(A. Russell Jones) S. “Soma” Somasegar, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for the developer division, made the unexpected announcement, via his official MSDN-hosted Web log (http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/), that C# will get the much-loved edit-and-continue (E&C) feature in Visual Studio 2005. W
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Creating a Custom XML Editor in ColdFusion
(Kelly Brown) It’s almost impossible to pick up a trade magazine these days and not find a reference to XML. It’s an important enabling technology for the sophisticated Web applications of the future.
Synchronizing on Demand
(Gary Zaika) After the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001, many organizations reconsidered how they manage and protect crucial business data. Having a remote data center with a second set of databases and application servers has become a common practice. Businesses have been willin
PRB: SQL Distributed Query with Oracle NUMERIC Column Gives Error
Attempting to use an Oracle linked server using the MSDAORA OLE DB provider, which queries a table with a NUMERIC column, may give an error similar to the following: Server: Msg 7354, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 OLE DB provider ‘MSDAORA’ supplied invalid metadata for column ‘columnname’. The data
New Features of Oracle SQL (Sample Chapter)
(Gavin Powell and Carol McCullough-Dieter) This chapter takes a bird’s-eye view of Oracle SQL changes in both Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Database 9i. Without further ado, let’s get started with Oracle Database 10g. (pdf)
Build Web Apps Using Free Utility
(Paul Holm) Many of you are familiar with the capabilities provided with the green-screen product called Query/400. As you know, businesses use Query/400 to generate reports by selecting and sequencing files and fields using DB2/400 files. With the world moving away from green screen toward browser-
Automate with SQL Mail
(Steven Warren) As a database administrator, I like automation. When it comes to my backups, I like to automate as much as possible. SQL Mail gives me the ability to know when my backups are successful and when they fail.
Optimize the Massive DELETE Operation in Oracle, Part 1
(Boris Milrud) A massive DELETE operation deletes millions of rows from a table with indexes and constraints. This operation is database intensive and time consuming, mainly because it forces the database to generate and save to disk significant amounts (possibly gigabytes) of redo and undo data.
ASP.NET 2.0: Login Controls
(Brian Mains) This article will show a basic example of the Login controls using a Membership provider, and will illustrate the minimal amount of code actually written to operate the site. Later on, more articles will detail each control individually, as this example will not delve into the prop
Configure Single Sign-on for WebSphere Portal V5.0.2 and DB2 Content Manager V8.2 Using LDAP and LtpaTokens
Configure single sign-on for WebSphere Portal V5.0.2 and DB2 Content Manager using a common LDAP directory.