(Marco Gralike) The official launch is at hand. In less than 3 weeks Oracle 11g will be presented at the world during a, probably, great launch event in New York. AMIS entered the beta test program in the end of Juli, early August 2006. It was the first time we participated in beta testing and I thi
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Tuning LAMP systems, Part 3: Tuning your MySQL server
(Sean A. Walberg) Applications using the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl) architecture are constantly being developed and deployed. But often the server administrator has little control over the application itself because it’s written by someone else. This series of three articles discusses man
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Video Programming for IT Professionals
Styles and Control Templates
(Chris Sells and Ian Griffiths) A style is a set of properties applied to content used for visual rendering. If you want to learn more about styles in Windows, you’ve come to the right place.
PHP on i5/OS: A Whole New Stack
(Erwin Earley) Development and deployment of Web-based applications is one of the most common activities in today’s IT world. For development of Web applications a development stack, consisting of an operating system platform, Web server, database engine, and scripting language is often employed. Wi
The Bounding Box, corrected version
(Hugo Kornelis) In a previous posting, I explained a minor problem in the “Bounding Box” and “Dynamic Bounding Box” algorithms I describe in chapter 9 of Adam Machanic’s book Expert SQL Server 2005 Development. In short, the problem is that I calculated the boundaries of the search area just a tiny
Health Monitoring in ASP.NET 2.0: Raising Custom Events
(Scott Mitchell) As discussed in previous articles in this article series, ASP.NET 2.0’s Health Monitoring system is designed to monitor the health of a running ASP.NET application in a production environment by recording event information to a specified log source. The Health Monitoring system incl
Multi-dimensional modeling in Oracle SQL
(Bob Watkins) A spreadsheet is often used as an example of a relational table. Its rows and columns are similar to the rows and columns in a database table. At the intersection of each row and column is a value.
Database mirroring in SQL Server 2005
What is database mirroring in SQL Server and how can it benefit your environment? SQL Server database administrator Eric Johnson starts by outlining the three roles involved in database mirroring: principle, mirror and witness. He goes on to share the types of mirroring solutions for High Availabili
Microsoft’s Lineup of SQL Server Related Webcasts for July 2007
Four new webcasts are scheduled for July, covering such topics as “Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 and SQL Server 2005”, “Manageability in Microsoft SQL Server 2008” 2005 and more.