(Willie Favero) Sorry about that.. my bad… It seems like lately I have been so focused on things DB2 10, that I forget that there are still other very active Db2 versions floating.
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XML Manipulation in Application code vs. a Native XML Database
(Matthias Nicola) XML processing is at the core of many middleware systems, often to route, split, or modify XML messages, or to extract values from them. Frequently, such XML processing is implemented with XSLT stylesheets or in application code with DOM or SAX parsers.
MySQL CPU-bound performance: 5.1, 5.5 and the Facebook patch
(Mark Callaghan) I did more performance tests with MySQL 5.1.47 unmodified, 5.5.8 unmodified and 5.1.52 with the Facebook patch. Some of the results are interesting so I will document them here for future reference.
Create md5 hash-code using assemblies in SQL Server 2005
(Denis Strukachev) It’s very simple create md5 hash function in such languages like C# or VB.Net. But in some cases it’s nessesary to implement md5-hash algorithm on SQL Server. Unfortunally, SQL Server does not have hash function like md5 and writing T-SQL script is not good idea too. Performance o
Create clock in SSRS using Gauge and AutoRefresh Property
(Chintak Chhapia) In SSRS, there is a report level property AutoRefresh. If we set this value, report will automatically refreshed after specified number of seconds in HTML rendering. The value for the AutoRefresh element must be between 0 and 2147483647.
Creating ASP.NET 3.5 Admin Pages using a Query String in a Master Page
This is the continuation of part one, which ran on Tuesday of last week. After deleting the styles ( ) in the head section of MasterPage.master, you will need to create an external CSS to solve the relative URL problems in the website.
Call a Method Asynchronously using Delegate BeginInvoke and EndInvoke Pattern
(Suprotim Agarwal) In this article, we will explore multiple ways to call a method asynchronously using Delegates. You can call methods asynchronously in four different ways using the BeginInvoke() and EndInvoke() methods of the Delegate class.
Consuming ASMX and WCF Services using jQuery
(Bipin Joshi) In the previous part I demonstrated how jQuery animations can add some jazz to your web forms. Now let’s see one of the most important feature of jQuery that you will probably use in all data driven websites – accessing server data.
SQL Server Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2010
(Arshad Ali) As a database developer you always want to ensure stored procedures, UDFs (User Defined Function) and triggers perform as expected. And more importantly you want to ensure that a change in an existing SP, UDF or trigger does not break the functionality. That is to say, you want to have
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