(John Charles Olamendy) Some days ago, I saw in the CSharpCorner community’s forum one question about how to access the Active Directory (AD) from Microsoft.NET. So, this article is intended to explain the architecture design of one application querying information to AD.
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LINQ to XML Changes in Orcas Beta1
As S. Somasegar announced, Orcas Beta 1 is ready to ship and will be generally available for download soon. There are some new (and renewed) features in LINQ to XML that you can check out in this release, and some minor changes introduced in response to reviews and comments:
SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers – Part 3
(Pinalkumar Dave) What is a NOLOCK?
IBM’s Robust Mainframe Security Extended to Medium-Sized Businesses
IBM today announced that it has made several advances in the powerful System z(TM) mainframe security architecture that are designed to extend the features of IBM’s security-rich server — historically enjoyed by large enterprises — to a growing base of medium-sized mainframe customers that operate
Complex Event Processing with DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows and Coral8
(John Morrell) Complex Event Processing (CEP) is a new approach for building applications that process and analyze high-speed event streams. Learn how the pureXML capabilities in IBM DB2 work together with the Coral8 engine for high-performance processing of high-speed event streams. This article al
Using Namespace Aliases in .NET
(Jayadev D) In most cases, when there are namespace conflicts, developers tend to use the complete qualified name in the code.
An Introduction to VoiceXML
(Keshav V. Kamat) Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) is a markup language for creating voice user interfaces that use automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech synthesis (TTS). The VoiceXML forum was formed in March 1999, by AT&T, IBM, Lucent and Motorola to promote and to accel
Emulating Analytic (AKA Ranking) Functions with MySQL: Part 2
(Stéphane Faroult) As I have discussed more than once, the previously outlined emulation of analytic functions is fine as long as we wisely restrain ourselves to using only the n first (or last) elements in what would have been our partition clause. This is a factor only when n is greater than 1; if
DB2 9 ‘Viper’ Named Best Database Management Solution for 2007 by the Software and Information Industry Association
IBM announced that DB2 9 “Viper” data server was named winner of the 2007 Best Database Management Solution at the Software & Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) 22nd Annual CODiE Awards. DB2 9 was one of more than 1,197 nominations this year — the most in the history of the CODiEs.
DATE comparisons: the scenic route
(William Robertson) Need to calculate the number of minutes between two dates? Yes, the dull way is to subtract one from the other and multiply by 1440. But why do that, when you can simply convert each date into Julian format by converting it into a string and then back to a date, and converting th