(Lynn Munsinger) JDeveloper 11 Technology Preview (build 4524) introduces a new way to create and manage database connections. Database connections can be defined for an application (called an Application Resource connection), or ala 10.1.3.x, for the IDE as a whole (called a Resource Palette / Data
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C# and VB code mixed together in ASP.NET 2.0
(Nipun Tomar) In ASP.NET 2.0 you can use C# and VB.NET web forms together in one web site. But if you want to use classes coded in different languages, Such mixing is not allowed by default settings. However you can configure web site to get this done. This article drill down to achieve this.
Using the Enterprise Library Validation Application Block in ASP.NET – Part II
(Alex Homer) This article shows how you can take advantage of the validation features within the Validation Application Block, part of version 3.0 of Enterprise Library, in your ASP.NET applications. The block supports both UI and object validation, and you can combine these approaches using the sam
Building a User Control that Displays RSS Feeds Using a DataList and an XmlDataSource Control
(Scott Mitchell) Displaying data in ASP.NET verison 1.x required writing code to programmatically retrieve the data and then more code to bind the data to a data Web control, such as the DataGrid. ASP.NET 2.0 simplifies the process of working with data through its data source controls, which allow d
DB2 UDB Enterprise Edition V8.1: Basic Performance Tuning Guidelines
(Alex Osuna and Roger E. Sanders) IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) is configured to run on any system that meets its minimum hardware requirements. As a result, the basic configuration provided must be tuned to achieve optimum performance on systems that exceed the these requirements. Tuning a s
DB2 Tablespaces Pages Full
Occasionally, if the tablespaces in db2 isn’t system managed, it can get full. Your application might fail from… DB2 SQL error: SQLCODE: -289, SQLSTATE: 57011, SQLERRMC: TBSPNAME
Manual Standby Database under Oracle Standard Edition
(Sean Hull) Oracle’s Standby technology has been rebranded as DataGuard in recent versions of Oracle. Oracle has added a layer of technology automation on top of the standby technology, making automatic Standby technology seamless. But what about the folks on Standard Edition Oracle? Are they left o
DataStage 8 Tutorial: Using Range Lookups
(Vincent McBurney) DataStage 8 comes with some range lookup functionality within the lookup stage, a feature that came in at number four in my My top ten features in DataStage Hawk. A field on an input link can be compared to two fields on a lookup link or vice versa using a between clause returning
Analysis Services Query Performance Top 10 Best Practices
Proper cube design, efficient multidimensional expressions (MDX), and sufficient hardware resources are critical to optimal performance of MDX queries issued against a SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services instance. This article lists the ten most common best practices that the Microsoft SQL Server deve
MySQL Cluster SQL Tips
(Brian Moon) So, I mentioned in my MySQL Cluster post that I found out that cluster and joins don’t get a long too well. There are a couple of tips I have for using joins or replacing them with other techniques that I thought I would share.