(Dick Wall) Try a visualization. Think about Oracle Database. If you are anything like me, you are probably envisioning large, mission-critical applications, darkened server rooms with loud fans and lots of heat, and DBAs sweatily laboring to keep the enterprise running. You might, if you have had t
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Oracle Lays Out Telecom Service Delivery Platform
(China Martens) Oracle made another move to target telecommunications providers, unveiling plans for a telecom service delivery platform (SDP).
Why XML transformation via XSLT in the browser is limited
(Tony Patton) The last couple of weeks we’ve examined the AJAX approach to browser-based development with the XMLHttpRequest object and JavaScript. While working with XML data is straightforward, you can easily manipulate XML with XSLT stylesheets. However, using XSLT in the browser is limited, so s
Improving Application Performance in .Net
(Joydip Kanjilal) The performance of web applications is a serious concern for application developers in Microsoft .NET. This article discusses some tips and best practices that can be utilized for making performance improvement in .Net web applications. It also focuses on the art of better coding
How to Display ASP.NET DataGrid Data in Excel
(Naveen Lanke) Suppose you have a DataGrid with several columns full of data. The DataGrid contains several pages. You can disable paging and export all the data to Excel using the RenderControl method.
How to use compression in DB2 Viper
(Chris Eaton) In order to use row compression in DB2 Viper you must first set the table to be compression eligible and then you must generate the dictionary that contains the common strings from within the table.
Writing to Text Files in Oracle PL/SQL
(Jagadish Chatarji) This is the second article in a series focusing on file input/output using Oracle PL/SQL packages.
High Availability with SQL Server and Double-Take Part II
(Steven Warren) In Part I of High Availability with SQL Server and Double-Take, we discussed how to configure replication and mirroring of SQL Server data via Double-Take. Once you have properly configured your replication sets, you can configure failover and begin monitoring and testing. In this ar
Set Up ASP.NET 2.0 Application Services
Enterprise-grade reporting and data analysis has become more decision oriented due to Microsoft’s SQL Server 2005. Moreover, the expenses involved in building and deploying applications have stayed down due to the low cost of the software. SQL Server 2005, being a highly reliable database platform f
Report Builder: Creating a Report Model
(William Pearson) As I have discussed in many past articles, ad hoc reporting capabilities are highly valued by information consumers. While we have, up until this article, focused on adding interactive features, such as parameterization, and ad hoc sorting and other conditional formatting features