(Vadim Tropashko) Graphs and trees are ubiquitous data structures. They don’t easily fit into Relational model; therefore querying them requires a little bit more ingenuity than routine select-project-join.
Other News
Managing Database Entries (tnsnames.ora)
(oraclenerd) For the past 18 months or so I’ve been arguing that if you would just manage your tnsnames.ora file, things would be much easier. I’m talking about through your various SDLC environments, DEV –> QA –> PROD.
HTML5: Attributes, semantic markup, redefined elements
(Ryan Boudreaux) The HTML5 specification, while not entirely finished, is scheduled to be near completion sometime around the year 2020 or 2022 timeframe; however, currently most browsers do allow for several attributes, semantic markup, and redefined elements and these are just some of the changes
How to parse XML with PHP5
(Ray Villalobos) Feeds are streams of content that people can use to share pieces of information across websites. PHP5’s simpleXML functions dramatically simplify the process of interpreting the feeds into something useful for your web pages.
Retrieve Data from SQL Server with ASP.Net
You might wonder what would be a more flexible and customizable solution to retrieve database content in ASP.NET, aside from the most common method, which seems to be a combination of SqlDataSource and Gridview, or with web controls such as DetailsView.
Easing the pain of database change
(Laura) Most DBAs (Database Administrators) specialise in one type of database whether it is Oracle, SQL Server or DB2. They will build their careers working with their chosen database.
Optimize your Tablespaces and Bufferpools-2: Tablespace Sizing
(samkumar) We will discuss sizing of tablespaces and their separation… We will wind up with little on temp tablespaces…
The ultimate MySQL high availability solution
(Henrik Ingo) A while ago Baron blogged about his utter dislike for MMM, a framework supposedly used as a MySQL high-availability solution. While I have no personal experience with this framework, reading the comments to that blog I’m indeed convinced that Baron is right. For one thing, it includes
XML data filter in Windows Phone 7
(Riya Sehgal) XML offers a widely adopted standard way of representing text and data in a format that can be processed without much human or machine intelligence. It is also an important medium in the world of Silverlight especially where Web Services are involved the Information formatted in XML ca
Database Mirrors with Differing Vendors
(Dr Bob) Developers are often confronted with an Enterprise-crucial database from a vendor where the risk of even reading data during production hours can be very high. One low-level solution is to beg for text file extractions from the crucial production DBA folks.
