(Marcin Policht) In the previous article of our series dedicated to SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, we started discussing various types of actions that can be performed using XML Control Flow task, covering its Validate and XSLT options. We will continue this subject by focusing our attention
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Building Ruby, Rails, Subversion, Mongrel, and MySQL on Mac OS X
(Dan Benjamin) This article is a major update to the older (but tried-and-true) post, Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL on Tiger. Both Ruby, Rails, and their underlying infrastructure have come a long way in recent months, and this article will get you to a leaner, meaner Rails install in le
Client-Side XML Data Islands
(Sanjay Kumar) This article demonstrates how to send xml data to the web client, filter records from xml at client side by using XPath expression and populate all products of selected category into product drop-down.
What You Can Do When Your Database Runs out of Temp Space
(Roger Schrag) When a sort operation is too large to fit in memory, Oracle allocates space in a temporary tablespace in order to write data off to disk. Temporary space is a resource shared by multiple sessions on the database, and quotas cannot be set to limit how much temporary space can be used b
Using Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005 to Build Reports from DB2 9 – Part B
(Paul Zikopoulos) In Part A of this series, I showed you how to use the Crystal Report features that come as part of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 integrated development environment (IDE) with data that resides on an IBM DB2 9 data server. However, that article concluded with a reporting object i
Great, simple and free db2 monitor software
(David) Today I have stumbled upon this great little free tool called “DB2 Monitor”.
Building an RSS File
(Jacques Noah) In the previous article we discussed how to read an RSS file with PHP. In this article we will focus on the theoretical aspects of how to build an RSS file.
Understand ASP.NET 2.0 configuration file processing
(Tony Patton) Configuration files are an important aspect of .NET development. ASP.NET applications have web.config and other configuration files, while non-Web applications have app.config. Here’s a closer look at how ASP.NET 2.0 uses configuration files (specifically machine.config and web.config)
XML for Perl developers, Part 3: Advanced manipulating and writing techniques
(Jim Dixon) This article, the third in a three-part series, uses the parsing techniques introduced in Part 2 to build tree structures that can be transformed, navigated, and written. You will then see how to feed transformed parse trees into SAX pipelines, further transform them, and write them as t
Make sure your next application can get to the data it needs with connection strings
(Edmond Woychowsky) Connection strings — if any one aspect of application development was ever more fluffed over, I’ve never heard of if. Face it, the subject of connection strings is the twenty-first century equivalent of the “then a miracle occurs” puffy cloud in a flowchart. Unfortunately the on