(Buck Woody) It’s rare that a single data store (such as an Oracle or SQL Server database) holds all of the data a particular application might need. In many cases a single system has data that could be correlated with another system, so users are left to collate the information themselves, such as
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Calling ASP.NET MVC Action Methods from JavaScript
(Phil Haack) In a recent blog post, I wrote a a controller inspector to demonstrate Controller and Action Descriptors. In this blog post, I apply that knowledge to build something more useful.
Security : Oracle Database Vault
(Sanjit Anand) Oracle Database Vault restricts access to specific areas in an Oracle database from any user, including users who have administrative access. For example, you can restrict administrative access to employee salaries, customer medical records, or other sensitive information.
Redo log buffer or redo log file ?
(Gary Myers) There’s a very interesting post on Jonathan Lewis’ blog under the unassuming title of REDO.
Restoring OLR – 11gR2
(Anand) OLR (Oracle Local Registry) stores the information used by OHASD during the startup sequence of the node.The OLR clusterware configuration file is present on all the nodes of the RAC database.It also stores the Oracle Restart’s metadata for Single instance database in 11gR2.
Validating an XML File with LXML
(Andy Todd) I’ve been playing with XML files recently and have on the odd occasion needed to validate a file against an XML schema.
Oracle’s Shameful Study: Oracle Database 11gR2 vs. IBM DB2 9.7
(Conor O’Mahony) Anyone who has spent any length of time around IT will have encountered their fair share of shameful vendor-sponsored studies. It is an unfortunate reality of the over-aggressive marketing that sometimes comes to the fore. In my opinion, a recent study from ORC International that wa
What are the Advantages of RDF
(Darla Ferrara) Resource description framework (RDF) is one way to identify data on your pages. What are the advantages of RDF? The same as they are with most XML formats; simplicity and control. RDF is not the only way to accomplish this task.
Parallel ForEach Loop
The third part of the Parallel Programming in .NET tutorial examines the parallel ForEach loop. This iterates through the items in a collection, executing the same code for each with the potential for the data to be decomposed and processed in parallel.
Emitting Exceptions from LINQ to SQL classes in ASP.NET MVC Validation Summary
(Bipin Joshi) Recently while developing a sample application in ASP.NET MVC, I came across a peculiar situation. There was a LINQ to SQL class with several extensibility methods defined (OnXXXXChanging kind of methods where XXXX is the name of a property).