(Howard Rogers) I think one of the greatest challenges I am going to have writing a blog is trying to limit how much I write, I had this huge list of items I was going to touch on for my first real blog entry. Then I realized it was about 3 weeks worth of work and would probably be of […]
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Using the Exception Handling Block in Enterprise Library 3.0
(Thiru Thangarathinam) By default, the .NET Framework includes a number of classes that convey information about exceptions generated by the application. Whenever an error occurs in a .NET application, the .NET Framework catches it and raises the associated exception to the application. It is up to
Automatic Compression in DB2 9.5
(Chris Eaton) I have written a number of blog postings on Compression in DB2 9.1 (just search my blog by putting the word Compression in the search box on the top right corner of this page to find them).
TechTip: Access XML Web Services with JavaScript
(Mike Faust) In a previous TechTip, I introduced you to the JavaScript objects used to access XML Web services via Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX). This time, I’ll expand on what I covered last time and show you a working sample of a Web page.
GridView With ObjectDataSource
(AzamSharp) In this article I will show you how you can use the ObjectDataSource with the GridView control to do editing, updating, deleting and adding new records. There are several ways to perform these operations, I am using the simplest approach. The project files are also attached with this art
Oracle Database 11g: SQL Performance Advisor, Part 1
(Jim Czuprynski) Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11gR1) features the new SQL Performance Advisor that promises to ease significantly the workload of busy Oracle DBAs because it provides a way to accurately evaluate complete database workloads for “before versus after” performance changes. This articl
Oracle BI Publisher 10.1.3.3.1 – Web Services – First Impressions
(Venkatakrishnan J) I was going through the new BI Publisher feature of 10.1.3.3.1 which is the Web Service APIs. Till the earlier release we only had Java APIs. But in the latest release we have the SOAP APIs or the WSDL APIs so that any end user can access the reports remotely using standard web s
Cross browser conditional validation
(Scott Davis) I had a very interesting requirement on one of the pages I was working on in my latest project recently. It of course had to render correctly in both the latest version of IE and Firefox. Not too difficult to do. It had to use our existing masterpage. Ok, again, not difficult at all.
Statistical Indexes
(Buck Woody) SQL Server 2000 and 2005 both use a “cost-based” optimizer to quickly locate data in its databases. I’ve mentioned the Query Processor in another tutorial, and in this tutorial I’ll explain one of the tools it uses to find the fastest way to your data.
Service Broker Advanced Basics Workbench
(Adam Machanic) In the first part of this workbench series, we covered the foundations: Setting up message types, contracts, queues, and services, and sending and waiting for messages. This second part extends on the first. We’ll get in to some of the catalog views that you can query to find out wha