(Frank Mash) From time to time I receive requests from friends who are interested in learning more about managing MySQL on Solaris 10. To help them (and myself), I am planning to write about the internals of both MySQL and Solaris.
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Lesson 8 Using Service Broker
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become an important concept in the design of large-scale distributed applications. Central to SOA is the ability of services to communicate using a reliable message-based mechanism. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Broker is a message-based platform for build
XSL transformation of Spreadsheet ML to HTML (with Paging) – Part 2
(Muthu Kumar Arjunan) This article explains how to “Page” an HTML table generated from Spreadsheet ML document, using XSL transformation & XMLHttp & Java Script.
Using IPC channels and .NET Framework 2.0 to communicate between processes
(Zach Smith) Interprocess communication, or “IPC”, allows one process to communicate with another process that is running on the same computer. Since the calls don’t have to travel over the network, IPC calls have much less overhead and are typically faster than calls that do travel over the network
A performance comparison of DB2 9 pureXML and CLOB or shredded XML storage
(Matthias Nicola and Vitor Rodrigues) Like other databases, the DB2 V8 XML Extender offers two storage and access models for XML: XML documents can be stored intact as unparsed text in CLOB columns, or they can be mapped and shredded to a set of relational tables. Both options have known performance
Oracle updates licensing models
(Mark Brunelli) Oracle is trying to make it easier for customers to license its products. (R)
What’s New in MySQL 5.1
MySQL 5.1 provides more enterprise-caliber enhancements that greatly assist those wanting to use MySQL for data warehousing and business intelligence, applications having extreme high-availability requirements, and systems needing a powerful but autonomous-running database that requires little atten
Tip: SQL Express Configuration Issue
(Sushankar layak) You can manually configure SQL Express and the Windows Firewall to allow remote access. Use the following steps to enable remote access to SQL Express.
StAX’ing up XML, Part 3: Using custom events and writing XML
(Peter Nehrer) In addition to a low-level cursor-based API, StAX provides a powerful iterator-based method to process XML that uses event objects to communicate information about the parsed stream. Part 2 explored this API in detail and provided some examples of its use. In this article, you’ll exam
Working with Web Parts in ASP.NET 2.0
(Tony Patton) Web Parts are one of the more interesting features in ASP.NET 2.0. They are a new family of controls available for building dynamic Web interfaces that allow users to easily customize or personalize a page. Web Parts are components that users can display, hide, or move. This week, I pr