(Joe Pluta) Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) is a strange little language. Actually I say little, but it’s far from that; EGL has got untold hours of development muscle behind it, and the team that is building the language is growing. Be that as it may, EGL is still a bit strange: the weird, ner
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Compare Informix Dynamic editions
(Christine Normile) “IDS is IDS is IDS.” This mantra holds true for the platforms that the IBM IDS runs on, and the editions that are available from IBM.
Visual Studio 2005 Hands-On Tutorial – Part 1
(David Catherman) Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Sever 2005 are fairly new products with many new concepts. Those who are eager adopters of new technology have plunged in and written many great articles about the new productivity. But others have taken a “wait and see” attitude, and need a little encour
CLR Method Internals (.NET 2.0)
(Joe Duffy) Simple tasks that you typically take for granted can be surprisingly complex when you peek under the hood. Method calls are the bread and butter of C# and VB programming, but a lot of moving pieces go into making that all work. In this article, we’ll take a quick look at how all of it wo
Why Oracle Works the Way it Does (1) – Datafiles and Tablespaces
(Dratz) Now, the smallest unit Oracle really messes with is the “data block”. I’m going to skip over them for now because I think they’ll make more sense after we discuss datafiles and tablespaces
Oracle 10g Transportable Tablespace Enhancements: Cross-Platform Conversion Capabilities
(Jim Czuprynski) One of the bigger challenges just about every Oracle DBA faces eventually is the need to transfer data from one database server to another. In my experience, several variables have to be taken into account whenever planning the best method to accomplish such a data transfer.
Take advantage of code snippets in Visual Studio 2005
(Tony Patton) The auto-complete features of Visual Studio .NET are wonderful if you are a Visual Basic developer, but C# developers sorely missed out on the feature. (Of course, C# developers who never use Visual Basic may be unaware of its existence.) Fortunately, Visual Studio 2005 brings auto-com
Making Movie Magic
(Thomas Ulrich) When people sit in a darkened movie theater or play a video game, they seldom think about the technical requirements for animation or special effects that the producer needed to bring the story to life. Technology plays a bigger role today than it ever did in entertainment, and the r
Advanced MySQL Replication Techniques
(Giuseppe Maxia) You may know about the MySQL Cluster, which is a complex architecture to achieve high availability and performance. One of the advantages of MySQL Cluster is that each node is a peer to the others, whereas in a normal replicating system you have a master and many slaves, and applica
Server Tuning, Log Shipping, Mirroring, and More
(Nancy Michell) Is it true that once mirroring becomes available, there is no reason to use log shipping anymore? It seems that mirroring is less functional than log shipping if you want to use the mirrored database for reporting. It also seems that mirroring only allows you to query against a datab