New Show Released Disaster Recovery Planning (and Response) – this show, sponsored by Acronis, will go into things to think about, steps to take and the "how" and "why" of setting up a solid disaster recovery and response plan. From a disk going bad to even more catastrophic failures, you need to know this information so you can do your […]
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New and updated Informix, U2, and DB2 Training Courses
(Kate Dawson) If you are interested in advancing your skills this spring, why not take one of our new or updated training classes?
Movable DOM Node Widget
(Matt Snider) One of my favorite pastimes is playing and collecting video games, which combined with another of my passions, JavaScript, drives me to figure out ways to port simple gaming engines into JavaScript. JavaScript is not the best language for writing such engines (at least not in the brows
Avoiding IT Errors with a .NET Slant
(Stephan Onisick) Do any of the following real-life examples feel vaguely uncomfortable because they’re too familiar? –A copy-and-paste operation in which key variables don’t get changed to reflect their new use. (Even more embarrassing when copy-and-paste code is found while working on another
Calling a Web Service from an SQL Integration Services package
(Simon Bonello) The SSIS framework provides the Web Service task which executes a Web service method. You can use the Web Service task for the following purposes: –Writing to a variable the values that a Web service method returns. –Writing to a file the values that a Web service method retu
Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.3/2 – UDML to automate repository Updates – Migration of Repositories from Development to Test/Production Environment
(Venkatakrishnan J) One of the very important features of BI EE is its ability to expose the entire repository in the form of UDML. There are 2 utilities that are available for any user to expose the repository as UDML. They are nqudmlgen.exe and nqudmlexec.exe. Though the use of UDML is not support
Constraint Exclusion when it fails to work
(Leo Hsu and Regina Obe) Constraint Exclusion is a feature introduced in PostgreSQL 8.1 which is used in conjunction with Table Inheritance to implement table partitioning strategies. The basic idea is you put check constraints on tables to limit what kind of data can be inserted into it. Constraint
Using XSLT to Generate Code
(Josh Petrie) The last time I talked about XSLT was quite a while ago. I was using XSLT to generate wiki markup for both my personal projects and for SlimDX. It’s worth noting that we have abandoned the wiki markup documentation in SlimDX, however — it didn’t look or operate as nice as we would have
Profound Ships New Web-Based DB2/400 Editor
(Alex Woodie) Profound Logic last week announced from COMMON the general availability of iData, its new Web-based database editor for DB2/400 that it first unveiled late last year. The company will sell three versions of the tool, including one version that’s free and other versions that allow users
Don’t sweat migrating legacy .NET projects to Visual Studio 2008
(Tony Patton) I’m always a bit apprehensive when moving to a new development tool or a new version of an existing tool because of the possibility of breaking existing code and projects. Little did I know that migrating to Visual Studio 2008 would be such a breeze.