(Eric Vogel) The Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) is an open source library provided by Microsoft that that enables support for multiple dynamic programming languages. The DLR is not a replacement for the CLR but rather is built upon the CLR. There are many dynamic programming languages that have DLR
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Dumping BLOB’s from the MySQL database
(Shinguz) A customer who is handling digital certificates had a problem with one of those. So we had to investigate.
Take advantage of fragment-level statistics and smarter statistics in IBM Informix
(Nita Dembla) Keeping statistics up to date is a regular part of the maintenance of relational databases. However, running update statistics itself incurs overhead. Learn how new features in IBM Informix V11.7 help you to improve efficiency by determining when you really need to run update statistic
Understanding SQL Server’s inserted and deleted tables for DML triggers
(K. Brian Kelley) I’m trying to put triggers on an existing database, but I am having a hard time understanding how to use the inserted and deleted tables. They make sense when I’m dealing with an INSERT or DELETE operation, but how about an update? And do they contain a single row per row of data c
Ten Worst Things to do In a Database – Day 3
Ten Worst Things to do In a Database – Day 3 We are working on building a list of the "Ten Worst Things to do in a Database". I developed a list of 15 items to start out the conversation. Yesterday we had a lot of feedback from readers. Today is the last day to add new items to the […]
Ten Worst Things to do In a Database – Day 2
Ten Worst Things to do In a Database – Day 2 Yesterday I started a series entitled "Ten Worst Things to do in a Database". My list was too big…so we’re going to have a vote this Thursday and Friday. I’ll have a question setup on Facebook this Thursday so you can vote for your top 3 worst practices out […]
The Stealthy Ascendancy of JSON
(Lori MacVittie) It looks like the debate between XML and JSON may be coming to a close with JSON poised to take the title of preferred format for web applications.
Extend SugarCRM REST web services to use XML
(John Mertic) With the introduction of SugarCRM 5.5, the entire web services framework was invigorated not only to add REST support to complement the existing SOAP support, but also to enable developers to customize the web services in an upgrade-safe way to help support their business applications
RUNSTATS and REORG-2: How to automate runstats
(Sameer Kumar) Well in last post I talked about importance of runstats and reorg for a db2 database…
AJAX Using RESTful MVC3 Services and jQuery
(David Talbot) REST is an approach to providing a highly efficient API that can be called by other applications or by your AJAX framework. MVC3 makes it easy to define REST services in your controllers to be called by jQuery AJAX requests in your view.