(Jennifer Kyrnin) One of the most common questions about using XML is “What browser can I use to read my XML pages?” This question presupposes a number of things: –XML documents are meant to be like Web pages, and viewed in a browser –There are “browsers” or other tools that are meant to be
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Tackle common programming problems with design patterns
(Tony Patton) As application development matured as a discipline, design patterns emerged as solutions for common programming problems. Design patterns provide a vehicle for experienced developers to share their time-tested approaches to solving problems faced by every developer day after day. I’ll
DB2 label-based access control: A practical guide, Part 2: A step-by-step guide to protect sensitive data using LBAC
(Carmen K. Wong and Stan Musker) LBAC is a security feature introduced in the DB2 Viper release. With LBAC, administrators can control read and write access of user to a table column and row level. This tutorial includes use-case scenarios that demostrate how users can apply LBAC to protect their da
Explore the Enterprise Library Exception Handling Block for .NET 2.0
(Thiru Thangarathinam) In an ideal world, all the code you write would always run without error. But the reality is that no matter how carefully you write your code, errors can and will occur. Therefore, it’s imperative to have an efficient, configurable exception handling framework capable of handl
Delegates in Visual Basic .NET
(John Spano) In your Visual Basic .NET journey, you have more than likely encountered a well used, but little understood phenomenon, called a delegate. You use them everyday, but might not know it. In this article we will take a look at what a delegate is and how it will help you to develop better
Custom Object Binding to a GridView
(Brian Mains) In this article, I’m going to look at the aspects of binding a custom collection to the GridView control. It isn’t as easy as binding a DataSet, DataTable, or DataView object, but is still possible. It is good to understand how the GridView works with custom objects because most enterp
Merging data into single table from multiple tables (resultsets)
(Sanjay Gulati) This article shows how to reduce the number of trips to improve performance by merging data into single table from multiple tables (resultsets).
IBM DB2 Document Manager with IBM Records Manager Solution Guide
(Wei-Dong Zhu, Carlos A Cedillo, Irina Grijalba, Nicole Hughes, Romney Kernek, Lai-Fong Leung and Steve Studer) IBM DB2 Document Manager Version 8.3 is one of the newest members of the IBM Enterprise Content Management portfolio. Document Manager provides a secure and robust platform to manage the c
A Developer’s Introduction to Microformats
(Phil Haack) When Bill Gates recently said at the MIX Conference, “We need microformats,” he indicated that microformats are here to stay. Microformats are expected to have increased significance on the web. But what exactly are microformats?
Why Oracle Works the Way it Does (7) – The PGA
(Dratz) Last time, we discussed some of the shared memory components in Oracle. This time we’ll talk about Oracle’s private parts (hey! get your mind out of the gutter). Specifically, let’s talk about the Program Global Area (PGA).