(perels) The code provided here provides an optimized paging solution using ASP.NET Repeater, SQL Server 2005 / 2008 (not 2000). The implementation does not use temp tables, ROW_COUNT or similar. It only returns the specified amount of rows and not the full dataset to the client for performance reas
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Using pre-built rule definitions with IBM InfoSphere Information Analyzer
(Harald Smith) A key challenge in assessing and monitoring information quality is starting the process to validate key business requirements. Rather than start off with a blank slate, this article includes and shows how to use pre-built rule definitions to get under way.
Is Application Testing Still Useful?
Is Application Testing Still Useful? I believe Application Testing is an essential tool for software development. In some situations it is the only means possible to test an application; especially if the software architecture does not enable other forms of testing. Consider the two tier applications that continue to this day. Much of the software cannot be easily tested using […]
Automated Application Testing
Automated Application Testing I have been testing the waters for different open systems Web Application testing tools. A Google search will provide you with many different tools. Currently I am taking WatiN for a test run (pronounced What-in). WatiN is short for Web Application Testing in .Net. WatiN is a porting of the popular WatiR product from Ruby to the […]
XML Security Gateway plugging holes for Public Clouds
Recently, there has been a flurry of news emanating from the XML security world related to researchers demonstrating an attack on Amazon’s AWS cloud management interface. The attack takes advantage of a well known exploit known as XML signature wrapping or XML signature manipulation.
New Request validation features in ASP.Net 4.5
(K. G. Sreeju Nair) ASP.Net request validation is a feature that automatically protects ASP.Net applications from XSS attacks. Request validation in asp.net triggers error when it found HTML markup in any of the input data. But some real life applications still require HTML data in some of the input
Using jQuery’s .pushStack() for reusable DOM traversing methods
(Karl Swedberg) The .pushStack() method has been in jQuery since before version 1.0, but it hasn’t received a whole lot of attention outside of core developers and plugin authors. While its usefulness may not be immediately apparent, it can come in really handy in some situations, so I’d like to tak
How to Check and Repair MySQL Tables Using Mysqlcheck
(Ramesh Natarajan) When your mysql table gets corrupted, use mysqlcheck command to repair it.
SharePoint 2010 remote BLOB storage: A ‘large’ step up on storing data
(Brien M. Posey) Since SharePoint was first released, Microsoft has used SQL Server as the underlying data management and storage mechanism. Although SQL Server is adequate for storing SharePoint data, it isn’t always ideal. The reason for this is that like most relational databases, SQL Server is o
How to list the paginated records in DataGrid control and how to list items in the ListBox control?
(SheoNarayan) In this article, we are going to learn about DataGrid and Listbox controls in Silverlight.