(Anand Narayan and Vinay Desai) This white paper shares vision and challenges in testing .NET applications. Never before, has any technology or framework tried bringing many disparate systems and languages under one roof for the benefit of enterprise applications. But with the advent of the .NET
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Meet the Experts: Why IBM is open sourcing Cloudscape as Derby
(Jon Prial) At LinuxWorld in San Francisco, IBM announced that it was releasing Cloudscape, a fully relational Java database as open source to the Apache Software Foundation, which has established it as an incubator project under the name “Derby.” This is the latest in a long series of commitmen
Query Notifications in ADO.NET 2.0
(Bob Beauchemin) Learn how to use the new notification technologies in ADO.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 to handle ad-hoc data refreshes.
MSSQL Server 2000 Reporting Services: Reporting Services Basics: Create a Reusable Template Report
(William Pearson) In this article, we will venture away from the functionally specific focuses of recent sessions, and concentrate on a basic consideration that can save us a great deal of time in our work within reporting services. As most of us who have worked with enterprise reporting packages ha
Oracle9i Analytic SQL Features, Part 4
(Brad Cowdrey) This article will take an in-depth look at the advanced aggregation features including formatting using the GROUPING function and composite grouping through examples including syntax and behavior. In addition, this article will build on the information and examples from the previo
Instrumenting Applications with .NET Tracing
(Joe Mayo) For many small and medium sized programs, it isn’t too difficult to find and fix bugs based on reproducible information from users. As applications increase in size and complexity, the ability to figure out what is causing a bug becomes more difficult. On larger enterprise systems you nee
Client Callbacks in ASP.NET Whidbey
(Saravana Kumar) Client Callbacks is a new feature in ASP.NET Whidbey(2.0). It allows calling server side events asynchronously, without causing postback. It is possible to do asynchronous call using XMLHttp Post in ASP.NET 1.0 itself, but now in ASP.NET 2.0 a clean framework is available to do thi
Errors Generated if TCP/IP DDM Server on AS/400 Not Started
If the TCP/IP DDM Server on the AS/400 is not started, the following data providers cannot connect over TCP/IP: • Microsoft OLE DB Provider for AS/400 • VSAMMicrosoft OLE DB Provider for DB2Microsoft ODBC Driver for DB2
Java User Defined Functions in DB2
(Viswanath Nandigam) We can learn how to implement a DB2 UDF by following an example where we need to do a BIT AND operation on two numbers. IBM DB2 does not support “AND” or “OR” operations. In these cases, we can use Java UDFs to overcome these shortcomings in DB2. (pdf)
‘XML document must have a top level element’ error message when you create a new site or when you synchronize users in Project Server 2003
You may experience one or both the following symptoms in Microsoft Office Project Server 2003: • When you try to create a new site for your project in Microsoft Office Project Web Access 2003, you may receive the following error message: Error occurred when creating site. Site does not seem t