(Martin Millar) There are a number of ways to implement a JavaScript delete confirmation in a GridView. Most of these involve changing the command columns on the GridView into template columns. From here you can either add the onClientClick code to the template directly or serch for the control on t
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PHP Developers Don’t Need Silverlight—Or Do They?
(Justin Whitney) Silverlight gives a lot of love to .NET coders, especially those versed with Microsoft development tools like Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and the new Microsoft Expression Studio. But PHP developers have a lot to benefit from, as well. In fact, using the Silverlight runtime, XAML, P
SHOW PROFILES in MySQL 5.1
(Giuseppe Maxia) The patch for SHOW PROFILE has been ported to MySQL 5.1.
Installing Oracle 11g RAC on VMware ESX 3i – Part1
(Tarry Singh) In our last article, we looked at some benchmarking opportunities with the free tool Swingbench. We learned to install it and in the coming articles (in the administration series), we will focus on testing it. Hopefully the beta versions will include Oracle 11g tests, as we are very cu
Partitioning
(Buck Woody) Partitioning is the act of dividing up data onto different hardware or logical locations. Most database systems, even older manual file/table based versions, partition data. And it’s the heart of a relational database system to split data into multiple tables.
Visual Studio has Released
The Weekly SQL Server Show – Watch Now This show is an interview with Kim Tripp and Paul Randal. We got together at DevConnections in Las Vegas and talked about everything from the famous board game to SQL Server 2008. > Watch Here SQL Power Tools for Power Solutions You may not yet have heard about ZUI, but you’ll want […]
Threaded Engine in DB2 9.5
(Chris Eaton) One of the biggest new features in DB2 9.5 (and one of my personal favorites) is the new threaded engine. In DB2 9.1 and all prior releases on AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and Linux, the DB2 engine was process based. That means that all functions run in operating system processes. For example e
Lunch with DB2 launched
(Ian H) I am both happy and proud to announce that our latest DB2 education effort — “Lunch with DB2” — has been launched today.
Getting Started with DB2 Web Query for System i
(Hernando Bedoya, Jackie Jansen, Gene Cobb and Renee Mason) The DB2 Web Query for System i product is a Web-based query and report writing product that offers enhanced capabilities over the IBM Query for iSeries (also commonly known as Query/400) product. IBM DB2 Web Query for System i includes Quer
Navigating XML Files in .NET
(Jeff Cogswell) Over the past decade or so, XML has proved an incredibly powerful means for storing data. If you’re writing a .NET application, you can make use of XML in your own applications using a set of classes specifically for processing and navigating XML.