(Marco Gralike) Hate? Let’s say it is a love / hate thing, but I can’t help myself. I am a script nerd and probably always will be, but even I have to “evolve” or at least adapt to what the new software cycle brings. So preparing myself for the future, I based remote administration on Oracle Ent
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INSTEAD OF Triggers [DB2 9 for z/OS]
(Craig Mullins) DB2 9 for z/OS introduces a new type of trigger: the INSTEAD OF trigger. The primary usage of INSTEAD OF triggers is to enable views that would not otherwise be updatable to support updates. Typically, a view that consists of multiple base tables cannot be updated. But with an INSTEA
Traits of a Security-Conscious Developer
(Frank Sommers and Bill Venners) In today’s installment of JavaOne 2007 interviews, Fortify Software’s Barmak Meftah and FindBugs creator Bill Pugh talk about what makes a security-conscious developer, and what developers can do to write more secure code.
SharePoint 2007 presents ups, downs to developers
(George Lawton) SharePoint 2007 comes with a tool that promises to drastically reduce the complexity in building the look and feel of Web applications. This, in turn, aims to allow developers to focus on coding, in Visual Studio 2005, some of the underlying complexity in Web-based SharePoint applica
Perform bulk copies with .NET 2.0’s SqlBulkCopy class
(Tony Patton) A common development task is transferring data between disparate data sources. If you have worked with SQL Server, the bcp (bulk copy) command will be familiar to you. It allows you to quickly bulk copy large files into SQL Server tables or views. With .NET Framework 1.1, you can utili
Managing Application Performance in a Changing Environment
(Tom Joyce) Getting consistently high performance out of enterprise-class business applications and infrastructure and delivering it on a consistent basis is extremely difficult. A recent InfoPro survey found that 80 percent of enterprise customers experience an “application brownout” – a disruption
XML Schema Facets
(Priya Lakshminarayanan) I have received a number of requests over a period of time asking how to get all the facets defined on simple types or complex types with simple content in an XML Schema. I recently wrote a code sample for the same and I thought i will post it for wider consumption. The code
Using SharePoint Solutions to Deliver Server-Side Solutions
(Robert Bogue) If you’ve ever worked on more than the most trivial installation program, you realize that developing installers isn’t for the faint of heart. After spending days or weeks learning about the MSI file format, how to assemble tables, and how to add dialogs, you’re left with a collection
Temporary Tables vs. Table Variables and Their Effect on SQL Server Performance
(Dmitry Tsuranoff) There are three major theoretical differences among temporary tables and table-variables.
CAM: A Swiss Army knife for XML structures
(Daniel Rubio) Web services’ bread and butter consists primarily of exchanging XML structures between applications in order to fulfill interoperability requirements. Prior to such exchanges taking place, most XML data undergoes a series of steps that include validation and transformation, many of wh