consisted of nothing more than a few simple websites formatted in basic HTML? Web design was so easy.
Preparing for and Tuning the SQL Query Engine on DB2 Universal Database for iSeries on DB2 for i5/OS
(Hernando Bedoya, Monti Abrahams, Nicolas Bueso, Luis Guirigay, Sabine Jordan, Dave Martin, Barry Thorn, Steve Tlusty and JaeHee Yang) DB2 Universal Database (UDB) for iSeries is deeply rooted in the architecture and heritage of the AS/400 and its predecessor, System/38 . The IBM iSeries server has
DB2 9 DBA exam 731 prep, Part 7: High availability: Split mirroring and HADR
(Michael Dang and Sylvia Qi) This is the last in a series of seven tutorials to help you prepare for the DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Database Administration (Exam 731). This tutorial focuses on two advanced high availability topics: split mirroring and high availability disaster recovery (HAD
Xtended TextBox
(Venkat Eswaran) Whether it is a web application or a windows application textbox is the most widely used control. The masked textbox is available for windows forms. But we dont have one for ASP.NET. So I decided to write one for ASP.NET. Using Extended TextBox control will save a lot of time for de
Using C# and VB.NET classes together in the App_Code folder
(Bipin Joshi) In ASP.NET 2.0 you can mix web forms coded in C# and VB.NET together in a single web site. This works great for web forms. However what if you want to code classes from App_Code folder in different languages? Such mixing of classes coded in different languages is not allowed with defau
Improve Your Search Engine Ranking with AJAX
(Ivan Pepelnjak) Many well-designed web sites contain significant amounts of navigational information together with the actual content. The HTML markup used for navigation can impact your search engine ranking as well as increase the page download time experienced by your visitors. In this article,
Tutorial 1: Creating a Data Access Layer
(Scott Mitchell) As Web developers, our lives revolve around working with data. We create databases to store the data, code to retrieve and modify it, and web pages to collect and summarize it. This is the first tutorial in a lengthy series that will explore techniques for implementing these common