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New SQLonCall Show, BizTalk and More
New SQLonCall Show Interviews; MaximumASP (can even get a free SQL Server 2008 database), BinaryTree, and more. Chris also talked with Data Dynamics, K2 and Telerik. > Watch The Show Here > Also, Catch the Latest SQL Server SelectViews Show Featured Article(s) Understanding Microsoft BizTalk Server (Part II) In the first part in this series we have had an introductory […]
More on XML Namespaces in VB….
(Bill) A couple of weeks ago I wrote about XML Namespace issues in VB: one in particular was to do with namespace declarations being repeated in the output XML. In those cases we only looked at common namespaces for the entire document.
ASP.NET Caching
(James Sullivan) In this article, I would like to share my experience and knowledge about ASP.NET Caching and how it can improve your website performance. As you all might know that performance is key requirement for any application or piece of code that you develop. For mission critical website, Ca
Working on a large XML or SOA project: think about ‘separation of concerns’
(Tugdual Grall) With XML and SOA becoming mainstream in the enterprise XML operation such as Schema validations, XSL transformations are now very common. These specific operations are CPU intensive and could become a performance bottleneck when directly applied on the middleware. It could be even wo
VBScript: Multidimensional Arrays, Statements, and Commenting
(James Payne) We left off discussing variables and arrays in our last tutorial. I hinted at the existence of the mighty multi-dimensional array, but ran out of time before I could discuss this beast. However now I have an entire article to fill, so prepare to be amazed…multidimensionally.
Tip: Parsing RDDL documents with PHP
(Vikram Vaswani) The Resource Directory Description Language (RDDL) lets document authors provide more information about resources used within an XHTML document. Parse these RDDL descriptors with an API in the XML_RDDL package from PEAR, and extract resource information for use in any PHP applicatio
Create A Data Access Layer (DAL) without writing any code
(Martin Millar) You spend a lot of your time writing very repetitive code just to grind out standard objects that mirror your database tables and all of the CRUD operations that goes along with this. If only there was a way to take care of this and allow us to dive straight into the business logic a
Be careful rotating MySQL logs
(Peter Zaitsev) If you enable logging of all queries as “slow queries” using the patch or MySQL 5.1 you can get log file to grow huge. Same may happen with general log file. In some cases we’ve got log file sizes of 100G or more which may need to be cleaned up.
DB2 for z/OS Version 8: What we learned from upgrade planning
(Willie Favero) It has been more than three years since IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) for z/OS Version 8 became generally available. Since that time, we have learned quite a bit from some of the initial installations. One of the significant lessons learned is that planning is essential to the suc