(Anil Mahadev) As most of us have heard and been using .NET for quite a while now. So I will not delve into the details of the .NET Framework, CLR, etc.
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Oracle 10g Free Training – Sequences
In this tutorial you will learn about Sequences, Creating Sequences, Altering Sequences, Using Sequences and Dropping Sequences.
Transactional Replication Workflow for Oracle Publishers
Transactional replication for Oracle Publishers is built on the Microsoft SQL Server transactional replication publishing architecture, but the process of tracking changes at the Publisher and delivering them to the Distributor is significantly different from standard transactional replication. Desp
Building an XSL Transform Tool
(Michael K. Campbell) A while back I got tired of looking for a simple solution to performing ‘on the fly’ XSL Transformations. I didn’t want some memory-hog tool to completely isolate me from the details of the transform through layers of abstraction—just a light-weight tool that would act as a sim
Protecting a MySQL user/password in a PHP script
(Greg Beaver) UPDATE 2: Thanks to Chris Shiflett, who provided a link to a real answer in his comment. Clearly, the way to do this within the environment where you have one host and lots of ~users is to use .htaccess. Each user would define in their own /home/user/public_html/.htaccess two environme
XSD Schemas for VB Developers – Why Schemas?
(Yasser Shohoud) As you develop distributed Web applications, you will need a way to represent your structured data and send it from one tier to the other possibly over the Web. XML is an excellent choice for representing structured data. For example, you’ll find yourself sending XML data between th
A tutorial on Call Control XML and voice browser call control
(Peter V. Mikhalenko) In the last article about SCXML we talked about state machine notations and noted that many concepts were taken from Call Control XML (CCXML) language. The first draft of CCXML specification appeared in the early 2002, and still remains in a working draft status. However, lack
Dealing with Wildcard Characters in Oracle
(MS Sridhar) Developers generally tend to use characters such as % as a delimiter for storing data in an Oracle database. But because Oracle views the % character as a Wildcard character, it can’t use it as a delimiter effectively. Fortunately, Oracle provides a way out for such a problem—the ESCAPE
Who Needs a Data Warehouse?
(Gabriel Fuchs) At a previous job, we realizeded that we needed a data warehouse. It was actually quite easy to make this decision – everyone else had one – so, therefore, we should obviously have one as well. In order to be better than everyone else, we, however, did not stop at a data warehouse. W
Deploying ASP.Net 2.0 Web site in a Production Server
(Moustafa Arafa) Deploying ASP.NET 2 web site is the first issue facing the developer after finishing to create a web site is how to deploy the web site to a remote/Production server.