(Sam Hiser) An open, XML-based standard for displaying and storing data files (text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations) offers a new and promising approach to data storage and document exchange among office applications.
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ASP.NET Master Pages Tips and Tricks
(Dan Wahlin) With the release of ASP.NET 2.0, developers were given a simple and effective way to apply a consistent layout across multiple pages in a website. By creating a file with a .master extension that defined a website’s overall layout template and referencing it with the Page directive’s Ma
Do You Want to Ignore Clustering? [DB2 9 for z/OS]
(Craig Mullins) DB2 9 for z/OS offers a new DDL parameter for your tables: APPEND. If you specify APPEND NO, which is the default, DB2 will operate as you are accustomed to it operating. That is, when rows are inserted or loaded DB2 will attempt to sequence them based on the clustering index key.
Protect sensitive data with .NET 2.0’s SecureString class
(Tony Patton) One of the trickier aspects of development is working with sensitive data such as social security numbers, employee identification numbers, and so forth. The .NET Framework includes cryptography functionality, but it is often overkill for smaller applications. Beginning with .NET Frame
Clustering – How many servers should I use?
(Szymon Machajewski) In this article we will discuss some of the challenges of estimating cluster sizes in high availability systems.
SQL Myth: Truncate Cannot Be Rolled Back Because It Is Not Logged
(Denis Gobo) I am still amazed at how many people still think that TRUNCATE TABLE is not logged. There is some logging going on but it is minimal, here is what Books On Line says: TRUNCATE TABLE removes the data by deallocating the data pages used to store the table’s data, and only the page dea
Working with Design Patterns: Strategy
(Jeff Langr) Some developers hold design patterns up as a lofty standard, an ideal. I’ve even seen some developers worship patterns so much that they were lax to use them on anything but a high-visibility implementation. On the contrary, many design patterns should really be used fairly frequently,
Partition Pitfalls in Oracle
(Steve Callan) Table partitions in Oracle can be extremely useful and becoming proficient in managing them doesn’t take too long to accomplish. The benefits of using partitions (and you should realize them since you must pay extra for this feature) are listed in various places, but the short and swe
Build DocBook XML in Eclipse
(Nathan A. Good) DocBook XML is a library of standard XML tags you can use to write stylesheets for generating almost any output. However, because DocBook has been around for quite some time, many stylesheets already exist for generating different types of documentation. Learn how to use DocBook XML
IBM DB2 9 on AIX 5L with NFS, iSCSI, and FCP using IBM System Storage N series
(Alex Osuna, Nailah Bissoon, Sunil Kamath, Jawahar Lal, Augie Mena and Roger Sanders) Currently, Ethernet bandwidth is eclipsing Fibre Channel and the cost of Ethernet is becoming more affordable than Fibre Channel. One question that has arisen is how NFS and iSCSI perform in comparison to FCP. This