(Renee Mason) More than once, I’ve gotten a call from a DB2 System i client complaining of slow database performance. Later in our conversation, the client will mention experiencing an abnormal system end sometime ago. We discover that several access paths were marked invalid after the crash and are
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SQL Server 2005 Integration Services – Maintenance Plan Tasks – Part 46
(Marcin Policht) Continuing our coverage of Control Flow tasks in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, we will now focus on several tasks, whose shared purpose is to provide the ability to perform standard database maintenance procedures. You can find these tasks grouped together within Business In
Discover concepts with Easy Semantic Search
(Markus Lorch) Get an introduction to “Easy Semantic Search,” a new functionality introduced in IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition V8.4 that enables end-users to leverage the power of semantic search to query for concepts through the well-accepted keyword query paradigm. Follow the steps outlined in th
Using CLR Integration in SQL 05 for Writing Stored Procedures
(Jesse Smith) If you are familiar with stored procedures and why they are used, you know about Microsoft’s T-SQL language for writing them with SQL Server.
Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007 (Part 3)
(Scott Roberts and Hagen Green) Let’s say that your IT department has finally completed the AddressBlock template part and distributed it to the entire company. It has been six months, and now hundreds of form templates use this address block. Form template designers love this component because it s
Working with Custom Validators using Enterprise Library 3
(Brian Mains) Previously, I wrote about Enterprise Library 3 validation in ASP.NET pages, using the existing Validator classes defined in the Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Validation namespace. Through inheritance, it is easy to create your own custom validation and we will look at a few ex
Creating A Splash Screen In VB.NET 2005
(Andrew Sutton) VB.NET 2005 provides “native” functionality to display a splash screen on application startup. To add a splash screen to a project the follow the steps outlined below: –Add a splash screen form. –Make the application display the splash screen on start up. –Customise the sp
Capture information at first failure with db2cos
(Chris Eaton) Now that I have described a lot of the details of the db2pd tool, let’s look at how you can use it in the event of a DB2 software failure.
Subclassing and Overriding ASP.NET Pages—Part II
(Dino Esposito) I recently came across a relatively large Web site that was full of extremely simple Web user controls—ASCX files, to be precise. The developers considered this approach necessary after they discovered unexpected behavior in a server control they were using.
Properties and More in XAML
(Lori A. MacVittie) In this third part of a three-part series covering the basics of XAML, you will learn about attached properties, binding properties, and more.