(Scott Guthrie) Recently I’ve helped a few developers who have been having some weird JavaScript issues (both when using ASP.NET AJAX and with some other custom JavaScript routines they were using). The culprit was that they had automatically migrated a VS 2003 Web Project to VS 2005, and still had
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Influence query optimization with optimization profiles and statistical views in DB2 9
(Kenneth K. Chen) Most major relational database management systems such as IBM DB2, Oracle and Microsoft® SQL Server rely on a cost-based optimizer design to choose an optimal SQL execution plan among the many possible alternative plans, under a set of often changing conditions within a database se
Securing Text Data in .NET
(Brian Brewder) Application security is important, but how secure is secure enough? If you are writing an online Advent calendar, security probably isn’t that important. On the other hand, if you are writing software that triggers a nuclear device, security will probably be the primary feature (it p
Taking an ASP.NET 2.0 Application Offline
(John Peterson) Normally the last thing you want is for your web application to be offline. In the 24/7/365 world of the Internet, users expect your site to be available whenever they want to use it. Many of the improvements in the latest versions of ASP.NET and IIS have helped make this goal a real
CodeSnip: How to Read/Write an Image to Database in Binary Format
(Sandeep Acharya) In the world of software development, most of the time we are asked to display some descriptive images to end user at UI. Generally, developers store the images inside the folders as image files and display them at the time of demand. In this case we need to store the physical pa
Implement Microsoft DirectX Image Transformation Filters in ASP.NET 2.0
(Scott Lysle) This article describes an easy approach to creating custom web controls used to display Microsoft DirectX Image Transformation filter effects in an ASP.NET 2.0 web page. The article includes a class library containing eleven different controls, each of which demonstrates some aspect of
Build an Ajax application using Google Web Toolkit, Apache Derby, and Eclipse, Part 1: The fancy front end
(Noel Rappin) Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a major step forward in the creation of dynamic JavaScript applications that run in users’ Web browsers. Using GWT, developers can design the user interface (UI) and event model using familiar Java techniques while GWT does the hard work of making the code f
What’s Hot for Java
(Christine Law) By now, you’ve probably read a lot about the hybrid engine in DB2 9 for Linux, Unix, and Windows (formerly code-named “Viper”), which facilitates the integration of XML and relational data. You also may have read about the DB2 9 features that speed application development. In this ar
Oracle Loses Would-Be Customer To SAP Due To Integration Concerns
(Mary Hayes Weier) SAP and Oracle are locked in a fierce battle over the enterprise-resource planning software market, with SAP fighting to retain its lead and Oracle hoping to catch up through an aggressive acquisition strategy.
Innodb locking and Foreign Keys
(Peter Zaitsev) Today I was working with application which uses Innodb and foreign keys and got into locking problems possibly due to foreign keys, so I did a little investigation on that matter.