(Martin Brown) In this third article of a four-part series, you will develop a simple blogging application that takes VoiceXML (VXML) as input and saves the data into your online blog. You will also learn to use this type of voice blogging to great advantage when you create tweets, or Twitter entrie
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Accessing User Profiles with ASP.NET AJAX
(Dan Wahlin) Providing users with personalized pages is one of the more popular trends in Web applications today. Many Web sites track the content users want to see and how they’d like it organized, among many other miscellaneous details.
Importing Access applications into Apex
(Patrick Sinke) Some time ago I’ve been experimenting with the Apex 3.0 feature that migrates entire Access applications to Application Express. It took me a lot of time because I found out the path to it is winding and bumpy. I would like to share some of my issues here. A very good tutorial is fou
Boost Web Service Performance in JAX-WS with Fast Infoset
(Young Yang) XML message transmission and processing are at the foundation of the web service programming model. To effectively improve web service performance, you need to reduce the overhead associated with parsing, serializing, and transmitting XML-based data. Fast Infoset is an open, standards-b
Enhance applications with the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit
(Tony Patton) While the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions from Microsoft provides you with basic AJAX support, the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit extends this support by offering more controls and by allowing you to create controls. See how you may use the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit in your applications.
DB2 9 for z/OS Performance Topics
(Paolo Bruni, Kevin Harrison, Garth Oldham, Leif Pedersen and Giuseppe Tino) DB2 9 for z/OS is an exciting new version, with many improvements in performance and little regression. DB2 V9 improves availability and security, as well as adds greatly to SQL and XML functions. Optimization improvements
SQL Performance Analyzer
(Arup Nanda) In a previous installment of this series you learned about Database Replay, that great tool for capturing the real workload in your database and replay them at will. Database Replay is part of what Oracle calls the Real Application Testing option, with the emphasis on the word "real"—th
Restore your SQL Server database using transaction logs
(Tim Chapman) Most DBAs dread hearing that they need to restore a database to a point in time, especially if the database is a production database. However, knowing how to do this is of the utmost importance for a DBA’s skill set. I’ll walk you through the steps of how to restore a SQL Server databa
Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services Using SAN Snapshots
(Chris Webb) Those people on the SQLCat team have been busy: yet another white paper is out, this time on scale-out using SAN snapshots. You can download it here:
Avoid enclosing Indexed Columns in a Function in the WHERE clause
(Bill Graziano) When a function is wrapped around an indexed column in the WHERE clause it will usually prevent the proper usage of that index. This article gives an example and discusses what other options are available.