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Consolidating Your SQL Server World
Featured Article(s) A Question about Reports and Power Users Jim’s first question that I answered really was focused around diving deeper into SQL Server and how to do it. Along those same lines, Jim was looking at how the users of the databases have changed and the overall look at his reports. SSIS Help and Training Our friends at AppDev […]
Index Compression with DB2 9 for z/OS
(Paolo Bruni and Jeff Berger) Compression has been available for table spaces on z/OS since DB2 Version 2.3. In data warehouse applications, it is common to have many very large indexes defined on large tables. It is also possible that the index spaces exceed the size of the tables upon which the in
Viper 2
(Trevor Eddolls) Last week I was talking about AIX 6, which IBM is making available as an open beta – which means anyone can test it out so long as they report their findings to IBM. This week I want to talk about Viper 2, the latest version of DB2 9, which is also available as a download for beta […]
First Look at Visual Studio .NET 2008 and the LinqDataSource
(Dan Wahlin) Visual Studio .NET 2008 provides many new features that will definitely enhance developer productivity. In this video tutorial I provide an introductory look at VS.NET 2008 and show a few features such as multi-targeting, split view, and the LinqDataSource control. In the video you will
Understanding AJAX
(Rajdeep Mukherjee) AJAX promises to be the technology of choice for building fast and responsive web applications. AJAX was primarily designed and developed with the intent of addressing the challenges faced for developing high performance web applications. Although Ajax is independent of the techn
A Scrollable MessageBox in .NET and C#
(Mike Gold) This article demonstrates how to create a message box that contains messages that scroll. This message box also allows you to read the message in from a file as well as change fonts and color properties.
An Epilogue to Cryptography
(Barzan “Tony” Antal) This is the last part of a three-part series covering encryption and decryption, with a focus on the algorithms used. If you have missed either the first or second part, I encourage you to check them out before reading this part.
Rendering Images in ASP.NET Directly from Your Database
(Paul Kimmel) Time and again I have read articles about loading images on ASP.NET pages. All of the articles I have read suggest a variation on storing file system paths in the database and loading the URN (or path) to the image. But why should images be treated differently than text? Images are jus
Program with XML for DB2, Part 2: Leverage database support for XML in your application architecture
(Hardeep Singh) Learn how the new XML storage and query environment of IBM DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows plays into the XML data model described in Part 1 of this series. Part 2 focuses on how to exploit the improved database support for XML in your application architecture.