(Rob Gravelle) Just when you thought that you understood the term Web 2.0, along comes this Cloud thing. Do you know what that’s all about? Do you care? What does that have to do with your MySQL database?
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Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Practices
(W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla) Database failures are often a matter of when, not if. This three-part article series walks you through the best practices for backing up and recovering Oracle Database XE.
Hook into Wikipedia information using PHP and the MediaWiki API
(Vikram Vaswani) Wikipedia is the ultimate online encyclopedia, containing millions of entries on different aspects of human knowledge. Web application developers are able to access and search these entries through the Wikipedia API. This article introduces the Wikipedia API and demonstrates it in t
How to change SQL Server parameters in a clustered environment when SQL Server is not online
When you use Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Configuration Manager, SQL Server 2005 Configuration Manager, SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager, or SQL Server 2000 Setup to change SQL Server parameters in a clustered environment, you have to make changes on the active node while the SQL Server cluster resou
FTP directly in SQL (Using SQL CLR)
(Justin Porteous) Working with a complex SQL environment which used a multitude of technologies, one of the problems we encountered was using SQL Jobs to transfer files via FTP.
Object.create() Improves Constructor-Based Inheritance In Javascript – It Doesn’t Replace It
(Ben Nadel) Last week, I blogged about Prototypal inheritance in Javascript, demonstrating that poor constructor logic can break the underlying inheritance mechanism. In that post, as well as in the one regarding private variables and Javascript constructors, people pointed out that Javascript’s Obj
Binding Data to Web Performance Tests
(Steven Smith) Web Performance Tests provide a simple means of ensuring correct and performant responses are being returned from your web application. Testing a wide variety of inputs can be tedious without a way to separate test recording and input selection. Data binding provides a convenient and
CSS Sprites and the ASP.NET Sprite and Image Optimization Library
(Scott Mitchell) Because browsers limit how many concurrent HTTP requests they make to a website, a web page with many small icon images can result in a longer load time. This article shows how to combine many small images into a single larger image – a CSS sprite – using the free ASP.NET Sprite and
Tuning SQL at the Senate
(Ives Brant) You wouldn’t think that U.S. senators and their staff would impose an overwhelming volume of queries on a financial system. Complex SQL and “senator” seem as oddly matched as, say, politics and rhetoric-free campaigns. Yet on an average weekday, the queries come by the thousands. DBAs e
What is a business rule really?
SelecTViews WIth Stephen Wynkoop All the news of the day that counts is provided here.. also, find out about normalization, what types of skills might be good for specialization and upcoming learning events…We keep you informed and up to speed on tips tricks and more. [Watch the Show] What is a business rule really? Now we’re really getting down to […]