Centralized Data Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence systems have become key assets for company success. More focus is being placed on centralizing data from different data sources providing a centralized view of customer information. Less emphasis is being placed on designing new sources of data. If you are not convinced of this shift in technology, simply look at job postings […]
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Making SQL Work Too Hard
Making SQL Work Too Hard I was reading a forum and came across a question where someone wanted to take a query returning 30 columns and break them out into three lines of 10 columns each. I really enjoy these kinds of challenges from the standpoint of how to write SQL to accomplish this task. I have been using SQL […]
Stateless versus Stateful Transactions
(Roger L. Costello) Think back to your school math classes where you learned about, say, the square root function. You learned that you can call the function with an argument and it returns the result, e.g.,
Making Progress
(Kurt Cagle) There are a number of intriguing widgets that have emerged from the HTML5 spec. A rather tantalizing one is the progress meter, designated by the element. The role of is obvious enough – it provides a way of giving feedback about the state of a given transaction, w
SVG Animation Library
(Darla Ferrara) Animation is a fun side of designing an image in SVG. The SVG animation library focuses on articles that can help to refine your skills in this area. Although it is satisfying to create a moving graphic, it can be a complex process.
Objects, Properties, Events and Methods in VB.NET
If you are new to Visual Basic .NET programming, it is essential that you understand what objects, properties, events and methods are. Knowing these concepts will not only make you a better programmer in VB.NET, but the knowledge can be applied to other object oriented programming languages like C#
HTML Editor Smart Tasks and Event Handler Generation (ASP.NET vNext Series)
(Scott Guthrie) This is the first in a series of blog posts I’m doing on ASP.NET vNext.
Dynamic Structured Data Processing and Its Automatic Metadata Maintenance
(Michael M. David) Fixed structured data keeps businesses running day in and day out. But supporting only fixed data is also extremely limiting to structured data processing. There is no reason that highly principled structured data processing has to be limited to static data structures.
Synchronisation in Parallel Loops
The fifth part of the Parallel Programming in .NET tutorial continues the description of parallel loops. This article looks at the synchronisation problems of aggregation in parallel loops and how to overcome them with locking and local state values.
ORA-29024: Certificate validation failure
(Flavio Casetta) Ever tried to run UTL_HTTP.BEGIN_REQUEST procedure passing an URL that points to a HTTPS (SSL) server?