(Mark Strawmyer) Welcome to this installment of the .NET Nuts & Bolts column. The focus of this article will be on highlighting the local type inference feature that has been added to C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9.0 languages. You’ll touch on what it is, the syntax behind it, and why it is relevant
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ASP.NET v2.0 (IV): Data Source Controls, data bound controls and databinding (B)
(Chris Sully) This article is part 2 of the fourth in a series looking at ASP.NET 2.0 though it follows on from my earlier overview articles on the subject. Here’s what we’ve covered thus far: I: we looked at the enhancements to existing controls. II: we proceeded to provide an overview of the
Implementing Common Reference Data in a Data Warehouse
(Shyam Mohapatra) As businesses mature day by day, there is less margin for inefficiencies in the business operation. As the complexity in running a business grows, people are looking for ways to simplify and standardize process, implement corporate governance and extract more value out of informati
Basic Collections
(Peyton McCullough) Programming involves manipulating objects. However, often objects are not isolated. Rather, objects often only make sense in context with other, similar objects. Because of this, it becomes necessary to organize objects. There are two methods of organization: arrays and collectio
Tip: Avoid unnecessary Ajax traffic with session state
(David Mertz) Where possible, creating Web applications — including Ajax-based applications — in a RESTful way avoids a large class of bugs. However, a pitfall of REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is sending duplicate data across similar XMLHttpRequests. This tip shows how the moderate use of s
System Statistics and Impact of Clustering Factor on Cost Calculation…
(Vivek Sharma) This is in continuation to my previous post (Impact of Clustering Factor on Cost Calculation posted on 5th November 2007).
Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.3/2 – Working with CLOB Fields
(Venkatakrishnan J) I recently came across a question on an internal forum wherein the question was whether OBI EE has support for CLOBs? As you would already know, BI Publisher has native support for both CLOB and BLOB fields. Unfortunately, there is no document that states the support/de-support f
10 Minute HOW-TO
(Antony Curtis) This question seems to crop up again and again… In the words of one comment to my blog: “I’ve downloaded your External Language Stored Procedures package and am interested in trying out the JAVA part. Would appreciate if you could explain how use the downloaded stuff.”
Viewing Partition Slice Information
(Chris Webb) The other week I discovered that it was possible to view the partition slice information discussed here using the DISCOVER_PARTITION_DIMENSION_STAT schema rowset. I’ve always thought it would be cool to be able to visualise this information so you could easily check to see whether your
How to Build a Profile Script to Monitor SQL Server off Hours
(Gregory A. Larsen) SQL Server Profiler is a valuable tool for monitoring activity against your SQL Server environment. With this tool, you can monitor numerous events depending on what kind of performance problem you are trying to track down. This tool is normally used in real time, where the event