(Douglas Reilly) In Part I of this series, I discussed the role and value of conferences in the career development of SQL Server and .NET developers. In this article, I move on to discuss online technical forums, focusing on what to do before you post on a newsgroup or forum in order to derive maxim
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Trees and Hierarchies in Oracle
(Steve Callan) You may think you know everything there is to know about the Scott schema, but part of its overall usefulness lies in how versatile it is with respect to its ability to illustrate many of Oracle’s and SQL’s features. The illustrative point examined in this article concerns trees and h
Iterators in the Simplest Sense: Traversing Data Structures in PHP 5
(Alejandro Gervasio) Welcome to the final part of the series “Iterators in the Simplest Sense.” In this set of articles, you’ll learn the basic concepts of iterators in PHP 4 and PHP 5. The overall learning experience is strongly focused on the practical sense of the topic, so you can start quickly
Simplify Web site maintenance by using resource files in your .NET apps
(Tony Patton) A resource file contains static, non-executable data that is deployed with an application. A common usage for resource files is error messages and static user interface text. Resource files allow you to easily change the data without touching the application code.
XML in Firefox 1.5, Part 2: Basic XML processing
(Uche Ogbuji) A few important things have happened in the Firefox world since my article “XML in Firefox 1.5, Part 1: Overview of XML features” was first published in September 2005 (updated March 2006). Chief among these is the release of Firefox 1.5, and then the release of the current version of
Create And Host Custom Designers With The .NET Framework 2.0
(Dinesh Chandnani) Version 1.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework provided a very flexible design-time architecture, but offered virtually no implemented code to actually create and host designers. All of the hosting logic was implemented in Visual Studio .NET, requiring third parties to rewrite all of
DataReader And DataSet
(John Charles) ADO.NET is part of Microsoft.NET which comprises a set of tools and object model for accessing a data source. The objects definition appears under the System.Data namespace. It allows applications to store, manipulate and retrieve data. In this article I’m going to talk about the two
Customize database queries using views in PostgreSQL
(Mellonfire) One of PostgreSQL’s more useful capabilities is the ability to create custom “views”. These views are nothing more than pre-defined SQL queries, which are stored in the database and can be re-used as and when needed. Storing frequently-used SQL queries in this manner is more efficient t
Laying the foundation for a Service-Oriented Architecture
Take an in-depth look at how IBM WebSphere solutions can be used in a Service-Oriented Architecture to unite scattered information, organize business processes and improve responsiveness in an affordable and productive manner. (R)
DB2 Content Manager Standard Edition V8.3 for iSeries
(Jack Boswell) This article provides steps for setting up the data model for a DB2 Content Manager system. The new data model adds the flexibility to have hierarchal child components.