(Dave Pierce, Jeff Moll and Darpan Biswas) Data warehouse solutions are becoming almost ubiquitous as a supporting technology for the operational and strategic functions at most companies. Data warehouses (DWs) play an integral role in business functions as diverse as enterprise process management,
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AJAX DataGrid: An ASP.NET User Control
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Using the ASP.NET 2.0 MultiView Control
(Bill Hatfield) Tabs controls have become a very common user interface feature in both Windows and Web applications, and its not surprising. They provide a way to reuse screen real-estate in an easy-to-understand and easy-to-navigate way.
Generating and Hosting a SQL Server Reporting Services Report Using SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Development Studio
(Jayaram Krishnaswamy) Reporting is one of the most important activities of an organization because it provides a specialized and customized view of the data of various forms that live in databases or are stored in archives. The report is useful in making business decisions, scheduling business cam
Working with Multiple Template Files to Separate Logic from Presentation
(Alejandro Gervasio) This is the article that you’ve been waiting for! Welcome to the last part of the series “Separating logic from presentation.” In three tutorials, this series teaches you how to develop an expandable template processor class using PHP 5, which exposes some useful features, such
Develop proof-of-concept .NET applications, Part 1: Create database objects in DB2 Viper using .NET
(Chenhong Xia) This tutorial series teaches you how to create proof-of-concept Windows and Web applications to access relational and XML data in IBM DB2 Viper, using Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2005. Part 1 explains the application specifications and illustrates how to create the relational database
The Rubber Meets the Road
(Deb Jenson) How will DB2 Viper’s hybrid XML-relational data server work in the real world? You can join the customers and partners who are revving the engine, kicking the tires, and checking performance and handling. Here’s what to look for when you take it out for a spin.
Tuning Your View Objects
(Steve Muench) A view object is the Oracle Application Developer Framework (ADF) component that lets you work easily with SQL query results. View objects can be used to read rows of data; to create and hold rows of transient data; and to automatically insert, update, and delete changes made in your
The Eclipse platform, Web tools and XML
(Ed Tittel) Eclipse is one of those development projects about which many people have heard, but only those who’ve worked inside its borders know what it’s really about. Though funded by IBM in large part, Eclipse is a manifold open source development effort that embraces a multitude of components a
What’s Up With dbms_stats?
(Terry Sutton) For years Oracle has been telling us to use the DBMS_STATS package instead of the ANALYZE command to gather statistics to be used by the Oracle optimizer. Many of us have heeded this advice and switched from using ANALYZE for scheduled statistics-gathering jobs to using DBMS_STATS. St