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PostgreSQL Advocates Press On
(Brian Prince) Advocates of PostgreSQL say the open-source database is continuing to slowly win converts even as it remains in the shadow of the more widely used MySQL.
Of Sobriety Tests and Loop Iteration
(Chris Falter) A few years ago I listened in fascination to a radio interview with a highway patrol officer who was describing how she conducted field sobriety tests. In addition to the typical tests of walking in a straight line and of standing on one foot, she would ask the erratic driver to reci
Process XML Configuration Files with PHP
(Sajjad) As a general rule, when you develop any reasonably-complex piece of software, it’s a good idea to take time to identify the product’s key configuration variables, and then separate these from the standard variable namespace and place them in a separate area.
Updating XML with XQuery 1.0
(Marc Van Cappellen) I was reading an interesting discussion yesterday on xquery-talk, replacing a node in in-memory XML.
Compile-Time Warnings for Oracle DB 10g
(Steven Feuerstein and Bill Pribyl) In this fourth part of a nine-part series on managing PL/SQL code, you will learn about the compile-time warnings that were introduced in Oracle Database 10g Release 1.
Archiving 101
(Anthony Shorten) One of the most common questions I get about the products I work with is an overview of the inbuilt Archiving functionality.
BACKUP and RESTORE SYSTEM [DB2 9 for z/OS]
(Craig Mullins) I am posting today’s blog entry from Athens, Greece as I participate in the European IDUG conference. Good thing I know how to use the Blogger site because when I log in over here in Greece the text on their site is all converted into Greek – and as I’m sure comes as no surprise to a
Taking an ASP.NET 2.0 Application Offline
(Scott Mitchell) In a perfect world, once a web application has been deployed and is live on the Internet or intranet, it will never experience any downtime. However, this is not very realistic in the real world because most applications grow and change and get updated over time. For example, as use