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What the Oracle Database can do for your Data Warehouse
(Greg Partenach) There are many MANY times I write a particularly difficult query or PL/SQL package and I realize that I am re-inventing the wheel. Reinventing the wheel = BAD. (unless there is something nifty in there that hasn’t been done before).
BI Publisher EBS Bursting 101: A tutorial/case study including Bursting Control File to email Suppliers Remittance Advice in 1 easy step
(Gareth Roberts) Here’s a brisk case study into the power of core BI Publisher functionality in combination with the Oracle eBusiness Suite with a focus on Bursting.
IBM Raises Prices on Zend PHP Tools, Tweaks DB2 Web Query Charges
(Timothy Prickett Morgan) As part of its price change announcements last week, IBM radically increased the prices it charges for various production PHP software for the OS/400 and i5/OS platform from Zend Technologies. The company also tweaked some prices up and down for the new DB2 Web Query databa
Handling HTML Strings and Files with the DOM XML Extension in PHP 5
(Alejandro Gervasio) The DOM XML extension has a few additional methods that can be used to process HTML files and strings, at least at a pretty basic level. Thus, this fifth part of the series will be entirely focused on explaining how to work with these methods. I will include some illustrative co
Validating an XML Document
(Leonard Anghel) The following code shows you how to use the DOMImplementationLS and DOMConfiguration classes to validate an XML document only when an XML Schema is present:
Using Vertical and Horizontal Table Structures in Oracle
(Vlad Kofman) In this article, I will analyze different ways to organize data in a database. In my examples, I will be utilizing Oracle, but any other relational database would suffice. There are both advantages and disadvantages to these methods of relational database data organization and I will d
Of Tables and Constraints
(Kenneth Downs) Yesterday was Easter, one of those holidays that affects my schedule for preparing these essays. So this week we are going to interrupt the series on queries and do a special essay on constraints. Next week we will be back to queries.
CodeSnip: Using the Windows Indexing Service with ASP.NET and C#
(Brett Burridge) The Windows Indexing Service is used to index files via the file system and allow them to be searched through a set of API’s. One popular use of Indexing Services is to provide a website search facility for websites hosted on Internet Information Services (IIS).
Supporting Complex Types in Property Window
(Bipin Joshi) Whenever you set any property of a control in the property window, the property window needs to save this property value in the .aspx file. This process is known as code serialization. For properties that are of simple types (such as integer and string) this code serialization happens