(Alina) If you need to validate ListBox and DropDown List you can do it using Required field validator.
Other News
Making Generic Classes Useful with Constraints
(Peter Vogel) Many developers are aware that they can write a method that works with many different kinds of objects without using the Object data type: Just write a generic class or method.
Joining BTree and GIN/GiST indexes
(depesz) Today, I’d like to show you how you can use the same index for two different types of conditions. One that is using normal BTree indexing ( equal, less than, greater than ), and one that is using GIN/GiST index, for full text searching.
IBM DB2 BLU Best Database I/O Performance
(Dave Beulke) As I talked about database I/O performance the last three weeks here, here, and here, optimizing database I/O performance involves many different factors. When I left off last week I talked about the parameters for pinning your popular objects into DB2’s buffer pools to optimize and l
Clouds ahead: Playing with DB2 and Cognos (FREE)
(Henrik Loeser) By now everybody should have heard about IBM BLU Acceleration for Cloud. The tagline is “Data Warehousing and Analytics for Everyone” which caught my eye. So this morning I wanted to find out how easy it is to get started. My conclusion: Almost too easy for an IBM product… 😉
Improving External XSLT Processors Scalability and Usability
Before build 1928b Stylus Studio could not run XSLT transformations using external processors, which output very large files. The wiring was not designed to scale and the scenario output URL was not taken in consideration.
Convert 12cR1 non-RAC database to RAC database using rconfig
(Marko Sutic) I have recently configured Active/Passive Failover cluster using Grid Infrastructure 12cR1 and wrote document on that subject. Now I plan to use this environment and convert “test12” database from Single-Instance to RAC database.
HA of Database Control for RAC made easy
(Uwe Hesse) When you install an 11g RAC database without Grid Control respectively Cloud Control present, this is what the DBCA will give you:
12c Hybrid Hash Distribution with Skew Detection / Handling – Failing
(Randolf Geist) This is just an addendum to the previous post demonstrating one example (out of many possible) where the join skew handling feature fails. The test case setup is the same as in the previous post.
Learn HTML5 – Part 1: Introducing HTML5 APIs
(Manish Tewatia) This is the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web. The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) a very popular and is in high demand. It’s not just a newer version of HTML, it’s a Web platform for techies that not only includes some new tags, but also easy to extract