(Stephen B. Morris) If Derby were the only product to come out of the open source arena, I think I’d be happy with that! That’s an exaggeration of course, but it points to the importance of Derby. Database technology has traditionally occupied an exalted and expensive position in the world of softwa
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Using Generics and Inheritance to Simplify Development
(Brian Mains) Inheritance is a common Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concept that can be both well used and overused in application development. In combination with Generics, a new feature in .NET 2.0 that supports strong typing, using both inheritance and generics, can be a powerful combination
Calculating Seasonally-Adjusted Values in MDX
(Chris Webb) My chalk talk yesterday at the BI Conference went…. ok. Unfortunately, despite having asked for projector so I could show my demo code it turned out the screen I got was pretty small so only the people in the front few rows could see anything. So I told everyone that I would put the c
Write better distributed queries for Informix data servers
(Evan C. Lee) Learn how to optimize your queries for the best possible performance when accessing multiple Informix servers. In this article, you’ll learn to read the optimizer’s Explain output and understand how Informix processes distributed queries. You’ll learn to recognize inefficiencies in a q
Asynchronous Device Operations
(Jeffrey Richter) In my last column, I demonstrated how to implement two base classes, AsyncResultNoResult and AsyncResult. Both of these classes implement the IAsyncResult interface, which is at the core of the common language runtime (CLR) Asynchronous Programming Model (APM). In this col
SQL Server 2005 Transactional Replication: Benefit of using SubscriptionStreams for low bandwidth, high latency environments
(Bren Newman) When using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Transactional Replication, the Log Reader Agent reads the log, constructs SQL statements for published articles and posts it to the Distribution database; the Distribution Agent reads the Distribution database, delivers and applies the “package” to
Implement Sorting in Reports using Report Viewer
(Mahesh Chand) This article shows how to implement sorting on columns in a report using Report Viewer.
Check for leap years in your VB.NET code with IsLeapYear
(Irina Medvinskaya) When dealing with dates in VB.NET, it’s a good idea not to perform manual checks or calculations, which may be inaccurate depending on the quality of the code. Instead, it’s advisable to rely on the functionality of classes provided by .NET.
Oracle RAC Monitoring: Keeping your RAC under control
(Tarry Singh) Our last article was about the Extended RAC–a way to spread out our RAC nodes across the city. Whether your RAC is in the building or outside, a smart and prudent DBA always monitors RAC.
JDeveloper 11g – Model based (ViewObject) List of Values and their end-to-end benefit in the web tier
(Lucas Jellema) In JDeveloper 11g, as another example of declarative productivity, we can add a List of Values definition to an attribute in a ViewObject, indicating that typically that attribute whenever included in for example and ADF Faces page should be implemented with a List Binding in a Selec