(Elliotte Rusty Harold) The wheels of progress turn slowly, but turn they do. The crystal ball might be a little hazy, but the outline of XML’s future is becoming clear. The exact time line is a tad uncertain, but where XML is going isn’t. XML’s future lies with the Web, and more specifically with W
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Improve Code Performance with the VSTS Code Profiler
(Nick Wienholt) The Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) Profiler ships as part of the Developer Edition product, and is now in its second version with the release of VSTS Team System 2008. The initial release of the VSTS Profiler was the first profiler that shipped as part of the Visual Studio/VSTS pro
.NET Debugging Demos Lab 1: Hang
(Tess Fernandez) This is the first in a series of about 10 labs on .NET debugging. The lab will use a site called BuggyBits, and as the name suggests the bits are extremely buggy.
An Object-ive View of Data
(Robert Catterall) My introduction to the idea of a logical data structure came back in 1982, during my first year out of college (Rice U in Houston) and my first year as an IBM employee (first of my 17 years with Big Blue). I was training to become an IBM Systems Engineer (field technical support p
Random Expressions
(Ravikiran Durbha) From regular to random expressions! or maybe I should say psuedo-random.
CodeSnip: Selecting the nth Record from a Table Using Oracle
(Deepankar Sarangi) In this code snippet, the author examines the usage of Oracle’s ROWNUM keyword to select the nth row of a table. It also deals with the other possible methods of selection along with the risks involved in using them. The article begins with a short introduction followed by releva
Navigation using Treeview Control and SQL Reporting Services 2005
(Michael Richards) I spent several hours sifting through article after article about how to build tree navigations dynamically. They assumed that the order of the data coming in was ‘orderly’ and that you were usually using the IE Web Control toolkit which is a .Net 1.0 package. In our environment 2
Unusable space in MySQL Key Buffers
(John Dzilvelis) What started out as a key buffer efficiency study turned to a fruitless search for ways to overcome a somewhat high ( ~20%) amount of unusable key buffer space. This behavior seems to be platform and version independent as I observed this with versions 5.0.45, 5.0.52, and 5.1.22 on
DECFLOAT: The data type of the future
(Naresh Chainani) This article explains the new DECFLOAT data type in IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. DECFLOAT is compliant with the industry standard IEEE754r specification. By leveraging hardware support, DECFLOAT provides applications with a performance advantage over using the DECIMAL data
Converting XML Schemas to Schematron (#12): Some better diagnostics
(Rick Jelliffe) One simplification I have made in the XSLT code presented so far is that except for datatypes I have elided the issue of diagnostics. Yet the ability to provide better diagnostics is one of the value propositions for Schematron. So lets quickly add in some diagnostics!