(Jim Czuprynski) Oracle 10gR2 includes some security features that have been long-overdue: the ability to encrypt DataPump Export dump sets and Recovery Manager (RMAN) backup sets. This article – the fourth and final in this series – discusses and illustrates how any Oracle DBA with a reasonable lev
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Create Your Own Custom Ajax-Enabled Accordion Component
(Kris Hadlock) Adding massive amounts of data to one web page is not a recommended design approach because it can be completely disorienting to the user, and might cause him to go to another site. There are always exceptions, though, which is the case when using an accordion component to display dat
How to go hand-in-hand with DB2 and Informix
(Suma C Shastry, Mohan Kumar and Prasad Srinivasachar) Database technology is a constantly growing field of knowledge. Leveraging your current knowledge on one product and applying it to another similar product is one way to keep up with the constant change. This article demonstrates how you can lev
Bundle related elements in VB.NET with enumeration
(Irina Medvinskaya) You’ll find that using enumeration in your VB.NET code comes in handy whenever you need to establish a set of related constants in your application and set their values. In this quick tip, I give an example of how using enumeration makes code easier to develop and read.
ASP.NET: Make GridView Control Accessible
(Mads Kristensen) The GridView is a new web control in ASP.NET 2.0 and is an improvement of the old DataGrid.
Extending TableAdapters for Dynamic SQL
(MikeInNH) This article discusses ADO.NET TableAdapters – especially how to extend TableAdapter functionality using Visual Basic .NET.
The truth about MySQL Community and Enterprise
Late in 2006 MySQL decided to move to a split distribution model, Community and Enterprise. A lot has (apparently) changed since then, yet nothing has really changed since then.
Robyn Page’s SQL Server Cursor Workbench
(Robyn Page) The purpose of this series of workshops is to try to encourage you to take a practical approach to SQL skills. I always find I learn things much quicker by trying things out and experimenting. Please don’t just run the samples, but make changes, alter the data, look for my mistakes, try
Perspectives on ASP.NET AJAX
(Dino Esposito) Unless you’ve spent the past 12 months disconnected from the Net-perhaps vacationing on a remote tropical island or participating in a reality game show-you should know a few things about AJAX. But I’ll do a quick refresher just in case.
Mastering Ajax, Part 9: Using the Google Ajax Search API
(Brett McLaughlin) So far in this series, the focus was exclusively on situations in which your client Web pages make requests to your server-side scripts and programs. This is how probably 80 to 90 percent of Ajax applications — asynchronous Web applications that use the XMLHttpRequest object — w