(Jeff K. Wilson) Explore the steps and benefits of using a content feed filtering utility like Yahoo Pipes to better capture, merge, and alter specific data from available streams. This tutorial outlines some techniques to approach feed transformations, and includes three demonstrations featuring ke
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Introduction to LINQ, Part 3: LINQ to SQL
(Marius Bancila) In the previous articles of the series, I have introduced LINQ to Objects and LINQ to XML. LINQ stands for Language-INtegrated Queries and basically makes queries first citizens of languages such as C# and VB.NET. The topic of this article is another component of LINQ, called LINQ t
Serve up your BPEL processes as templates
(Sjoerd Michels) This post is about a feature in Oracle’s SOA Suite / JDeveloper 10.1.3.x that may easily go unnoticed: the option to publish a BPEL process as a template by using the Mark as Template option in JDeveloper.
Maximum Object Size in .NET
(Jim Mischel) Early in the development of the .NET runtime, the designers made a decision to limit the maximum size of a single object to two gigabytes. That was a reasonable decision back then, considering that a computer with just one gigabyte of RAM was considered a hot machine, and the most prev
TO COUNT(*) or NOT TO COUNT(*)
(Dathan) Counts, we all love to show counts in our applications. Under a high traffic website, it’s visually appealing to show a big number. But the cost of generating that big number realtime can be very expensive on our mySQL backend.
DB2 LUW Performance: Average Result Set Size (ARSS)
(Scott Hayes) You might think you have an OLTP transactional database. Or, you might think you have a Data Warehouse database. But what does your database think? How is it, or the queries within it, really performing?
DB2 UDB for z/OS: SQL Performance Tuning
(Tom Moulder) Performance tuning of DB2 UDB for z/OS subsystems has been a common task since the announcement of that database subsystem by IBM. Performance tuning can be accomplished at the subsystem level or at the SQL statement level. It is generally accepted that 20% of the benefit from tunin
End-to-end integration with pervasive messaging and IBM Lotus Expeditor micro broker
(Martin Gale) Micro broker, a new feature in IBM Lotus Expeditor V6.1, provides connectivity services beyond enterprise servers to mobile and pervasive devices. Learn about Lotus Expeditor micro broker and how you can enable true end-to-end integration in a Service-Oriented Architecture.
Microsoft Windows PowerShell and SQL Server 2005 SMO – Part I
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) As you probably know, Windows PowerShell is the new command shell and scripting language that provides a command line environment for interactive exploration and administration of computers. In addition, it provides an opportunity to script these commands so that we can sch
Implementing Dynamic Scroll with Ajax, JavaScript, and XML
(Vlad Kofman) In this article, I will discuss implementing an Ajax-enabled scrollable table, in which rows are dynamically fetched from the server, as the user scrolls, without the whole page refreshing. This technique is unique and very convenient for implementing pages with a lot of dynamic conten