(Paolo Bruni, Marcelo Antonelli, Norbert Heck, John Jenkins and Ernie Mancill) IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2 Performance Expert on z/OS represents the effort on converging OMEGAMON XE for DB2 and DB2 Performance Expert into one product that retains the best features of each. This new tool gives you
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Scaling Out SQL Server 2005
This article explains the different technologies that are available for scaling out a SQL Server 2005 database application, focusing on the factors that go into deciding which solution(s) to use in your application.
Building a Database Driven Hierarchical Menu using ASP.NET 2.0
(Michael Libby) This tutorial will show you how to store hierarchical menu data in a single database table and how to retrieve and transform that data for display in Microsoft’s Menu.
Printing with Formatting in VB .NET
(Jereme Guenther) Here is a quick summary for those who just want the code and don’t want to read the history. I have searched all over the Web for good printing code and was unable to find it. I have created a printing class that allows text to be formatted at the character level. It has taken me a
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(Abey George) It’s better to be informed by your application rather than the client telling that they have got an error. This is pretty simple which I have used in my previous project. The solution lies in the Global.asax file. When ever the application throws an error, the Application_Error met
Executing SQL Stored Procedures from inside a Web Application, Part 3
(Don Schlichting) This article focuses on using a stored procedure to insert a new record from data collected on a web page, then passing an identity value created from that row back to the web page. In the previous articles in this series, Part One described the benefits of using stored procedures
Using Advanced Functions to Maintain the State of Applications with PHP Sessions
(Alejandro Gervasio) Here we are again. This is part two of the series “Maintaining the state of applications with PHP sessions." In three parts, this series ranges from the basics of session management in PHP, such as creating, registering session data, and destroying sessions, to exploring advance
Why Oracle Works the Way it Does (4) – Data Blocks Part 2
(Dratz) Now it’s time to see data blocks in action. For this example I am just going to consider a normal table with rows and columns and nothing more exotic (once you understand this, the various permutations (clusters, partitions, etc.) should be easy to understand).