(David Cummings) A Content Management System, or CMS, is a program designed to help develop and maintain shared information, primarily websites. They typically run on a modulated XML format separating content from design elements, thereby allowing numerous combinations with minimal work. CMS’s are d
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Ingres CTO: Ingres database ready
(Eric Lai) Ingres was spun out of CA late last year to develop and sell the durable database technology that was released to the open-source community a year earlier. Dave Dargo, Ingres’ chief technology officer, talked about the status of the new company and its place in the database community last
SQL Performance: Abnormal Stored Procedure Recompiles?
(george.p.alexander) So application programming in .Net is one thing. But tweaking the Database part of our application is a totally different matter. Earlier we had a look at enhancing database performance by getting the right index. This was followed by a look into using indexes along with SQL Sta
Undocumented DBCC: Use PSS command to view user and process information
(Serdar Yegulalp) The DBCC PSS command enables you to obtain and dump out detailed information about processes and users currently connected to a SQL Server. It has remained an undocumented feature because the type of information dumped out by PSS has changed from one SQL Server edition to the next,
Examining ASP.NET 2.0’s Site Navigation – Part 5
(Scott Mitchell) The site navigation features in ASP.NET 2.0 make it easy to define a site map and implement common navigation UI elements, such as a breadcrumb, treeview, and menu. Due to its use of the provide model, you can dictate how to serialize the site map. ASP.NET 2.0 ships with a default i
Extended Properties
(Brian Mains) Extended properties are a new database feature with the SQL Server 2005 product. Extended properties store additional information for a wide array of database objects, such as tables or columns. For example, you could store table and column descriptions of purpose and business informat
Interview with Taneli Otala, new CTO of MySQL AB
(Kaj Arnö) During one of the coldest days in early February, I invited the new MySQL AB CTO, Taneli Otala, for dinner to my home in Grankulla, Finland. Taneli was spending over a week with Michael ‘Monty’ Widenius, our company founder, main architect and CTO since many years.
Why Oracle’s Automatic Storage Management?
(Sreeram Surapaneni) Oracle Database 10g’s mantra is simpler, more automated database management. We DBAs cannot help but get excited about all the new technology that Oracle routinely releases. With the release of Oracle’s Volume Manager and File system built into the Database kernel (ASM) that ent
Get Your Hands on Better Multimedia Control in .NET
(Steve Orr) If you’ve ever tried to find classes in the .NET Framework that allow you to play audio and video, you may have noticed the gaping hole where this functionality should be.
How easy Cryptography is in VS.Net
(Sushmita Kumari) The Internet is an international network consisting of individual computers and computer networks that are all interconnected by many paths. Unlike Local Area Networks where access is physically restricted to authorized users, the Internet is a public network and can be accessed by