(Michele Davis and Jon Phillips) Last week, you began learning how to use PHP to display and modify data from a MySQL database. This week, you’ll learn how to select the database, fetch and display data, and more.
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ASP.NET DropDownList and Unexpected Data
(Matt) You are data binding to a table. One of the columns, say US state, should have a limited domain, but for various reasons, values outside of that range appear. For example, you might be importing the data from a second system that uses the state field for country and state.
DB2 Version 8 retail books = 50% off – until June 30
(Susan Visser) The Version 9 books are slowly arriving, so now is your chance to pick up any Version 8 books that you may want for 50% off the usual price.
XML Editor and XSLT Debugging in Orcas
(Julia Lerman) In my eagerness to learn all about Entity Framework, I have paid no attention to the improvements to XML in Orcas. While LINQ to XML is getting a lot of notice, there are improvements to the XML tools that are definitely worthy of some attention!
Will XML Appliances Usurp ESB? Opinions Vary
(Loraine Lawson) Recently, I shared how a next-generation ERP company had integrated an ESB into its new product, which was subscription-based and delivered over the Internet. The model showed great promise for delivering on-demand, virtual integration.
Some personal opinions/observations about the performance of DB2 V8 Multi-row FETCH
(Willie Favero) It’s Thursday night and I should be home getting ready to pour a glass of red wine (preferably a Cab) and watch some mindless, completely non-educational television. But instead, I’m stuck at some hotel about a mile from Love Field in Dallas. Why you ask? I’m stuck here tonight becau
Eliminate SQL Injection Attacks Painlessly with LINQ
(Jason Schmitt) As web application security breaches and attempts rise, developers are increasingly being asked to take more responsibility for the security of their applications, and application framework vendors are building more robust security features into their platform software. Many develope
FIX: The result may be sorted in the wrong order when you run a query that uses the ORDER BY clause to sort a column in a table in SQL Server 2000
Consider the following scenario. In Microsoft SQL Server 2000, you run a query that uses the ORDER BY clause to sort a column in a table. The table has an index. In this scenario, the result may be sorted in the wrong order.
32- vs 64-bit Computing for SQL Server
(Buck Woody) In a way, the computing industry is a lot like the automotive industry. I’ll probably need to explain that.
Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio (Part 1)
(Steve Cook, Gareth Jones, Stuart Kent, Alan Cameron Wills and Alan Cameron Wills) This book describes the Microsoft Domain-Specific Language Tools (the DSL Tools). The DSL Tools are part of the Visual Studio SDK, and may be downloaded from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/DSLTools/. The DSL Tools