(Chris Eaton) For those that have been using DB2 for some time or those coming from other data servers, you are likely familiar with the RESTORE command. With RESTORE, you specify the backup image you want to restore (indicated by the timestamp the backup was TAKEN AT) the media you are restoring fr
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How to harness the power of XHTML and XForms in your .NET applications
(Phil Booth) XForms is an important recommendation from the W3C that enables complex XML-handling applications to be defined in a simple, declarative syntax. This article demonstrates how you can harness this technology in your own C# applications. However, the same techniques may be easily applied
Simulating Multiple Inheritance by Delegation
(Joseph Chahine) Multiple Inheritance is still not considered to be a best practice in most cases. That is why it is not supported in both .NET and Java programming languages. But sometimes, it can be helpful. In this article, I will explain a way to simulate Multiple Inheritance in .NET by using th
Cartesian Products and Permutations of Groups Using C# Generic Iterators
(Matthew Cochran) Many problems we run into as developers deal with slicing and dicing groups of objects. In this article I’ll cover building a library of utility methods using C# object enumerators to perform group permutations and find Cartesian products of groups.
VB 2005 : How To Move Items Up a ListBox
(Ged Mead) I had to revisit this problem recently and so had to recall how I did it. Here’s the scenario: You have a ListBox and a Button. User selects an item in the ListBox. If they want to move that item up the list they click the button. They can keep clicking the button until the item reac
XML-Enabled Applications – Part 4
(Yuli Vasiliev) Another variation on accessing and manipulating XML content stored in Oracle database is provided by Oracle XML DB repository, which is an essential component of Oracle XML DB.
Installing Oracle 9 on RHEL4
(David) Installing Oracle 9i on RHEL4 isn’t difficult but requires a certain set of pre-installation actions that aren’t very well documented in the Oracle official installation readme.
DB2 Encryption Support Keeps Improving
(Craig S. Mullins) In this data-breach and regulation-laden world we currently find ourselves working in, the topic of data encryption has become increasingly popular. If we encrypt our sensitive data then only authorized folks who know the decryption key will be able to access it. And that signific
UNION vs UNION ALL Performance
(Peter Zaitsev) When I was comparing performance of UNION vs MySQL 5.0 index merge algorithm Sinisa pointed out I should be using UNION ALL instead of simple UNION in my benchmarks, and he was right. Numbers would be different but it should not change general point of having optimization of moving L
Combining an Oracle Database with PHP to Manage Data
(Deepak Vohra) PHP is the one of the most commonly used scripting languages. The Oracle database is the most commonly used commercial database (according to Gartner, Inc.). PHP and the Oracle database make a great combination suitable for developing web applications. The PHP Oracle extension may be