(Todd Lauinger) During the past 20 years I have had the privilege of working with well over 1,000 different software developers. Some of the best developers in the industry mentored me when I began my career. They taught me software development from the ground up, beginning with how to run and enhan
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Microsoft’s Lineup of SQL Server Related Webcasts for June 2007
Ten new webcasts are scheduled for June, covering such topics as The Next Release of Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Basic and SQL Server 2005 and more.
Using PDO Objects in PHP 5
(Alejandro Gervasio) The PDO library is a powerful addition to PHP. It shines when you need to build applications capable of talking to different database systems. It also has other very useful capabilities. This article, the first in a three-part series, will introduce you to this versatile library
Interesting parameter SQL_ATTR_REPLACE_QUOTED_LITERALS
(Philip Nelson) When you start digging into the internals of anything you come up with some strange findings. Here is one I came across recently. I discovered this through my work with the DB2 adapter / driver for Ruby on Rails, and am indebted to Alex Pitigoi and Antonio Cangiano in the IBM labs fo
Prefix v/s Non-Prefix Index ! Which is better ?
(Vivek Sharma) There’s a lot of debate about the usage of Prefixed and Non Prefixed Local Indexes. I have come across a misconception many dba’s have about these indexes when it comes to performance.
MySQL – to use or not to use
(Peter Zaitsev) Reading this slashdot article today and two CIO magazine articles linked from it.
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(Sue Harper) In March 2006, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle SQL Developer, a GUI for Oracle Database. Oracle SQL Developer provides an easy-to-install, lightweight, multiplatform GUI that enables database developers to do a variety of database activities, including browsing, creating, an
XML and Java technology: Low-level or high-level XML APIs?
(Brett D. McLaughlin, Sr.) Not many years ago, the options for working with XML were limited essentially to SAX, DOM, or a home-brewed API. With hundreds of different developer-friendly APIs today, though, have developers lost some of their ability to manipulate XML?
DB2 9 Viper helps hospital cure performance pain by storing XML, relational data in one DBMS
(Hannah Smalltree) When a major hospital network in South Korea wanted to electronically consolidate all patient data — much of it handwritten — it faced some major hurdles. (R)
Ajax: Creating Native JavaScript Objects From SQL
(James Robson) Ajax is useful for fetching data to web pages without requiring that the pages reload; it speeds up the user experience of your web site. This article will show you how to build an ASP.NET web application in C# that takes advantage of Ajax’s dynamic ability.