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Oracle XE + AJAX: Asynchronous XML in Action
(Przemek Piotrowski and Mark Townsend) This article covers the process of building a real working AJAX application on top of Oracle’s free database software. The demonstration takes advantage of features integrated directly into Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle XE), the Embedded PL/SQL Ga
Ajax and progressive browser enhancement
(Mark Birbeck) Progressive enhancement is an approach to web development that has been around for a few years now. (More on PE at Wikipedia.) At its most basic it suggests building our web pages in a ‘clean’ and uncluttered way, and then layering functionality onto the mark-up using various mechanis
Explorer.exe and Visual Basic.NET 2005
(Hannes du Preez) As many of you know, explorer.exe is the Windows Program Manager or Windows Explorer. It manages the Windows Graphical Shell including the Start menu, taskbar, desktop, and File Manager. For example, if you were to open My Computer from your desktop, explorer.exe runs; if you were
Another new DB2 9 certification exam!
(Susan Visser) This one is Exam 732 – DB2 for z/OS V9 Database Administration exam.
Analyzing lockwait situations in DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
(Dirk Fechner) When several DB2 users access a database concurrently, lockwait situations can cause bad response times. Locks on database objects cannot be avoided, as locks are essential for database integrity. But in many cases it is possible to limit the number of locks for transactions to a mini
Implementing Waiting Pages in ASP.NET
(Gaidar Magdanurov) One thing users do not like about Web-applications is waiting for some long-running process to finish without knowing if it is really working or not. There are few greater frustrations than looking at the screen and think “What’s going on?”, while the application performs some un
Using Java Classes in your .NET application
(Raja Kishore) Suppose you have been asked to migrate an existing multi-tier application to .NET, where the business layer is written in Java. Normally, you would have no option but to recode and port the entire application to the .NET language (e.g. C#). This is where IKVM.NET comes to the rescue!
Oracle 11g: We finally have case sensitive passwords
(Lewis Cunningham) From the latest Oracle 11g docs: Increased password security with support for case-sensitive, multibyte passwords, and strong password-hashing algorithms, such as Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-1) and salt Additional secure-by-default configuration settings supporting password p
Query Comprehensions
(Scott Wisniewski) In the June 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine, Kit George and Ting Liang provided an introduction to some of the new features being introduced in Visual Basic 9.0 to support Language Integrated Query, or LINQ. In particular, they showed how LINQ is a universal data platform designed to