(Patrick Steele) Just as a car factory creates cars on an as-needed basis, we can create “factories” in our code to create objects for our applications’ specific needs. In this article, we’ll explain what the factory pattern is and how you can use it in your code to make your applications more flexi
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Turning Modes On And Off Within A Regular Expression
(Ben Nadel) Most regular expression engines have at least some support for flags and modes within their patterns. Flags such a (x) Verbose, (i) Case-Insensitive, and (m) Multiline change the mode of the regular expression matching which, of course, changes the type of text that can be matched.
Subterranean IL: Exception handling 1
(Simon Cooper) Today, I’ll be starting a look at the Structured Exception Handling mechanism within the CLR. Exception handling is quite a complicated business, and, as a result, the rules governing exception handling clauses in IL are quite strict; you need to be careful when writing exception clau
SEQUENCE in SQL Server 2011
(Dinesh Asanka) SQL Server 2011 (or Denali) has now arrived CTP. In this article I will look at a core new feature of SQL Server 2011 which is SEQUENCE. Well, if you are familiar with Oracle, you will already know all about this feature since it has been standard on Oracle more than 10 years I guess
Top 10 MySQL Best Practices
(Rob Gravelle) Many groups and individuals are involved in the field of data management, from MySQL administrators, architects, developers, as well as infrastructure support people. Each of these plays a part in the security, maintenance, and performance of a MySQL installation.
DB2 pureScale Trial and Demo Kit
(Conor O’Mahony) IBM has prepared a DB2 pureScale Trial and Demo Kit. With this kit, you can run a DB2 pureScale trial environment on 3 physical servers (any generic x86_64 hardware or even a set of VMware images).
Use Dojo TreeGrid to manage WebSphere Process Server workflow
(Wang Qiang, He Gu Yi and Ruan Qi) IBM WebSphere Process Server is a powerful business process management platform. Its built-in process management tool, Business Process Choreographerý, supports multiprocess management. With Web 2.0 booming, though, users want to customize the management user inter
Rollback of Transaction(s) after SHUTDOWN ABORT
(Hemant K Chitale) There has been a recent forums thread on what happens in terms of recovery when a database instance is restarted after a SHUTDOWN ABORT.
ASP.NET and jQuery to the max – Part 2
(Gianluca Negrelli) In this article I would like to speak about two important arguments that contribute to make our new way of programming more complete and flexible.
Oracle Database 11g new feature – Automatic Memory Management
(Advait Deo) Automatic Memory Management was a new feature introduced in 10g. With 10g release oracle has come up with anew parameter called sga_target which was used to automatically manage the memeory inside SGA.