(Miguel de Melo) There is a common misunderstanding about the use of special characters by Xpath expressions in XSL and Xpath expressions in other languages, I’ll try to help clarify some of the myths in this blog.
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IBM releases DB2 adapter for SQLAlchemy
(Antonio Cangiano) A while ago I informally announced IBM’s intention to develop an SQLAlchemy adapter for DB2 and Informix IDS. Today, I’m happy to inform you that we have a first working release for DB2 on Linux, Unix and Windows (LUW). Support for Informix IDS is next (almost done), and after tha
Sorting Algorithms In VB
(Richard Newcombe) All too often in an application, there’s a need to sort a list of items. In this article, I will cover some of the more common sorting algorithms and give a few tips on choosing the right one for the job. I will cover the classic “Bubble sort” and “Insertion sort,” right through t
MySQL Cluster Features – what they are and what they do
(Johan Andersson) There are currently three derivates of MySQL Cluster 5.1: MySQL Cluster 5.1 MySQL Cluster 5.1 – Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) 6.2 MySQL Cluster 5.1 – Carrier Grade Edition 6.3
Selecting (XML) data directly from disk
(Marco Gralike) On the OTN XMLDB Forum, a question was asked if you could directly select from a XML file on disk, or to be more precise ” XQUERY / XMLTABLE Syntax to read and XML from a Windows local drive?”. I had the idea that this could be easily done, nowadays via XMLDB functionality. So I trie
More on how much transaction log a full backup includes
(Paul S. Randal) In a previous post (see here) I debunked a myth about how much transaction log a full backup would include. I had a question in the blog post comments that asked (paraphrasing): The full backup has to include all the transaction log from the begin LSN of the oldest active transac
The Architecting Magic Behind Taking Mash Ups Offline
(Eric Farrar) As the line between the desktop and the web blurs, more applications are taking advantage of the best of both worlds. Adobe AIR and JavaFX are prime examples of frameworks that benefit from this union. However, as services deliver more of an application’s functions, the offline problem
Generating daily usage statistics
(Bernd Kuennen) Sometimes you’ll want to know how many logins there’re on your web site and how the daily usage profile looks like. Usually the first attempt to evaluate this is to copy some log files or unload some database table which holds the login information and then import it to Excel or a si
.NET Debugging Demos Lab 2: Crash – Review
(Tess Fernandez) I realize that you probably haven’t all had a chance to look at the Crash lab yet, considering I just published it on Friday but here is the review for it. I have to say that considering the amount of downloads for the buggy bits site I am a bit surprised with the lack of questions
The most misunderstood character in MySQL’s SQL-Dialect
(Roland Bouman) Many MySQL users like to use the MySQL monitor. The MySQL monitor is the executable bin/mysql (or if you are on MS Windows, binmysql.exe) and is perhaps better known as the MySQL command-line tool or MySQL command-line client.