(Daniel Rubio) Besides the term SOA, there is perhaps just one more new term that has made itself onto the development lists of many IT departments in the last few months: Ajax. Although the term is more inclined to stir excitement among Web usability and design professionals, it does bring its shar
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Querying Databases in SQL Server 2005
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Making Like Magellan: Site Navigation Tools in ASP.Net 2.0
(Peter Aitken) We all know that Magellan was a famous Portuguese navigator who, in the early 16th century, led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe. Our task as web designers is not quite so daunting, but we still have to pay attention to navigation.
AJAX-A New approach to build better web-application
(ChiranjibC) Asynchronous JavaScript And XML, or its acronym, Ajax, is a Web development technique for creating interactive web applications. It is used to submit a server request from a client using JavaScript and XML, without submitting the whole page. As a result the whole process is exchanging s
Programming Serial Ports Using Visual Basic 2005
(Wei-Meng Lee) Visual Basic programmers who do networking programming will no doubt be familiar with the MSCOMM control in VB6. For those of us who followed VB’s progression to VB.NET, it was a big surprise to find that control missing in .NET 1.x. What we had instead was Platform Invoke (P/Invoke),
Implementing Error Handling with Stored Procedures
(Erland Sommarskog) Error handling in stored procedures is a very tedious task, because T-SQL offers no exception mechanism, or any On Error Goto. All you have is the global variable @@error which you need to check after each statement for a non-zero value to be perfectly safe. If you call a stored
Web Services: The State of the Art in Tooling
(Joe Pluta) When I started this project, I had hoped to look through a whole range of tools and then compare and contrast them. I figured that with the immense amount of work that has been poured into standardizing the entire Web services industry, from SOAP to UDDI, it would be child’s play to pick
Why PostgreSQL can best SQLServer, Oracle
(MiMi Yeh) Some people think PostgreSQL 8.0 is just a backend database for Web sites. They’re as well informed as people who think the moon is made of cheese, according to Robert Treat and Jason Gilmore, co-authors of Apress’ Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8: From Novice to Professional. (R)
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services Performance Guide
(Carl Rabeler, Len Wyatt and Dave Wickert) Users can analyze data stored in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services with greater speed and flexibility than users can query the same data stored in a relational database. Analysis Services queries data more efficiently because it organizes data into mul
Using Oracle Clusterware to Protect Oracle Application Server
Using the Oracle Clusterware 10g Release 2, together with Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 offers customers a high availability solution fully developed and supported by Oracle. With Oracle Clusterware 10g Release 2, Oracle Clusterware can be implemented independently of Real Application Clus