(Bipin Joshi) ASP.NET services such as Profile are available to MVC applications too and developers can make use of them when needed. While developing a Web Forms based website project developers can access profile properties in a strongly typed fashion.
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A Closer Look at Change Management for DB2 for z/OS
(Peter Plevka) Changing DB2 for z/OS schema and object definitions has always been risky. Changes require outages, and it’s challenging to find time to implement them. The bigger problem, however, is ensuring the changes don’t introduce errors or performance problems. Many types of changes are risky
Inner vs Outer Joins on a Many-To-Many Relationship
(Lorna Mitchell) Someone will probably tell me that this is an elementary-level topic, but I got some good questions regarding joins from my most recent ZCE class students, so I thought I’d put down the examples that I used to explain this to them. Being able to join with confidence is a key skill,
Why was the RULE hint ignored?
(Maria Colgan) Recently I got a call from a customer that had just upgraded to Oracle Database 11.2.0.2 and was panicking because they thought the Rule Based Optimizer (RBO) had been removed. The reason they thought this was because when they tried to add the RULE hint to a SQL statement they still
Implementing Ajax in XSLT Grid
(Senthilkumar) XSLT is more powerful than server data controls from the performance point of view because it internally executes a lot of event handles whenever we fire the events inside the data controls. XSLT supports CSS, JavaScript and AJAXlike in the normal HTML page. Some of the ASP.NET contro
Options to not replicate SQL Server DELETE commands
(Mohammed Moinudheen) I have transactional replication configured in my production environment. The business team has requested that I do not replicate delete operations on certain articles. In this tip we look at a couple of options to not replicate DELETE commands.
Accessing Oracle, Netezza, and Microsoft Excel from DB2 z/OS
(david t) I regularly see people ask how to access data on UNIX or Windows from apps on IBM’s z/OS (mainframe) operating system. However, I haven’t been able to find anything that discusses the options. Therefore, I’m using this post to provide the basics about one solution – using IBM’s InfoSpher
Creating A JavaScript Shim For Array Unshift() Method
(Ben Nadel) If you write JavaScript, chances are good that you’re familiar with the push() and pop() methods of an Array. These methods add and remove items to and from the end of an array, respectively. You might, however, not be as familiar with the unshift() and shift() methods of an Array.
Using the Oracle XMLDB Repository to Automatically Shred Windows Office Documents (Part 1)
(Marco Gralike) People who have attended the UKOUG presentation this year where Mark Drake, Sr. Product Manager XML Technologies / XMLDB, Oracle HQ, and I demonstrated the first principles of the XDB Repository, might have been impressed with its (GEO/KML Spatial, Image EXIF info) capabilities combi
Associative Arrays 101
(Lewis Cunningham) An array is one way to store multiple variables in a collection. In PL/SQL we will often refer to an array of objects as a collection. If a record is a way to think of a specific row in a table, a collection type can be thought of as the rows in the table.