(Darla Ferrara) First Objective Software, Inc. is a company out of Virginia operated by developer Ben Bryant. Among the offerings from First is a free XML editor called, appropriately, First Objective XML Editor or FOXE.
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Finally, development across platforms in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
(Robert Sheldon) One of the most exciting new features slated to be included with the release of SQL Server 2011, code named Denali, is a toolset Microsoft says will advance the art of database development. This new feature—tentatively named SQL Server Development Tools (SSDT) and code-named Juneau—
Where Does Node.js And Require() Look For Modules?
(Ben Nadel) In the last week or so, I’ve started to experiment with building server-side Javascript code for Node.js. When you build a Node.js application, you can use the global require() method to load and cache Javascript modules.
ASP.NET MVC3 Caching
(David Talbot) ASP.NET MVC3 builds on the caching abilities found in previous versions of ASP.NET and adds partial page output caching to your toolbox. Partial page output caching allows you to cache the rendering of a specific action on your view to enable your site to run faster.
EF Code First and ASP.NET MVC Scaffolding of CRUD Actions and Views
(David Hayden) In the previous tutorial, ASP.NET MVC 3 Scaffolding with Entity Framework – Code Generation, I showed how to use the new Add Controller Dialog provided in the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update to scaffold CRUD Actions and Views with Entity Framework.
Considerations When Building Database Schema with Federations in SQL Azure
(Cihan Biyikoglu) When working with federations, database schema requires a special consideration.
MySQL 5.6: Index Condition Pushdown
(Olav Sandstå) Index Condition Pushdown (ICP) is one of the new optimizer features in the MySQL 5.6.2 milestone release. The goal with Index Condition Pushdown is to move as much as possible of the processing of conditions (mainly WHERE clauses) from the server to the storage engine.
Reality Check: SQL PL Profiler and plan explain with actual row counts
(Serge Rielau) For the past months I have been tinkering on and of with the “new monitoring API” which has been introduced in DB2 9.7.
XML ETL with DataStage 8.5
(Matthias Nicola) Since XML has become so pervasive in enterprise computing and service-oriented architectures, it is a given that XML capabilities are required in all parts of an IT environment. Closely related to the area of databases is ETL – to extract, transform, and load information, e.g. to
db2connectactivate for direct connections to Db2 z/OS
(Jan Koblenzer) Many shops are using or have been using the JCC T4 drivers to establish a direct connection to DB2 z/OS. If your site does this or is headed towards this gate-less architecture for DB2 Connect, you might want to review the db2connectactivate utility.