(Greg Spall) The following functions convert decimal numbers to binary and binary numbers to decimal.
Other News
Using LINQ to XML to process Open XML: The SpreadsheetML Class
(Eric White) This post describes the SpreadsheetML class (derives from the OpenXmlDocument class), which presents one approach for using LINQ to XML with Open XML spreadsheets.
Cross Site Authentication and Data Transfer
(Tom Zhang) With the increasing need of using third party services, such as e-commerce, convention registration, web content management, etc., transferring user (customer) data from our database to a third party service provider becomes more frequent and more complicated. Due to different data stora
Four Ways to Keep LAMP Secure
(Carla Schroder) The Apache HTTP server has a great security record, at least when it runs on Linux or any proper Unix-type operating system. But plain old static read-only Web sites are an endangered species; now we have all this LAMP guff (Linux, Apache/Lighttpd, MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQLite, Python/PH
Backup compression in SQL Server 2008
(Tibor Karaszi) Having a few moments to spare, I decided to give this a spin. Specifying for the backup to be compressed is really simple. Just specify COMPRESSION in the WITH clause of the BACKUP command.
ENV_SYS_INFO and other views in DB2 V9
IBM introduced some new administrative views in DB2 V9, widely known as viper. These new administrative views belong to the schema SYSIBMADM. Some of the important administrative views are: • ENV_SYS_INFO: Returns information about OS, CPU and Memory. • ENV_INST_INFO: Returns information
Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.32 – Displaying BLOB images – Using Pl/SQL Gateway
(Venkatakrishnan J) I had received a couple of emails last weekend on how to go about displaying images stored inside an Oracle Database as a BLOB field in OBI EE. Well, i have had this question asked before by some customers with whom i had interacted in the past. So, i thought of blogging about it
IBM buys again with in-memory DBMS grab
(Martin Veitch) IBM has spent most of the year buying software companies so it shouldn’t surprise us that it has had its lawyers and bean counters busy this festive season to sign a deal announced today to buy Solid Information Technology.
Convert-Xml with XSLT in PowerShell
(Joel ‘Jaykul’ Bennett) Just a quick post to upload a simple PowerShell script that transforms XML files with XSL files. There’s actually a cmdlet in PowerShell Community Extensions which does this, but believe it or not, in all my tests the script outperforms the cmdlet (the cmdlet takes, on averag
The fallacy of the data layer — or, a new architectural model for software designs
(Rocky Lhotka) It is commonly held as a truth that applications have a UI layer, a business layer and a data layer. In most of my presentations and writing I use a four-layer model: UI, business, data access and data storage. In this case the “data storage” layer is really the same as the traditiona