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MySQL Logon trigger
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(Dan Wahlin) AJAX-enabled Web sites rely heavily upon JavaScript. Without JavaScript, Web pages that leverage AJAX are practically rendered useless. While writing JavaScript code is fairly straightforward, writing and managing cross-browser AJAX scripts can be challenging — this is where the ASP.NET
Rails and DB2 data types
(Leons Petrazickis) When creating a table in a Rails migration, you have to specify data types using platform-agnostic names.
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(Oleg Tkachenko) Yes, I’m trying to change the way you work with XSLT in Microsoft Visual Studio. It must be a pleasure to develop and rocket fast at runtime. Yes, Visual Studio already supports editing, running and even debugging XSLT, but it’s still a painfully limited support. So I’m started buil
SQL Server 2005 DDL Trigger Workbench
(Robyn Page and Phil Factor) How about automatically tracking and logging all database changes, including changes to tables, views, routines, queues and so on? With SQL Server 2005 it isn’t that hard, and we’ll show how it is done. If you haven’t got SQL Server 2005, then get SQL Server Express for
Resolving loose relationships in SQL
(Arthur Fuller) With a little creative thinking about particular business problems, you can often devise a solution in SQL. For instance, companies can choose between two methods to reconcile charges with payments. The first method (known in Canada as Open Item) means that you match payments against
Counting Days in MDX
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