(Dratz) If you could only pick one thing in Oracle to know well, you should pick the DATA BLOCK. It is the key to everything worth doing in Oracle.
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Use Interop Code and Overlap Fields with the Union Construct in VB .NET
(Paul Kimmel) There are few idioms and constructs that Visual Basic .NET cannot touch. Although not especially good at pointers and addresses, VB .NET and C# enable a developer to emulate, contrive, or precisely reproduce almost everything else that even the most complex languages, such as C++, offe
Optimize database triggers in SQL Server 2000
(Michelle Gutzait) One of my clients called me. The frantic communication went something like this: “Our applications started to do crazy things in the database,” said the client. “We don’t understand what is happening. New rows are added to one table and another table is changed. We successfull
AJAX and Screenreaders: When Can it Work?
(James Edwards) We’ve all heard a great deal of buzz about AJAX in the last few months, and with this talk has come a legion of articles, tips, presentations and practical APIs designed to explore the possibilities and try to arrive at best-practice techniques. But, for all of the excitement and hyp
Delving Deeper into MySQL 5.0
(Jon Stephens and Chad Russell) One major enhancement that stored procedures and stored functions provide to you in your SQL programming is that they give you the ability to execute code in loops. MySQL 5.0 supports three looping constructs: LOOP , REPEAT , and WHILE . They are largely equivalent, a
Have you been considering the use of large objects (LOBs) but……
(Willie Favero) One of the reasons I am often given by customers for not diving into the wonderful world of large objects (LOBs) has been the lack of support in the LOAD and UNLOAD utilities. The LOAD is especially needed to be able to easily move a LOB into the appropriate table.
Semantic Breakthrough
(David Baum) By any measure, the World Wide Web is an immense success, helping everybody from preschoolers to CEOs share information, simplify research, and conduct business online. Still, many researchers aren’t happy with the state of Web technology. They think that something is missing: intellige
‘Atlas’ Foundations: ASP.NET 2.0 Callback
(Thiru Thangarathinam) One of the issues developers had when they first started to develop commercial Web sites was some of the limitations of using a browser as the interface. For instance, there were many cases where you wanted to retrieve information from the server after the user had performed s
DB2 UDB for Visual Studio 2005 developers, Part 3: Build Microsoft Web services using IBM database Add-ins for Visual Studio 2005: Highlights of the refresh release
(Sonali Surange) Exposing and consuming information from databases as Web services is becoming a key requirement for businesses implementing heterogeneous scalable solutions. IBM Database Add-ins for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 supports exposing DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) information as Web s
Enhancements in Assembly and Versioning in Visual Studio 2005
(Rambabu S) The article discusses a couple of features introduced for assembly and versioning in Visual Studio 2005.