(Frank Houweling) In this blog I will show you how you can call a webservice programmatically in Java without using a webservice library like JAX-WS or Apache Axis. In some cases this can be useful and quick; for example if you only need some small specific parts of the SOAP response XML tree or whe
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The DB2Night Show #56: DB2 LUW Data Warehouse Tuning
(Scott Hayes) 94% of our studio audience indicated they learned something! (6% of our audience was IBM people! ha! ) Kate Kurtz, Gregor Meyer, and Haider Rizvi from the IBM Best Practices Teams shared with us their tips and insights on how to optimize the performance of Data Warehouse databases.
Attempt to split @@optimizer_switch
(Sergey Petrunia) Three years ago MySQL has got @@optimizer_switch variable. It was introduced in MySQL 5.1.34, that is, we needed it so much that we’ve added it into the stable release.
Mapping of Physical Disk, LUNS, Cell Disks, and Grid Disks
(Fahd Mirza) Exadata machine comprises of compute nodes and the cell nodes. Compute nodes host the RDBMS and ASM instances along with Oracle homes, whereas the cell nodes contain data.
How expensive are literals?
(randomdba) As a follow-up to my last post I finally got around to writing a small program to demonstrate the difference between bind variables and literals, the test is a simple c++ program the reads a text file and updates 27,000 rows in a single table. The code runs the updates in three different
ADF 11g R2 Improvement – ADF Table AutoHeightRows Property
(Andrejus Baranovskis) There are lots of new features in ADF 11g R2, one of them improved handling for ADF Table AutoHeightRows property. Read my previous blog post, to understand how this property was supported in ADF 11g R1 – ADF Table AutoHeightRows Property.
Design Elements Part 3: Error Handling
(Buck Woody) It’s ironic that one of the most frequent code errors is… not dealing with errors. No matter how trivial the process may be, the code should recover or bail out of any error that occurs.
Replication in MS SQL Server
(Keshav Singh) There are a lot of people who subscribe for magazines like readers digest or India today or get organizational news update every month in their mail box.
Manual Validation with Data Annotations
(K. Scott Allen) Several people have asked me about using data annotations for validation outside of a UI framework, like ASP.NET MVC or Silverlight. The System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations assembly contains everything you need to execute validation logic in the annotations.
Creating and Using a CAPTCHA in ASP.NET MVC
(Bipin Joshi) A CAPTCHA is a challenge-response system wherein typically a dynamically generated image consisting of random letters and numbers is displayed to the users and the users are asked to re-enter the text in an attempt to verify that both of them match.