(Bruce Perry) If you are a Java software and Ajax developer, chances are the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) has already grabbed your attention.
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Accessing the Registry with VB6 and VB.NET
(Hannes du Preez) Storing and retrieving information from the Windows Registry will play a major part in any programmer’s life. You can store small bits of information, such as recently used files, form sizes and location, and user preferences—to name just a few—in the Windows Registry. My aim with
Data Protection for LAMP Applications
(Paddy Sreenivasan) The number of web and enterprise applications based on the LAMP application stack is growing. LAMP applications use Linux or BSD as the operating system, Apache as the web server, MySQL or PostgreSQL as the application database, and PHP, Perl, or Python as the programming languag
Working with the Actions Pane in Visual Studio Tools for Office
(Eric Carter and Eric Lippert) This chapter covers the ActionsPane control in VSTO and how it enables custom UI in Office’s Document Actions task pane. It also examines the properties, methods, and events unique to the ActionsPane control. You will also learn the basic architecture of ActionPane and
Partial backup options in SQL Server 2005
(Serdar Yegulalp) In SQL Server 2005, I have been especially intrigued by the backup and restore enhancements because I run a remotely-hosted SQL Server with a database that supports 400 MB to 2.5 GB at any given time. If I could better manage backups on such a machine, I wanted to know about it! Id
Executing multiple DMX statements from SSMS
Analysis Services doesn’t support IMultipleResults, so it is not actually possible to execute multiple statements at once. However, SQL Server Management Studio has a way to work around this issue.
Enhancing XML search with XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text
(P. Case) Powerful queries of character strings, numbers, dates, and nodes are familiar to users of relational database systems. Full-text database search systems feature queries that (1) use logical, proximity, and starts-with operators, (2) offer user control of case and diacritics, stemming, and
Using msdb Backup Tables
(Gert E.R. Drapers) I have two questions about backing up and restoring files. First, how can I determine when my last backup occurred? And second, how can I retrieve the files from the list in the backup folder and restore them automatically?
Streaming Techniques for XML Processing – Part 1
(Tobias Trapp) Transformation Languages like XSLT are the most powerful techniques for processing XML documents. Unfortunately XSLT is very resource-consuming so that you can’t use it to process mass data. That’s why serial transformation languages have been developed that can transform XML document
New leading 10TB TPC-H result for DB2
(Chris Eaton) On Friday July 14th, IBM delivered a new leading 10TB TPC-H benchmark result. This latest result with DB2 was run on a cluster of 16 8way p5 575s and delivered 180,108 QphH@10000GB with a price performance of $47/QphH (system available Aug 30, 2006).