(Kyle McClellan) The other day someone asked me how to get a ComboBox working with enums and validation. It turned out to be more tricky than I had anticipated (there’s a common theme here…) so I figured I’d put together a quick post on it.
Other News
Finding things within some distance in SQL
(Baron Schwartz) One of the query optimization scenarios I’ve seen a lot over the years is finding something within some distance from a point. For example, finding people within some distance of yourself, apartments in a radius from a postal code, and so on.
Where can I get a Flashbook?
(Susan Visser) First, what is a Flashbook? This is a name that I made up to describe the short, easy-to-read books that we publish for conferences such as IBM’s Information on Demand Conference. IBM delivers a huge quantity of messages and content at the conferences, in newsletters, in blogs, and
Quickly creating, deploying and testing a WebService interface for ADF Business Components
(Lucas Jellema) As you probably already know, ADF Business Components can very easily be exposed through a WebService interface. An Application Module can be configured with a Service Interface, ordinary ViewObjects and custom methods can be exposed in that interface and deployment is relatively str
SQL SERVER – 2008 – Unused Index Script – Download
(Pinalkumar Dave) Performance Tuning is quite interesting and Index plays a vital role in it. A proper index can improve the performance and a bad index can hamper the performance.
XQuery for the Non-Expert – Substring() Function
(Jason Strate) Within the value() and query() methods it is sometimes desirable to return a portion of a string. Similar to T-SQL, there is a substring function in XQuery that provides this functionality.
Captcha for aspx using VB.NET
(John Faris) To reduce the incidence of spam and reduce the likelihood of denial of service attacks, many web pages include an image block with distored text, known as a Captcha.
Impact of indices
(Shinguz) It is generally well known that indices help a lot to speed up database queries (especially SELECT but also UPDATE and DELETE). It is less known, that indices also have some disadvantages.
DB2 LUW Performance: Using the vi editor – Part 2
(Scott Hayes) On Christmas Day, while delayed at the Atlanta airport, I wrote a quick tutorial blog on using the vi (very intuitive) editor. In my haste to get on my delayed flight, I ran out of time to share some more important vi “how-to’s” with you. So, here’s “Part 2” which includes more vi tech
Weblogic domain scale up using EM Grid Control 11gR1
(dmitry.nefedkin) As you know a weblogic domain consists of set of servers running independently or in a cluster mode, sharing the distributed resources. And in most environments weblogic cluster consists of multiple managed servers running simultaneously and working together to provide increased s