(Doug Reilly) Last week, I was in a bookstore in New York City and saw for the first time Glenn Johnson’s new book, Programming Microsoft ADO.NET Applications – Advanced Topics. Virtually all of my work involves databases, and virtually all of my work uses ADO.NET, and so picking up Glenn’s book was
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Collections and Sorting Continued
(David Fells) In the first part of this series we implemented a basic sortable collection class. We used a Bubble Sort algorithm to order the elements in the collection, which came with a disclaimer regarding what a slow sort it is. This article will examine the primary sorting algorithms with code
Reduce Costs and Improve Efficiency by Automating Oracle Document Delivery
Companies can extend the business process efficiency gains achieved with Oracle by automating document delivery. See production fax as a powerful tool for automating information distribution while driving efficiency, compliance and cost reduction. (R)
Building Dynamic Visio Diagrams with .NET
(Michael Libby) Microsoft Office Visio 2003 provides a feature that allows you to save diagrams to web pages. This article builds upon this ability by introducing a way to dynamically manipulate a diagram when a web page is requested. The following step by step instructions show how this can be don
An Introduction to RFID Development
(Jeff Hanson) Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an enabling technology. By itself, RFID doesn’t provide much value, but it does enable companies to develop applications that create value.
See how the XMLHttpRequest object is the heart and soul of AJAX
(Tony Patton) Web developers’ common complaint with browser-based applications is its stateless nature. That is, once data is requested and delivered from a server, the connection is lost; any subsequent data requests require a new connection. While there are various ways to cache data on the client
Stored procedures? A good practice :)
(Gevik Babakhani) As a developer I often come across SQL statements that are hardwired into the source code regardless of the programming language they are used in. It makes the code messy and unreadable when sometimes seeing large SQL statements chopped and concatenated in several string constants.
Linux to be top Oracle platform within a year
Linux is likely to supplant Solaris as the dominant platform for Oracle Corp’s databases within the next year, according to a survey commissioned by the International Oracle Users Group (IOUG).
SQL Server 2005 TableDiff Utility
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) One of the many command line utilities that came with SQL Server 2005 is the TableDiff utility. Although this utility is primarily designed for comparing replicated tables, we can take advantage of its functionality to compare tables. The objective of this article is to dem
One more reason to bind after migrating to DB2 V8
(Willie Favero) Have you noticed a decrease in performance of some queries after migrating to DB2 for z/OS Version 8? I’m referring to those long running applications with SELECTs and FETCHs that process lots of rows and return lots of columns. Those queries that also ran just fine while you were in