(Willie Favero) You may remember back on July 13, 2007 in a post called “A “bandage and an aspirin” for your compiler frustrations with DB2 V8″, I wrote about the DB2 Version 7 precompiler being ported to DB2 Version 8 to enable you all to move off of V7 and upgrade to V8 without worrying about upd
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(Jennette Mullaney) Ajax application security is slowly becoming a priority, but much of the information about Ajax security is inadequate, incorrect or simply unavailable. Those warnings come from SPI Dynamics’ Bryan Sullivan, development manager and SPI Labs’ team leader, and Billy Hoffman, reside
Using the PrintDocument component in VB.NET applications
(Irina Medvinskaya) If you want to allow users to print form components in run-time, the PrintDocument component lets you offer users this functionality. The PrintDocument component is an object that allows users to send an output to a printer from Windows Forms applications. In this tip, I show you
Use PHP to create XForms, Part 2: Using the PHP XForms library to create useful XForms
(Tyler Anderson) This two-part article seriess is designed to get PHP developers up to speed in leveraging Web 2.0 XForms forms for their PHP forms development so that they can finally put their outdated Web 1.0 HTML forms away. In Part 1, you created the PHP XForms library. In this article, Part 2,
Query Profiling with MySQL: Bypassing caches
(Peter Zaitsev) Quite frequently I run into question like this “I’m using SQL_NO_CACHE but my query is still much faster second time I run it, why is that?
Build a Web application without writing any code, Part 1
(Eric Long) Learn how to build a robust Web application using Rational Application Developer, DB2, and WebSphere Application Server in this two-part series. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to install, set up, and configure trial versions of Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software, D
Adaptive Cursors and SQL Plan Management
(Arup Nanda) By now many of you have heard an earful about how using bind variables enhances performance; for those who haven’t, let me try to explain the core concepts in as simple manner as I can.
Microsoft Windows PowerShell and SQL Server 2005 SMO – Part 7
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) This installment of the series illustrates how to use PowerShell in conjunction with SMO to display SQL Server Objects.
How to get the name of the day of date
(Simon Sabin) Do you have a date and you want the day of the week but not the number but the name i.e. Monday, Tuesday etc. Well there are two functions that you can use with dates that can be used to extract a part of the date. One function returns the number and one returns text version. The funct
Creating a SQL Server Stored Procedure Generator using WPF
(Brian Mains) Stored procedures provide the ability to perform some action against a database and have some advantages to querying data from an application. First and foremost, it reduces the amount of redundancy and has a performance gain when multiple calls are executed. In addition, it does not h