(junnark) You want a little pop-up window to show additional information when you hover over a field on the gridview. The example below shows information about the respective related table (foreign key) when you hover over the link.
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Accessing DB2 from WebSphere Message Broker using stored procedures
(Kavitha Suresh Kumar) Database stored procedures can be accessed from WebSphere Message Broker using ESQL ,Database nodes, and Mapping nodes. This article shows you how to call stored procedures from ESQL and how to map stored procedures using the Mapping node.
SQL Server Denali Contained Database Feature
(Ashish Kumar Mehta) While looking through the new features and improvements in SQL Server Denali, we found a potentially interesting feature called Contained Databases. A contained database basically includes all database settings and the metadata within itself thereby resulting in no configuration
Why Unit Test?
$$SWYNK$$ Why Unit Test? Unit testing is tests written by developers, not QA. The purpose of unit testing is to confirm that the code works, and fulfills the business rules. In an Agile Software Development Lifecycle, unit tests also function as requiurements documentation.. Unit tests also document how to use the code. If you need to know how a certain […]
Query Plan Re-use: Write your T-SQL queries with the proper case for plan re-use and better query performance
(Nakul Vachhrajani) I had an interesting time at the office recently. We were undertaking a performance tuning exercise for the canned reports of an OLTP that were migrated from Crystal Reports to SSRS, and had to come up with some ground rules for all database developers to follow when re-engineeri
In Support of DBMS_JOB
(Dom Brooks) DBMS_SCHEDULER – great set of functionality, vastly more powerful and flexible than DBMS_JOB but there is at least one thing that DBMS_JOB is still best suited for and that is why DBMS_JOB is still not, as far as I know, officially deprecated.
IDUG One Day Seminars
(Laura) There are some great one day seminars coming up at IDUG EMEA. Highlights include;
How to Quickly Create a Histogram in MySQL
(Shlomo Priymak) This is a post about a super quick-and-dirty way to create a histogram in MySQL for numeric values.
How to Write a Simple SVG animation
(Darla Ferrara) Animation can be complex, but that doesn’t mean you can’t write a simple SVG animation to make an image dynamic. Animation creates motion or action in a graphic. When you are first starting out designing your own moving pictures, you want to begin with something easy. For instances,
Insider: Design Patterns and Dynamic Runtime Configuration
(Peter Vogel) On a couple of occasions I’ve used Reflection to load classes at runtime rather than add references to those classes at design time. I won’t say that it’s made my applications easier to deploy, but I think that dynamic loading falls naturally out of object-oriented design principles.