(Armand Datema) This is the first in a series of articles on how to use the templating feature of the DDRMenu. This series will be based upon the XSLT template option.
Other News
Fizz Buzz with XPath 2.0/3.0
(Dimitre Novatchev) A few days ago Jim Fuller asked on Twitter:
Learn to Reuse your SQL Queries: Working with Subqueries and Merge
(Sue Harper) This week we ran a new webinar for DBClarity Developer, focusing on creating SQL queries, first by creating a query and then reusing that query – using DBClarity Developer – to make things nice and easy.
Bad Practice for Session Scope Access in ADF BC
(Andrejus Baranovskis) Few months back I had a blog post which started discussion in ADF community – if its good or bad practice to access Session Scope in ADF BC – How to Access Session Scope in ADF BC. In this blog post I was describing ADF public API method which gives access to the Session Scope
Improving .NET Application Performance Part 11: Iteration and Looping
(Ard-Jan Barnas) In this article in the optimizing .NET code series, we’ll discuss “Iteration and Looping”. Non-optimized code within loops can lead to performance issues, ranging from increased memory consumption to CPU exhaustion. This section summarizes guidelines that will improve iteration and
Introducing the Navigation for ASP.NET Web Forms Framework
(Graham Mendick) The Navigation for ASP.NET Web Forms framework, an open source project hosted at navigation.codeplex.com, lets you write Web Forms code with unit test coverage and adherence to don’t repeat yourself (DRY) principles that would make an ASP.NET MVC application green with envy.
Variables and Arguments in Perl
(James Lee) In this fifth part to a six-part article series on subroutines and functions in Perl, you’ll learn about lexical variables, and how passing arguments works.
APAR Friday: Enhance REORG TABLESPACE PART performance
(Willie Favero) If you are interested in improving the performance of your partition REORGs, here’s a code update that should be of interest. All you need to do is stay current on your maintenance and add an additional keyword here and there. Magically, you have better performance.
DB2 for z/OS: Trading Memory for MIPS (Part 3)
(Robert Catterall) In part 1 of this three-part series on leveraging Big Memory (i.e., a large z/OS LPAR real storage resource) to enhance DB2 workload CPU efficiency, I focused on getting the most out of a DB2 buffer pool configuration without increasing its size (this by adjusting certain threshol
Appending New Rows Only
(Chad Miller) I saw a question in the forums related to inserting new rows into a SQL Server table only if they didn’t exist. The current solution was using an ADO.NET DataTable , checking for new rows and then pushing the rows back to SQL Server by calling the Update method on the DataAdapter. Alth