(Sue Cooney) This white paper highlights the new features of SQL Server 2005, including the user interface and the architecture changes, and compares this latest version with SQL Server 2000. (R)
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Oracle Application Express Helps Build Web Applications Quickly
(Noel Yuhanna) A lesser-known but powerful application development tool that comes freely bundled with an Oracle DBMS is Oracle Application Express. Over the past year, the adoption of Oracle Application Express has increased twofold mainly because it is easy to use, saves money when consolidating s
Resources and Localization in ASP.NET 2.0
(Ted Pattison) In my last column I discussed the use of resource files in .NET development. I internationalized a Windows Forms application and localized it for users who speak and read different languages. This month I’ll discuss the localization of Web sites in ASP.NET 2.0.
Binary File Access in the .NET Framework
(Peter Aitken) Before you can read or write a binary file, you must open it, which means creating a FileStream object associated with the file.
DB2 9 DBA exam 731 prep, Part 4: Monitoring DB2 activity
(Roger E. Sanders) This tutorial introduces you to the set of monitoring tools that are available with DB2 9 and to show you how each are used to monitor how well (or how poorly) your database system is operating. This is the fourth tutorial in a series of seven that you can use to help prepare for
Multilevel Nested Master/Detail Data Display Using GridView
(G. Mohyuddin) This article presents how the GridView control can be nested to show master/detail relationships for multilevel hierarchal data. In this article, I have implemented it for three levels, and it can be implemented for n levels quite easily, by maintaining the information about the edit
Creating a Simple Configuration Section Handler Using ASP.NET 2.0
(Jason N. Gaylord) In ASP.NET 1.x it was fairly difficult to create a custom configuration section in ASP.NET 2.0. Many enterprise applications then relied upon the AppSettings section, saving the configuration in an XML file or storing the settings in another data medium. Microsoft recognized this
SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005 may temporarily stop responding on a Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1-based computer
If you run Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1)-based computer, SQL Server may temporarily stop responding (hang) in certain cases. Depending on the severity of the problem, this behavior may take from several milliseconds to
Date Ranges
(Galina Petrenko) This code gives date ranges for the start-end of the week, regardless of the NLS setting for the system.
Power your mashups with XQuery
(Ning Yan) Web 2.0 applications, which offer users a more dynamic experience, often use Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax). Once you load a master HTML document, you can use Ajax to update Web content without refreshing the whole Web page. With Ajax, you can treat Web content as data fragments,