(Bonnie Baker) The phrases “optimistic locking” and “built-in optimistic locking” are part of the language of DB2 for z/OS, and they’re often used in conjunction with the word “performance.” These phrases lead me to wonder. Is there such a thing as “pessimistic locking?” Why the qualifying adjective
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Columnar Databases, Job Schedules and SQL Server
Watch The Latest SQL Server Weekly Show Here Last chance to catch last week’s show before the new show posts tomorrow. > Watch Here Featured Article(s) Stopping your Jobs on a Schedule Do you ever need to make sure a job does not run in the next production day? If your code can be sectioned off to do smaller pieces, […]
Persisting the scroll position of child DIV’s using MS AJAX
(Steven Berkovitz) While the ScriptManager and UpdatePanel found in Microsoft AJAX do a good job of persisting your pages scroll position during partial post back operations, you might be surprised to find out the same is not for scrollable child DIV’s contained within an UpdatePanel.
Securing Applications in ASP.NET 2.0
(Uday Denduluri) Securing an ASP.NET application is one of the toughest challenges programmers face. The reason for this is simple. All applications evolve from time to time. It would have been bliss for programmers if the websites do not change and remain static.
Finding and Listing Processes in C#
(Scott Lysle) This article shall describe a very simple approach to finding out information regarding the processes currently running on a machine. The demonstration application includes a collection a methods that may be used to search for specific processes using different criteria or to list out
COPY Improvements [DB2 9 for z/OS]
(Craig Mullins) Next up in this sub-series on IBM utility improvements in the larger series on DB2 V9 features and functions we will take a look at the new “stuff” in the IBM COPY utility.
DocBook: Write Once, Read Anywhere Documentation
(Lara D’Abreo) DocBook is an OASIS standard for creating technical documentation in XML. The documentation from Spring or Hibernate is generated from DocBook. Particularly suited for computer-related content, DocBook is a set of XML tags, defined by a Document Type Definition (DTD) and XML schema fo
LINQ to SQL (Part 9 – Using a Custom LINQ Expression with the control)
(Scott Guthrie) Over the last few weeks I’ve been writing a series of blog posts that cover LINQ to SQL. LINQ to SQL is a built-in O/RM (object relational mapper) that ships in the .NET Framework 3.5 release, and which enables you to model relational databases using .NET classes. You can use LINQ