(Kurt Cagle) Recently I passed both my 44th birthday and my 15th wedding anniversary, just signed my daughter up for high school and was told by my doctor that my HDL was soundly thrashing my LDL. My beard, which I’ve worn since my early twenties, is now streaked with gray (a curse of red hair, I fe
Other News
Four names you’d never expect to see on DB2mag.com: Vanity Fair, Bono, Africa, and Bill Clinton
(Kim Moutsos) While on vacation last week, I snagged a copy of the July 2007 issue of Vanity Fair, which delves into Africa today. The issue contains articles on Desmond Tutu’s continuing fight for equality (this one written by former U.S. president Bill Clinton), funding AIDS drugs for impoverished
Using UpdatePanel Inside Templated Controls
(Bipin Joshi) ASP.NET AJAX provides many ways to improve user experience and performance. One of the most common way is undoubtedly the UpdatePanel control. The UpdatePanel control provides partial page rendering capabilities to your web forms. Commonly developers place data bound controls such as G
Encrypting configuration data in ASP.NET 2.0
(Tony Patton) I’ve covered how to work with configuration files in ASP.NET 2.0 and explained configuration file processing, now I’ll show how to protect data stored in a configuration file via encryption and describe new features available in ASP.NET 2.0. I begin with an overview of the encryption o
CLONE Tables [DB2 9 for z/OS]
(Craig Mullins) This new feature in DB2 V9 might sound like an old monster movie (Invasion of the Clone Tables!!!), but it is actually a nifty new capability for managing DB2 data availability. Cloning is basically a method of entirely refreshing all of the rows of a table while maintaining availabi
Testing for DW/BI – Current State and a Peep into the Future
(Arun Sundararaman) Just as with any other software application involving different technologies (such as the mainframe, Java or Microsoft), testing is a very crucial phase in the software development lifecycle for data warehouse/ business intelligence (DW/BI) projects. Testing for DW/BI carries uni
.NET Tip: Take Advantage of Interfaces
(Jay Miller) Take advantage of interfaces to make your code cleaner and more reusable. A simple example of where interfaces can be applied is in populating UI controls. How many ListBox controls do you have to populate in your web application? One solution is to write the code to populate each ListB
Perform SQL Queries Using Google-Style Syntax
(Dina Fleet Berry) How would you like to enable searching of your SQL server data using Google syntax instead of using Transact-SQL? Because of the commonality of the Google Search syntax, web users find it simple to allow access to construct a Google’s search syntax query. This article will show ho
DLinq (Linq to SQL) Performance Part 5
(Rico Mariani) This posting is the last of what I had planned in this series but I think there are likely to be questions, especially when Orcas Beta 2 is more widely available so we’re likely to talk about this some more.
Getting Inside the Optimizer – Part 2
(Steve Callan) As mentioned in a previous article, one of the benefits of being able to examine alternate execution plans derived from an original SQL statement is seeing how Oracle attempts to come up with a different approach. The different approaches can be divided into two areas: the use of hint