(Arthur Fuller) Learn how to build a table from a list of values and join the table to the target table. You’ll also discover how to build the temporary table to hold the values.
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How to Build Grammars for Speech-enabled Applications
(Sara Morgan Rea) Most companies you call have automated voice attendants that walk you through a series of menu choices until you are finally directed to a live person. As the automated portions of these systems gain use and popularity, they’re becoming increasingly sophisticated—even helpful.
Selecting from an Insert, Update, Delete statement
(Chris Eaton) In my last posting I described the new Insert/Update/Delete from Select statement in DB2 v8.1.4. But as mentioned, even more powerful is the ability to Select directly from an Insert, update or delete statement.
MySQL Gets Government Thumbs Up
(Lisa Vaas) Open source scored its latest government takeover, with MySQL AB nabbing a five-year contract with the General Services Administration that will put its open-source database at the fingertips of government customers.
Leverage the .NET Framework with Visual Basic.NET
(G.Gnana Arun Ganesh) Using the .NET Framework, Microsoft Visual Basic developers can build robust applications that were very difficult to write in previous versions of Visual Basic. This article will discuss the the powerful features of the Visual Basic.NET and it`s Data types.
DB2 UDB for z/OS: Design Guidelines for High Performance and Availability
(Paolo Bruni, Patric Becker, Jan Henderyckx, Joseph Link and Bart Steegmans) Conducting business via the Web and remaining open for business 24 hours a day, seven days a week is now commonplace. Customers come in with unexpected workloads through the Web and operate in a self-service fashion with mo
Call SOAP Web services with Ajax, Part 2: Extend the Web services client
(James Snell) In Part 1 of this series, I introduced a cross-browser JavaScript library providing a simple SOAP Web services client capable of RPC encoded and document-literal style requests. Included in that client is support for request and response handlers, custom XML serializers/deserializers,
GridView Delete, with Confirmation
(azamsharp) Everyone likes a confirmation that lets them know that a record is being deleted. In this article, I will show you how you can prompt confirmation boxes when you delete a record from the GridView control.
Data Modeling
(Philip Greenspun) Data modeling is the hardest and most important activity in the RDBMS world. If you get the data model wrong, your application might not do what users need, it might be unreliable, it might fill up the database with garbage. Why then do we start a SQL tutorial with the most challe
An inside look at how XML works
(Preston Gralla) In my previous column, I explained the underlying architecture of how Web services work and demystified how all of its underlying components work together. This column kicks off a series looking at how each of those elements work. We’ll start off the series by examining the basis of