(Steve Callan) One feature often times overlooked by developers is PL/SQL’s ability to allow overloading. As in other programming languages, overloading occurs when a program uses the same name for a function or procedure, and the way the program differentiates which version being called is based on
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SQL Formatter Web Service
(tako.lee) SQL code is much easier and faster to read and understand when it is formatted, especially when it is a long and complicated SQL statement you are dealing with, or you have to read other people’s code. Writing a decent SQL formatter is not an easy task. In this article, I would like to cr
More Subtemplates
have seen a few questions around sub templates on the forum recently. Using subtemplates is a very powerful way of making your life as a template developer much easier, if you have a piece of formatting functionality that you intend to use across multiple templates then break it out as a sub templat
Homeland Security Survey Takes First Pass at LAMP
(Vance McCarthy) First results are in for the Department of Homeland Security’s vulnerability survey of some 40 Open Source projects. Early findings, released by Stamford University and source code analysis software vendor Coverity reveal that the LAMP stack has a higher-than-average code quality, w
Oracle Supports AJAX With Updated Fusion Middleware
Oracle VP Ted Farrell recently spoke to SYS-CON in an exclusive recorded interview about the company’s emerging AJAX strategy.
Oracle Recovery Manager
A complete high availability and disaster recovery strategy requires dependable data backup, restore, and recovery procedures. Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN), a command-line and Enterprise Manager-based tool, is the Oracle-preferred method for efficiently backing up and recovering your Oracle databa
Enterprise Library 2.0: Building Named Extensions in the Configuration Console
(Vijay Mehta) One of the most powerful features of the popular application framework Enterprise Library 2.0 (EL2) is the Configuration Console. The EL2 Configuration Console provides a visual representation of the different configuration settings, the actions that can be performed, and validation of
Create Meta Tags Programmatically in ASP.NET 2.0
(Ashish Singhal) In ASP.NET, we had an option to add head tags in HTML where we could define our Meta tags like keyword and description but in ASP.NET 2.0 if we use master page inheritated page then there is problem to add meta tags. This article explains how you can add meta tags in ASP.NET 2.0.
Programming with the BackgroundWorker Component in .NET 2.0
(Paul Kimmel) If you’ve ever looked at your microprocessor’s performance in the Task Manager’s CPU usage history and list of processes, you might have noticed that your PC’s microprocessor’s most active task is the idle process. In fact, your CPU is most often in what we can only call the “relaxing”
Enable ‘cdr check’ functionality within IBM Informix Dynamic Server
(Madison Pruet) The cdr sync command provides a convenient way to perform a complete synchronization of replicated tables as a foreground process that can be run within a script. The cdr check command determines which rows are out of sync, and can perform a targeted repair of only those rows.