(Scott Guthrie) Last week we released several new web products – including ASP.NET MVC 3. We’ve had a bunch of great feedback and a ton of downloads since then.
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Adding Attributes to Your XML and Understanding Special Characters
(Darla Ferrara) Attributes are instructional data that helps define and process an XML component. If you are familiar with HTML, then you know all about attributes. For example, the attribute may provide a name to create pairings between elements, such as date. Adding attributes to your elements wil
Using Multiple Database Platforms
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What Would You Do If..?
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Drop Materialized View takes a long time
(Apun Hiran) Recently I had to drop a couple of large Materialized View.
Parsing XML and Namespaces
(Sidney de Koning) Lately i’ve been working on a AS3 implementation of an online music API. (Will release it soon to the public domain!).
Build portable XSLT utilities
(Lewis Marshall) XML documents created for authoring projects such as help systems, maintenance documentation, and wikis tend to be complex and heavily dependent on inter- and intra-document linking. In this practical guide, create lightweight utilities that help you automate repetitive XML document
Column name Vs Ordinal number
(Madhivanan) Sometimes developers use ordinal number of the column instead of actual column name in the SELECT statement.
Analysing Temp usage on 11GR2 when Temp space is not released
(Coskan Gundogar) We had an interesting issue on our 3 node cluster about the temp usage. One night one of the critical batch operation which never used high temp suddenly hit “ORA-01652: unable to extend temp segment by string in tablespace string tips”. Once we check the system we saw some “inacti
Why XML columns have a length of zero
(Henrik Loeser) One interesting question when looking at the meta data of tables is why XML columns don’t have a length.