(Craig Mullins) Another nice new SQL feature provides the ability to SELECT from DELETE, UPDATE, and MERGE statements.
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Adding Computations, Processes, and Validations
(Lawrence Linnemeyer and Bradley Brown) Validations, computations, and processes greatly increase the functionality of an HTML DB application. In this three-part series (of which this is the first part), you’ll learn about the different types and where to use them.
Use the Business Intelligence Reporting Tool with DB2 Data Warehouse Edition, Part 1: Install BIRT and sample data in DWE Design Studio
(Vaibhav Srivastava) BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting Tool) is an open source relational reporting solution. It provides an Eclipse-based plug-in for report development and testing, and it provides J2EE deployment and API that can be used in custom Java applications. With IBM DB2 Data Warehouse
XSD Tutorial – Part 4 of 5 – Namespaces
(Simon Sprott) So far we have glossed over namespaces entirely, we will hopefully address this a little now. Firstly the full namespacing rules are rather complicated, so this will just be an overview. If you are working with a schema that makes use of namespaces then XML Data Binding will save you
Oracle RAC: Capacity Planning for your RAC
(Tarry Singh) Implementing RAC, or any clustered solution, requires planning. Many mission critical applications tend to be very demanding and are often load balanced both at front end (application servers) and backend (database servers). Let’s try to break it up into several components such as netw
Dump diagnostic information whenever a specific SQLCODE is hit
(Chris Eaton) In my last posting I wrote about how you can use db2cos to dump data automatically when a server fails. But there is more you can do with db2cos. For example, you can instruct DB2 to call the db2cos script when an application gets a specific error code. For example, maybe you want to r
Everyday Use of Generics
(Deborah Kurata) The .NET 2.0 Framework now supports a new style of strongly typed collections called generics. This article demonstrates how to use generics in your .NET code.
A glance at .NET Framework 3.0
(Rahul Saxena) In the programming field, .NET is the most successful development platform..Net Framework 2.0 is enough to satisfy for most of us. .NET Framework 3.0 came with many new and useable features. With .NET Framework 3.0, developers feel more easy when develops. In the new version of .NET,
Use XForms to create an accounting tool, Part 4: More asset management and reporting
(Nicholas Chase) This six-part series demonstrates how to leverage the power of XForms in conjunction with MySQL and PHP for support processing to create an online accounting tool called X-Trapolate. Every good programming technology possesses a range of problems it excels at solving. The series hig
Convert A Java Web Application To ASP.NET Using JLCA
(Brian Jimerson) The typical software development cycle follows a straightforward model: gather requirements, design the application, write the code, test the software, and deploy it. Once in a while, though, a new development project is incepted simply based on the platform to which the customer wa