(Jeni Tennison) The XSL Working Group gave some comments recently on the Last Call Working Draft of XProc. One of the comments was about a bunch of standard steps that we’ve specified which do things you can do in XSLT, such as renaming certain nodes. These steps generally use XPath expressions or X
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TechTip: Pseudo Journal—Estimate the Overhead of System i Journaling
(Kent Milligan) System i customers can receive lots of benefits from journaling their DB2 tables and files. First, journaling improves the recoverability of your databases, whether you’re trying to recover from a system failure or an uncompleted business transaction. Journaling is required for any a
Increase productivity in Java database development with new IBM pureQuery tools, Part 3: pureQuery rapid application development
(Sonali Surange, Shahneela Rahman and Mark Hager) With IBM pureQuery platform and Eclipse tools, rapidly build simple, high-performing data access layers and applications with much less code than JDBC and much higher productivity than any other Eclipse-based tools. (R)
MySQL 5.1 auto-inc patch in action: InnoDB scalability test
(Alexander Rubin) I’ve recently done a quick scalability test with MySQL 5.0 and 5.1 to check the new auto-inc patch with InnoDB and to see how MySQL 5.1 scales with InnoDB:
Adding Drag-and-Drop Functionality using the .NET Framework and Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition
(Albert Raiani) Learn how to use the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools Second Edition for the 2007 Microsoft Office System to add drag-and-drop functionality to your custom .NET Framework application.
Query Expression Pattern: implementing your own Linq source
(Robert Verpalen) Linq, the wonderful new world of querying anything you can create a wrapper around 🙂 By default Linq supports any IEnumerable interface, which means every collection, list, array and a whole range of other objects implementing IEnumerable can be used as a source for Linq quer
Create Your Own Mailing List Server with .NET 2.0
(Wei-Meng Lee) If you’re a developer, chances are that you’re no stranger to mailing lists. A mailing list contains of a group of users who are subscribed to receive regular emails pertaining to a specific topic. Usually, the process is automated—you send an email requesting to be added to a list an
Eight Ways to Hack Oracle
(Sean Hull) Oracle is touted as being unbreakable, if talk weren’t so cheap. Well as with any computing system, there are ways to hack it, and Oracle is no exception. In this piece, we’ll talk about some of the ways that you can get at data you’re not supposed to. We’ll start by taking the perspecti
Using NHibernate as an ORM Solution for .NET
(David Consdorf) NHibernate is an ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) solution for .NET that provides an easy to use framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a traditional relational database. Handling the myriad of database queries and stored procedures for large applications can become
Update SQL Server table statistics for performance kick
(Denny Cherry) Statistics are a very important and much unappreciated part of Microsoft SQL Server. In basic terms, statistics are metadata about the data within a table and they’re created and updated on a column-by-column basis, not on the entire table. The database engine employs statistics when