(Tony Patton) Unless you are working with legacy code or systems, most application development is done in a multiple tier or layered environment. This may include a database layer along with the business rules and presentation layers. A key part of every n-tiered environment is the database tier. In
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Dynamic Management Views and Functions
(Gregory A. Larsen) Microsoft introduced dynamic management views (DMV) and functions (DMF) with SQL Server 2005. So what are DMV’s and DMF’s? How do you use these dynamic management objects? DMVs and DMFs are a mechanism to allow you to look at the internal workings of SQL Server using TSQL. They a
The Benefits of Using an Application Framework
(Calvin Luttrell) As the evolution of software development continues, the concept of component and service based frameworks becomes a bigger part of our development process and our lives. In the Classic ASP days, we might have used a component such as ASPImage, or a custom COM + component, but with
Book excerpt: Java and .NET Interoperability
(Marina Fisher, Ray Lai, Sonu Sharma and Laurence Moroney) Java EE and .NET Interoperability: Integration Strategies, Patterns, and Best Practices addresses issues encountered during the integration process, such as a diverse technology set, incompatible APIs and disparate environment maintenance. T
Set up a WebSphere V6 SPECjAppServer2004 cluster with DB2 on Windows
(Tony Lau) WebSphere Application Server and DB2 UDB has continued to be the industry leader in J2EE performance. IBM’s latest SPECjAppServer submission has demonstrated more than 10,000 concurrent clients and produced more than a million transactions over the benchmark’s one-hour run duration. The I
Make scalable vector graphics more active with sXBL
(Peter V. Mikhalenko) The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of SVG’s XML Binding Language (sXBL). The sXBL language defines the presentation and interactive behavior of elements outside the SVG namespace. sXBL is intended to be used to enable XML voca
Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 3: Exploring the Power of XSLT (Part 2 of 2)
(Frank Coyle) The previous article in this series explained how to use XSLT to generate a list of ZwiftBooks’ top sellers. In the example, after a manual transformation we ended up with a web page dynamically generated from our XML booklist. Now let’s take the process one step further and explore ho
Ingres Wants Partners To Push Open-Source Database Into Big Biz
(Barbara Darrow) Ingres wants solution providers to know there’s a new channel program in town.
SQL Server backup utility
(Shabdar Ghata) Whenever we want to backup or move SQL Server database, most of us prefer to use regular backup utility which is available through Enterprise Manager in SQL Server 2000 or Management Studio in SQL Server 2005. Limitation of using Enterprise Manager or Management Studio is we have to
Table Partitioning comparison to Oracle and Microsoft
(Chris Eaton) No doubt this will be a controversial posting but I will give you my perspective on how DB2 Viper Table Partitioning compares to Oracle 10gR2 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005.