(Douglas Reilly) Dave Sussman is one of the ASP Insiders, a group of international professionals with a demonstrated expertise in ASP.NET technologies. He is also a well-known author and speaker. Most recently, Dave co-authored ADO.NET and System.Xml v. 2.0 – The Beta Version with Alex Homer and Mar
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Oracle 10g Automatic Storage Management (ASM), Part 2: Sample Implementation
(Jim Czuprynski) The previous article in this series presented a high-level overview of Oracle 10g’s new Automatic Storage Management (ASM) features and how ASM instances can be used in concert with other Oracle database instances to provide a scalable, reliable architecture for managing and monitor
User-defined interfaces in PHP 5: Implementing (X)HTML Widgets
(Alejandro Gervasio) In this second part of the series, you will learn the basics of object-oriented web page generation through the use of (X)HTML widgets. You will also see how objects implement the “HTMLRenderer” interface to explicitly define its functionality by using the “toHTML()” method.
Google Maps! Ajax-Style Web Development Using ASP.NET
(Vishwas Lele) I have three goals in this article. First, I want to provide a high-level overview of AJAX-style applications. My second goal is to provide a detailed description of asynchronous callback features of ASP.NET 2.0. Finally, I want to provide an insight into upcoming enhancements of tool
SQL Server Indexes
(scott) Relational databases like SQL Server use indexes to find data quickly when a query is processed. Creating and removing indexes from a database schema will rarely result in changes to an application’s code; indexes operate ‘behind the scenes’ in support of the database engine. However, creati
An Image is Worth a Thousand Words in PHP
(Brian Vaughn) Picking up where we left off in part one, we will work on some more helper methods and our conversion method. By the time we are done, we wil lhave a fully functional image to text converter.
Database Links: A Definition in Plain English
(Lewis R Cunningham) A database link is the way Oracle allows you to connect from one database to another. There are several types of links and I will discuss each of those. Database links are also used in heterogeneous access and I will, very briefly, describe that.
Walkthrough: Using DB2 Stored Procedures with PHP
(Justin Whitney) As a Web developer, I want my DB2 database to do more than just store pretty things. I want to be able to show them off for all the world to see. PHP gives me a fun way to do that. But how do the two work together? And how can I use PHP to make the most […]
Implement a DITA publishing solution without abandoning your current publishing system investments
(Robert Anderson and Erik Hennum) In with the old, in with the new. How did IBM move forward with Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) without investing in a completely new system? This article describes the solution that allowed us to begin working with the new, topic-oriented DITA archite
Extend the SQL Server 2005 Integration Services Script Task with Your Own .NET Class Library
(Jeffrey Juday) If you’re familiar with SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS) you’re probably aware that SSIS includes vast improvements over SQL Server 2000 Data Transformation Services (DTS). Among these improvements is extensive .NET support, which comes in many forms. For example, the