(Joe Duffy) Simple tasks that you typically take for granted can be surprisingly complex when you peek under the hood. Method calls are the bread and butter of C# and VB programming, but a lot of moving pieces go into making that all work. In this article, we’ll take a quick look at how all of it wo
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Visual Studio 2005 Hands-On Tutorial – Part 1
(David Catherman) Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Sever 2005 are fairly new products with many new concepts. Those who are eager adopters of new technology have plunged in and written many great articles about the new productivity. But others have taken a “wait and see” attitude, and need a little encour
Compare Informix Dynamic editions
(Christine Normile) “IDS is IDS is IDS.” This mantra holds true for the platforms that the IBM IDS runs on, and the editions that are available from IBM.
Weaving WebSphere: EGL Revisited
(Joe Pluta) Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) is a strange little language. Actually I say little, but it’s far from that; EGL has got untold hours of development muscle behind it, and the team that is building the language is growing. Be that as it may, EGL is still a bit strange: the weird, ner
How to set the memory conservation threshold for SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services 32-bit edition on a 64-bit version of Windows
When you install Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services 32-bit on a 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows, you can take advantage of the 4 gigabyte (GB) memory space that is available in the Windows on Windows 64 (WOW64) environment.
SQL Server jobs
(Alf Pedersen) In the day-to-day operations of running a business, employees can get caught up in more than one project, as is often the case.
Inside the Altova XML Suite 2006
(Ed Tittel) Those who’ve been reading my XML tips over the past 5 years will have noted that I keep coming back to the various XML developer tools from Altova from time to time. The company has a brand-new 2006 edition of its XML program suite, so the time seems appropriate to talk about what’s insi
Storage and Retrieval of XML Documents using Object-Relational Databases
(Takeyuki Shimura, Masatoshi Yoshikawa and Shunsuke Uemura) This paper describes general storage and retrieval methods for XML documents using object-relational databases. The storage method decomposes tree structure of XML documents into nodes, and stores them in relational tables according to the
DB2 LUW and z/OS Users: Share Your Opinions for a Chance to Win a 50” Plasma TV or one of 25 Apple iPods
The International DB2 Users Group (IDUG), the leading independent association of DB2 product family users, is seeking the opinions of DB2 professionals working on the Linux, UNIX or Windows, or z/OS platforms.
MySQL Launches Open Source Collaboration Site
Open source database developer MySQL has introduced MySQL Forge, a Web site and community directory designed to encourage MySQL users and developers to communicate, collaborate, and share MySQL code and applications.