(Jonathan) I have been talking about many theories in the past and in my last post, I decided to start doing something instead of just talking about it.
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Have you seen the Silverlight? – So what is Silverlight?
(Dave Wheeler) So you want fancy, sexy streaming media in the UI? And you want cool animations, fancy glow-in-the-dark buttons and decent, scalable vector graphics? And you want to run your application in a browser on both Windows and Mac OSX? If you’re already reaching for your copy of How to Wow w
Disabling an ASP.NET Button when Clicked
(Damon Armstrong) I was answering a question in the ASP.NET forums on Simple-Talk.com (click here you want to check it out) about how to avoid the issue of users submitting multiple page requests when they click on buttons. My first inclination was hey, just disable the button after they click it a
Manage Unknown Members in Analysis Services 2005, Part II
(William Pearson) In Part II, we will continue to gain an introduction and hands-on exposure to managing Unknown Members within our sample cube. We will resume our procedures with the sample cube that we created in Part I.
Caching and Pooling
(Arup Nanda) Accessing memory is far quicker than accessing hard drives, and that will most likely be the case for next several years unless we see some major improvements in hard drive architecture. This fact gives rise to caching: the process of storing data in memory instead of disks. Caching is
Ask Ben: Converting XML Data To ColdFusion Queries
(Ben Nadel) I work at a veterinary hospital and am generating xml from an IBM UniVerse DB which may or may not contain multi-valued data, and parsing/displaying it via CF8. I have written custom java classes take the user input from the cfform, handle the db transactions and pass back an xml object
Playing with Media in Silverlight 1.0
(Wei-Meng Lee) My previous article on getting started with Silverlight provided an overview of Silverlight in general and also covered how to execute managed code in a Silverlight 1.1 application. This article explores one of Silverlight’s key capabilities—rich media experience. To this end, you wil
Keeping Historical Data for DB2 Performance Analysis
(Robert Catterall) I’m sure that many of you have seen this before: a performance problem arises in a DB2 for z/OS environment. The hunt begins for a root cause. Eventually, it comes to light that a significant application change effected about four weeks ago might be the source of the problem. To h
Large result sets vs. compression protocol
(shodan) mysql_connect() function in PHP’s MySQL interface (which for reference maps to mysql_real_connect() function in MySQL C API) has a $client_flags parameter since PHP 4.3.0. This parameter is barely known and almost always overlooked but in some cases it could provide a nice boost to your app
Demystifying Replication
(Eric Johnson) One of the biggest mysteries of SQL Server seems to be replication. I receive more calls from clients asking for help with setting up or fixing replication than I do for just about any other SQL Server component. The good news is that while replication has a lot of moving parts, it’s