(Erik Siegel) It’s simple to introduce mistakes in XSLT stylesheets that go unnoticed. Neither static nor dynamic error checking helps: Only thorough functional testing will reveal them. XSLT 2.0 introduced several new options and possibilities, and you can use some of them to make your stylesheets
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Getting a list of Security Groups and Accounts for a user through the API
(Kyle Hatlestad) I got an interesting question on one of my previous posts about how to access the list of Security Groups a user can write to through the API. In first looking at it, I thought it would be straightforward and there would be a schema service for this.
Oracle Warehouse Builder to go into retirement. What to do?
(Uli Bethke) What I had predicted in my post OWB vs ODI: What to do, what to do? a couple of years ago, is now official. Oracle Warehouse Builder will be no more. At the time I had recommended not to embark on any new OWB implementations going forward. I hope you have stuck to this advice.
What the heck is the SQL Execution ID – SQL_EXEC_ID?
(Tanel Poder) Ok, I think it’s time to write another blog entry. I’ve been traveling and dealing with jetlag from 10-hour time difference, then traveling some more, spoken at conferences, drank beer, had fun, then traveled some more, trained customers, hacked some Exadatas and now I’m back home.
Using HTML5 input types in ASP.NET
(Bipin Joshi) HTML5 introduced several new input types for element. These new input types include number, range, email, url, color, date, datetime and a few more. Though these types are not fully supported by all desktop browsers any ASP.NET developer should know them because newer browser v
PHP Proxy Patterns
(Alejandro Gervasio) In this first part of a three-part tutorial, I introduce you to what proxy objects are and how they can be used for lazy-loading domain objects in PHP. In this case, I will show you how to use proxies in the development of a blog application, to fetch on request the comments ass
jQuery Can Provide Queue-Based Promise Objects
(Ben Nadel) Last week, I was looking up some Promise information in the jQuery API when I came across the .promise() fn-method. While I have worked with promises in the context of AJAX and explicit Deferred objects, it seems that jQuery provides implicit promise functionality around their queues and
DB2 for z/OS and SMS: a DB2 10 Migration Step That You Can Take Ahead of Time
(Robert Catterall) Those of you looking to migrate your DB2 for z/OS Version 8 or Version 9 systems to DB2 10 may be aware of the fact that the DB2 catalog and directory data sets must be SMS-managed in a DB2 10 environment, and that SMS must be set up to manage these data sets before you actually p
Introduction to: RDFa 1.1 Lite
(Manu Sporny) RDFa 1.1 Lite is a simple subset of RDFa consisting of the following attributes: vocab, typeof, property, rel, about and prefix.
SQL Server: User-Defined Roles
(Denny Cherry) While we’ve been able to create user-defined database roles for decades to ease the process of granting database-level permissions, at the instance level there have always been only nine fixed server roles (eight if you’re using anything older than SQL Server 2000; the bulkadmin role