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New Approach to Backup Acronis has been working hard to address some traditional issues with backup and recovery approaches for SQL Server. While it’s possible to do the whole database and transaction log dump and restore cycle to recover a system, Acronis has gone a step farther. They’ve created tools that help you recover to the point of failure – […]
Building Queries Visually
(Sue Harper) I’m often asked to describe the difference between Oracle SQL Developer and Oracle SQL*Plus. Their feature lists are indeed similar: both let you query the database objects you have access to; insert, update, and delete data by using data manipulation language (DML); add, alter, and del
Ajax overhaul, Part 1: Retrofit existing sites with Ajax and jQuery
(Brian J. Dillard) This first article in a series on overhauling existing sites with Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) shows you how to eliminate pop-up windows and navigational dead-ends with simple modal windows.
The Performance Woe of Binary XML
(Jimmy Zhang) Since its inception, XML has been criticized for the overhead it introduces into the enterprise infrastructure. Business data encoded in XML takes 5 to 10 times more bandwidth to transmit in the network and proportionally more disk space to store. While most agree that verbosity is inh
Working with Attributes and CDATA Sections with the DOM XML Extension
(Alejandro Gervasio) Undeniably, one of the most remarkable strengths of PHP is its robust set of extensions. They provide developers with the right tools to build a huge variety of web applications with minor hassles. And this characteristic is particularly evident when it comes to working with XML
Useful Extension Methods
(Brian Mains) Extension methods are very useful. They help extend the existing objects of .NET by attaching methods to it that it appears that it’s a part of the object, but it’s really not. Let’s look at some extension methods and how they can be useful.
Building a Standby DB2 Database using IBM System Storage N Series Technology
(Alex Osuna, Dale McInnis, Jawahar Lal and Roger Sanders) DB2 customers using IBM N Series storage systems at the back end must take advantage of advanced features of Data ONTAP such as SnapMirror, FlexVol, FlexClone, and RAID-DP to ensure data availability and reliability. These features combined w
Disabling Flash (AxShockwaveFlash) Right-Click Context Menu
(Mark Dryden) To be quite frank, after 3 months of ASP.NET development, the opportunity to do some down and dirty API programming really appealled to me today. So, the question (as indicated by the title) involved a member wanting to disable the right-click context menu from the Flash ActiveX compon