(Wei-Meng Lee) There’s a lot of new ground to cover about data binding in Windows Forms 2.0, so it’s best to just jump right in. This article assumes you have SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (download here) installed on your computer. I will also use the pubs sample database familiar to most SQL Ser
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Database Programming in Python: Accessing MySQL
(A.P.Rajshekhar) While data storage for applications is no longer considered complex, it is now simplified to the point that flexibility is sacrificed. There is a good compromise, however. In this article, you will learn how to access a a MySQL database with Python.
ROME in a Day: Parse and Publish Feeds in Java
(Mark Woodman) Ready to parse and publish RSS and Atom feeds in Java? In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll show you how to pull in an existing feed, add your own content, and publish the results in a new format, all in 100 lines of code. (200 lines with whitespace and comments.)
Configure Informix Dynamic Server with WebSphere Application Server
(Anju Sudhakar) WebSphere Application Server (Application Server) is a high-performance transaction server that features an extremely scalable transaction engine capable of handling high-volume secure transactions and Web services. Application servers are middleware that handle application functions
MySQL to adopt Firebird architecture
(mauriciolongo) Today it became generally known that MySQL has aquired a company called Netfrastructure. This company offers a product which is a reimplementation of the Firebird database architecture, combined with a web-based application server front end. It was designed by Jim Starkey in the late
Building With Blox: A Faster Route to Analytic Apps
(Nelson King) IBM DB2 Alphablox 8.3 is an incremental advancement of a product that lives between the possibility of enabling nonprogrammers to build online analytical processing applications and the vastly more difficult developer’s slog of building such programs from scratch. The key word is build
Protect your Metadata
(Kalen Delaney) Metadata is data about data. It not only describes the structure and meaning of your data, but also the structure and meaning of your applications and processes. In this article, I will discuss the concept of metadata visibility and focus on the visibility restrictions introduced in
The Face of Intelligence
(David Baum) Business intelligence (BI) applications traditionally have been the province of highly trained analysts responsible for financial reporting and analysis activities. No more. Today’s organizations are deriving more value from their BI investments by extending actionable information to ma
Upgrading to Oracle 10g With Minimal Downtime
(Lenka Vanek and Tom Chu) Upgrading hardware is usually painless, but upgrading databases…well, everyone has a horror story to tell. The primary concerns of a seasoned Oracle DBA are the success of the upgrade and the downtime that could result. Success being not only that the upgrade itself worked
Build Office-based apps with a Visual Studio add-in
(Tony Patton) Microsoft’s share of the office productivity suite market is no secret as Microsoft Office dominates the competition. For this reason, it is often desirable to harness the power of the Office suite when developing custom applications. After all, who wants to reinvent the wheel?