(Alessandro Del Sole) In this article I want to show you how to write the content of a Visual Basic structure into a binary file. This can be useful since the various methodologies exposed by the .NET Framework (like FileStream, BinaryWriter and My objects) can write to binary files only data types
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Speeding up GROUP BY if you want aproximate results
(Peter Zaitsev) Doing performance analyzes today I wanted to count how many hits come to the pages which get more than couple of visits per day.
SQL Server 2005 Database Mail Setup and Configuration Scripts
(Tim Ford) One of the most welcome SQL Server 2005 enhancements over its predecessors is Database Mail. Database Mail is built on the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) as compared to SQL Server 2000 Mail which used a buggy and temperamental MAPI client causing significant frustration. Just like
XML Serialization/Deserialization in C#
(prpradip) Object Serialization is a process through which an object’s state is transformed into some serial data format, such as XML or a binary format. And of course, Deserialization is reverse process.
Importing an Excel Spreadsheet Using Typed DataSets and TableAdapters: Displaying the Uploaded Excel Spreadsheet
(Nannette Thacker) In Building the Importer Web Page and Uploading the Excel Spreadsheet we created an interface for users to upload an Excel spreadsheet to the web server with the end goal being that a user could import the uploaded spreadsheet’s data into the application database. Before importing
XML processing in Ajax, Part 2: Two Ajax and XSLT approaches
(Mark Pruett) Part 1 of this series introduced a problem specification: to build a weather badge that can be inserted easily into any Web page. The weather badge is constructed using Ajax techniques and uses data provided by the United States National Weather Service (NWS). That NWS data is provided
More on Regular Expression enhancements in Oracle 11g
Today we will talk about enhancements made to REGEXP_INSTR and REGEXP_SUBSTR functions which are available since Oracle 10g. A new parameter sub-expression is introduced in REGEXP_INSTR and REGEXP_SUBSTR functions. This parameter takes in an integer value 0 to 9. The integer value indicates which su
Useful CodeSmith Templates
(Brian Mains) In two previous articles, I wrote an introduction for CodeSmith that illustrated how to setup a template, along with another article using the SchemaExplorer assembly. For the last article in the series, I want to display a couple of useful templates that may help you when you develop
Creating Data Bound Templated Control
(Bipin Joshi) Data bound controls are most popular amongst developers because of their verticality. Controls such as GridView and DataList are popular not just because they provide rich features out of the box but because they allow great deal of customization. To that end templates go a long way i
A DB2 Thread of a Different Type
(Robert Catterall) I was in Sydney, Australia last week, representing the International DB2 Users Group Board of Directors at the 2008 IDUG Australasia Conference (a really outstanding event this year). One of the sessions I attended was a half-day seminar on the internals of DB2 V9.5 for Linux/UNIX