(Glen Kunene) Consumer Web sites such as Google Maps and Yahoo Mail generally come to mind first when one thinks of AJAX-enabled applications. On those sites, millions of users experience the results of dynamic AJAX interaction between the browser and server. Less known, however, are the benefits AJ
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Migrating 9i database on Windows to 10g on SLES
(Maria Anderson) I have a 200 GB database running on Oracle9i release 2 on a Windows 2003 platform. We want to migrate the database on SLES 9 server Oracle10g rel2. Please guide me on the steps involved in doing this. (R)
Customizing Content Query RSS feeds
(George Perantatos) One of the great features of the Content Query web part is that, once you configure it and have it showing the content that you want, you can have it emit an RSS feed of the same content. So, if you have a Content Query web part showing the latest news articles published on the
Load Text Files to CLOB then Write Back Out to Disk – (PL/SQL)
(Jeff Hunter) The following example is part of the Oracle LOB Examples Collection.
Consider Oracle 10gR2’s Instant Client Light for application deployment
(Bob Watkins) Client/server applications can communicate with an Oracle database in several ways. The most common of these is a middleware layer called the Oracle Call Interface (OCI). As you install Oracle’s server software on the database server machine, you must install some sort of client softwa
Combining Web Services and SQL Server Data Utilizing Business Objects Business View Manager – Part 2
(Eric Landes) As mentioned in Part 1 of this article, there are many times your customers may want reports that combine data from different sources. In this article we will concentrate on putting the data together in Business Objects Business Views.
Index Build strategy in SQL Server – Part 2: Offline, Parallel, No Partitioning
(Lyudmila Fokina) The type of parallel index build plan in SQL server depends on whether or not we have a histogram available with necessary statistics. Therefore, there are two broad categories of parallel index plans: –Histogram available: –No histogram
Automating MySQL Best Practices Management
(Robin Schumacher) One thing I learned fairly early in my DBA career was that if I was ever going to excel in managing the databases under my care, I needed to do one thing: smartly automate as much of my job as I could. This became particularly important in my last full-time DBA spot where one othe
Working with xsl:choose in XSLT
(Jagadish Chaterjee) This is the second article in a series focusing on developing XSLT-oriented applications using ASP.NET 2.0. Even though the series is based on ASP.NET 2.0, I use it only as a transformation engine. The entire focus will be on working with XSLT. You can use any transformation eng
Actions in Analysis Services 2005: The URL Action
(William Pearson) In this article, we will gain some familiarity with the URL Action – how it works and some of its capabilities – and then get some hands-on exposure to creating a URL Action within the sample AdventureWorks development environment, which can be installed with MSSQL Server 2005.