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Call for Comments: Images in the Database?
New Videos Posted: Watch: Food for Thought: Direct SQL Good Idea/Bad Idea? What is it?!? Find out why you should avoid direct SQL. Watch: Upcoming Events in the Database World Watch: Full SelectViews Show with these and other segments Featured Article(s) Understanding Windows Share Point Services A human being’s need for communication is as strong, instinct and as basic as […]
A full house wins – IOD 2007 update
(Willie Favero) Things are really going great now at IOD. Just about every session I have attended in the last couple of days has been filled to capacity. I’m not sure if I’m just picking the really popular topics or everyone is out of gambling money and they’re now attending sessions (I’m just joki
XForms Thick Clients
(Jack Cox) All designers and developers face the problems of vague requirements, poorly defined data models, and last minute requirement changes. These sad facts of life drive some developers to embrace a document-driven architecture,but this approach usually breaks down when confronted with an envi
An Important Usage of col_usage$ view
(Vivek Sharma) COL_USAGE$ view is used internally by the optimizer when gathering statistics on columns. An option method_opt under dbms_stats control the use of this view. When method_opt is specified as ‘For all columns size auto’ (default in 10g), this view is used to get the information of each
XML Handling in Microsoft SQL Server 2005
(Ivan Pepelnjak) If you have to store loosely structured data (or data in which the structure is expected to change significantly in the future) in a relational database, it might be best to store the less rigid part of the data in XML format, using the traditional table columns to store just that p
Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008
(Daniel Moth) Explore Ribbon customisation. If you are a managed developer (e.g. Windows Forms) then you’ll find that you already have the skills for extending Microsoft Office applications with your code. Visual Studio 2008 makes it really easy and that is what I demonstrate in this 20′ video. (vi
Plan your Recovery Strategy with Database Rebuild
(Radhesh Kumar) With the increasing demand of storing more and more data, the size of databases are growing very fast. RDBMS technologies are evolving around supporting the bigger databases and providing faster access to data. IBM with its DB2 UDB has been a key player on such technological developm
Leverage OmniFind text analysis results with your relational database, Part 2: Combine semantic search with structured query results
(Sebastian Nelke) IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition is full of features and functionalities that allow you to build up powerful, high value applications and solutions based on IBM’s enterprise search functionality. Part 1 of this series described in detail how to store selected text analysis results a
Error message when you bind a DataGridView control to an Access database in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Consider the following scenario: • You have a Windows Form application in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 on a computer that is running Windows Vista 64-bit edition. • You create a DataGridView control. Then, you bind the DataGridView control to a Microsoft Access database. • You run the applic