(DougBangkok) The Smart List Box lets you define multiple vertical columns and add font controls to a standard list box facility.
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Patterns: Building Serial and Parallel Processes for IBM WebSphere Process Server V6
(Martin Keen, Andy Garratt, Ed Grossman, Dennis Stilhoff, Dan Zrobok and Sunita Chacko) IBM WebSphere Process Server, and the accompanying IBM WebSphere Integration Developer development tool, provide a vast array of powerful features for building business process solutions. But how can you use thos
Using Nulls in DB2
(Craig Mullins) A null represents missing or unknown information at the column level. If a column “value” can be null, it can mean one of two things: the attribute is not applicable for certain occurrences of the entity, or the attribute applies to all entity occurrences, but the information may not
Membership with Windows Accounts
(Brian Mains) The membership provider works really well for intranet and internet applications in how it validates the user and manages roles. But I’ve personally had a need to be able to use windows account that have been assigned application roles, as I don’t have access to the domain and can’t cr
Rich Internet Applications: Introduction to Adobe Flex and PHP
(Mike Potter) AJAX is popular for the creation of rich Internet applications, but there are good alternatives. This article will introduce you to Flex applications, rich Internet applications that run inside the Adobe Flash player.
Business Intelligence Solutions with HP Integrity Servers and Microsoft SQL Server 2005
This HP white paper describes the evolution of data warehousing systems and explains how standards-based, object-oriented programming has improved the newest generation of Business Intelligence (BI) software. The paper outlines key differences between components-based and integrated approaches to BI
Microsoft’s Lineup of SQL Server Related Webcasts for May 2006
Twenty-three new webcasts are scheduled for May, covering such topics as Migrating from Access to SQL Server 2005 Express, Implementing Database Mirroring in SQL Server 2005, Creating Analytical Multidimensional Expression (MDX) Queries and more.
Looping, Branching, Selecting and Using XML To Read a File
(Dan Mabbutt) Let’s review the goal of the program. I want a “copy and paste” signature block that I can add to messages. I find that I often want to make small changes in the signature block that is automatically added in my email program and using a signature block in a lot of tools, like newsgrou
Capacity Planning as a Performance Tuning Tool—Case Study for a Very Large Database Environment
This article discusses the performance and scaleability impact due to severe CPU and I/O bottlenecks in a very large database (over 20 terabytes). It describes the methodologies used to collect performance data in a production environment, and explains how to evaluate and analyze the memory, CPU, ne
Oracle/PLSQL: ORA-04091 Error
A statement executed a trigger or custom PL/SQL function. That trigger/function tried to modify or query a table that is currently being modified by the statement that fired the trigger/function.