(Peter V. Mikhalenko) Digital telephony is spreading wide and fast, entailing new technologies for voice communication. In this article, I’ll review a new XML language intended for usage in the telecommunications industry.
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SQL Server Performance: Query Tuning vs. Process Tuning
(Nils Bevaart) In the different projects where I perform a performance audit or am involved in performance tuning, I often find that while queries and stored procedures function correctly, they are not efficient in processing larger data sets. Many OLTP databases are set up as OLAP databases to hand
httplib2: HTTP Persistence and Authentication
(Joe Gregorio) Last time we covered HTTP caching and how it can improve the performance of your web service. This time we’ll cover some other aspects of HTTP that, if fully utilized, can also speed up your web service.
Optimizing Queries with Operators, Branching and Functions
(Jon Stephens and Chad Russell) In this chapter, we’re going to explore the central premise of this book: It is almost always the best course of action to make the database perform as much work as possible, thus minimizing the amount of filtering and manipulating data that you do in your programming
Learning Oracle RAC with the NetApp Simulator
(Sachin Garg) Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) is a fascinating technology that can enhance system scalability, availability, and performance in many different ways. However, evaluating or getting hands-on experience with RAC requires expensive hardware to which most DBAs do not have access.
FIX: Error message when you try to install SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 on a SQL Server 2000 cluster
When you try to install Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4) on a SQL Server 2000 cluster, the installation may fail. Additionally, an error message that is similar to the following may be logged in the SqlspX.log file: C:DOCUME~1ADMINI~1LOCALS~1TempSqlSetup Binscm.exe -Silent 1 –
Maintain Better Coding Standards with Ease Using Checkstyle
(John Ferguson Smart) Writing consistently clear, high quality, maintainable code is an art that requires a certain amount of discipline at the best of times. Coding standards lay out rules and recommendations about the way code should be written and also enshrine good coding habits. Recently, codin
An ASP.NET 2.0 AutoComplete DropDownList
(Brett Burch) In this article I’ll show you how to easily create a DropDownList control in ASP.Net 2.0 that solves the same problem as a previous version solved in ASP.Net 1.* (seen at http://www.dotnetjohn.com/articles.aspx?articleid=132). This problem is commonly known to ASP.Net developers.
Interview with Dino Esposito, ASP.NET Expert
(Sara Smith) “Don’t let 2.0 pass over you unnoticed,” warns Dino Esposito. ASP.NET 2.0 was released this past November, following great anticipation from.NET developers. The Beta releases had really teased us all, and we were keen to get our hands on some of the new features promised in 2.0: Master
Give Your .NET Apps the Face They Deserve with WPF
(Laurence Moroney) Microsoft first publicly demonstrated Avalon way back in 2003 at the Professional Developers’ Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. They touted Avalon as the next generation in user interface methodology, and it was well-received by developers and users alike.