(Peter Vogel) If my experience with my clients (and with the participants in the courses I teach) is any guide, you’re probably not using Test-Driven Development (TDD). One reason developers don’t use TDD is because it’s presented so badly. For instance, even though most developers spend most of the
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Associating WebSphere Lombardi V7.2 attributes with users defined in OpenLDAP and routing tasks
(Sateesh Balakrishnan) This article demonstrates a design pattern using WebSphere Lombardi attributes along with users defined in an OpenLDAP server for activities such as decision making or routing. If user attributes (such as language) are defined in an LDAP server and used for routine activities,
Automate SQL Server Monitoring with Email Alerts
(Ben Snaidero) All DBA’s perform some sort of monitoring of their SQL Server database instances as no one likes to find out from a user that there is an issue with the database. In an ideal world we would notice any issues before they occur and have a fix in place so the users of our systems don’t e
Is the Itanium Dead?
Is the Itanium Dead? Today we have a few responses from readers regarding the editorial from last Friday where I reviewed the Intel white paper demonstrating benchmarks using the E7 Series chip. David: While all you said was pretty true about the closed Itanium marketplace. I would have to say it is a sad day that I knew was coming. […]
Data Exchange for the Mobile Workforce
(Beth O’Brien) Organizations have been forced to adapt many of their internal business processes to accommodate an increasingly mobile workforce. Although there are technological solutions that address many of today’s communication needs, the plethora of different document formats in use – even with
Function or Procedure?
(Michael McLaughlin) Somebody asked for a simple comparison between a PL/SQL pass-by-value function and pass-by-reference procedure, where the procedure uses only an OUT mode parameter to return the result. This provides examples of both, but please note that a pass-by-value function can be used in
PECL/mysqlnd_ms: faster slave reads
(Ulf Wendel) Why read stale data from an asynchronous MySQL replica (slave)? Fetch it from a local cache instead! Good for the clusters overall load, good for your applications performance. And, possible with PECL/mysqlnd_ms 1.3, the replication and load balancing plugin for PHP MySQL users.
A SQL Server Leap Year Test Function
(Richard Carr) Transact-SQL does not provide a standard function that allows developers to determine if a year is a leap year. This article describes two functions. One to calculate the number of days in a year and one that utilises the result to identify leap years.
The DB2Night Show #68: Problem Determination for SQL/PL, PL/SQL, & Triggers
(Scott Hayes) 96% of our audience learned something! Our special guest, Serge Rielau, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Canada, shared with our audience advanced techniques for problem determination in SQL/PL, PL/SQL, and triggers – complete with demonstrations!
ValidatorCallOutExtender Control in AJAX
(Davin Martyn) Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a new web development technique for interactive websites. With AJAX help we can develop web applications and retrieve a small amount of data from a web server. AJAX consists of a different type of technology.