(Jack D Herrington) Take a tour through some of the best Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) applications in the Web 2.0 world. Discover how these applications succeed at the user level and find techniques you can explore for your own Web 2.0 applications to create an exciting user experience.
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From Rows to Column
(Amit Zhankar) This script starts with rows and then returns results in one column.
Capturing Incremental Data Changes in Oracle Database 10g
(Meenakshi Thanikachalam) There are various ways to identify new or changed data in a data warehouse. One technique to determine the changes is to include a timestamp on each row in the operational system as the record is changed.The data extraction program then selects the new or changed source dat
Generate synchronization scripts in SQL Server with TableDiff
(Tim Chapman) DBAs often have to find the differences between lookup tables in different database environments (i.e., development, quality-assurance, staging, and production). The data in these lookup tables are required to be the same across environments to ensure that your testing is accurate.
Table of MySQL Parameters
(Yannick Gratton) I got tired of going all over the place to get information about mysqld variables, so I decided to make a summary of most of them (for version 5.0.27 linux). (Due to lack of horizontal space, I had to make two tables — the second one containing a short description of the variable.)
SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers – Part 6
(Pinalkumar Dave) What are the properties of the Relational tables?
IBM Puts Google Gadgets into WebSphere
(John Fontanna) IBM is offering a free portal component, which IBM calls a portlet, that lets business users link nearly 4,000 Google Gadgets to their WebSphere Portal environments.
Advanced DBA Exam – Now available!
(Susan Visser) An IBM Certified Advanced Database Administrator is the lead DBA for the DB2 products on one or more of the following platforms: Linux, UNIX (including AIX, HP-UX, and Sun Solaris), and Windows. This individual has extensive experience as a DBA and extensive knowledge of DB2 9. This p
Microsoft Visual Web Developer Codename ‘Orcas’ Express Edition CTP
(John Peterson) Microsoft has just released the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Visual Studio Codename "Orcas" Express Edition family of products. This marks the first publicly available release of this software and, as such, it’s probably the first chance many of you may have had to
Secure ASP.NET AJAX Development (Part 1)
(Jason Schmitt) We have discussed up to this point how AJAX technologies basically represent a new way of doing things in Web applications using some relatively old Web technologies. The security of AJAX applications is a similar reversal of fortunes in that many developers will introduce old, famil