(Josh Fitzgerald) Structured exception handling was introduced to Visual Basic programmers with the first .NET version of the language. Structured exception handling is important for two reasons: –It simply makes code more readable by using a syntax that is more congruent with the rest of the la
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Oracle launches first visual database development tool
(China Martens) Oracle is set to make its visual SQL Developer tool generally available. Formerly known as Project Raptor, the free software will be Oracle’s first visual database development tool, according to company’s executives.
Building web services with persistent state
(Alexandru Ghiondea) Because of the stateless nature of the HTTP protocol a web server considers every request as a new one. This means that, if you want to track a series of related calls, you must establish a way of identifying if the current request is a new request or is related to another reque
Q&A with David Webber, Co-chair of the ebXML Joint Marketing Team
(Benoît Marchal) To continue our ebXML series at developer.com, I had the chance to interview David Webber, a co-chair of the ebXML Joint Marketing Team. The interview was conducted via email. David is well known in the XML community for his long involvement with e-commerce. I originally met David a
Take Total Control Of Your Networking With .NET And UDP
(Yaniv Pessach) You’ve probably made use of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in your applications at some point, whether directly or indirectly—after all, HTTP runs on top of TCP, so every Web application is built atop it. But maybe you’ve wondered whether its brother User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
Commanding ASM
(Arup Nanda) Oracle Database 10g Release 1 introduced Automatic Storage Management (ASM), a new framework for managing Oracle database files. ASM provided a foundation for highly efficient storage management with kernelized asynchronous I/O, direct I/O, redundancy, striping, and an easy way to manag
Zooming In On Saturn
(Greg Crawley) DB2 Universal Database for Linux, Unix, and Windows version 8.2.2 (code-named Saturn) introduced many features designed specifically for SAP customers — so many, in fact, that they’re difficult to count. I’ll help you focus in on the features I find particularly useful (and suspect yo
Setting up SQL Server clusters on a SAN
(Serdar Yegulalp) Storage area networks, (SANs), make it easy to connect massive amounts of expandable storage to a server. SANs are particularly useful for SQL Server installations: Enterprise databases don’t just require a great deal of storage; they also have continually-expanding storage needs.
Moving Data from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005
(Jayaram Krishnaswamy) This article explains how to move data out of SQL 2000 Server and into SQL Server 2005. This hands-on tutorial shows a step-by-step procedure for moving to SQL 2005, the new database from Microsoft released in November of 2005.
Get better search results with this advanced SQL pagination searching technique
(Anthony Molinaro) This chapter excerpt from the SQL Cookbook explains how pagination and other advanced search techniques can be used to increase the quality of your SQL queries. (pdf)