(Scott Mitchell) The goal of ASP.NET’s site navigation feature is to allow a developer to specify a site map that describes his website’s logical structure. A site map is constructed of an arbitrary number of hierarchically-related site map nodes, which typical contain a name and URL. The site navig
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SQL Server 2005 – Data Definition Language Triggers
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) One of the many new features that have been added to SQL Server 2005 is DDL triggers. We use DML triggers in SQL Server 7.0 and 2000, which executes a bunch of SQL statements or procedures whenever an INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE statement is executed and limited to a table or
DataTable offers .NET developers a resource-friendly option
(Tony Patton) Most .NET developers are familiar with the often overused DataSet objects. The DataTable object receives much less attention, which is unfortunate since DataTable objects provide plenty of features that are more appropriate in many development scenarios—especially when performance is a
Custom Editor Parts
(Brian Mains) The new feature, web parts, provides a portal infrastructure to .NET applications. Web parts can be added, removed, and reordered, while retaining all of these settings using the personalization API. This feature is a tremendous feature to add to the framework, especially since web par
Introduction to monitoring DB2 v8
(Philip Gunning) Regardless of how well a RDBMS performs, the monitoring of SQL statements and resources is required to ensure continued good performance and to identify problem areas. Using the information gathered, adjustments can be made to instance and database configuration parameters, physical
MySQL and Business Objects Forge Close Partnership
Over the last year, Business Objects, the world’s leading business intelligence software vendor with more than 30,000 customers worldwide, and MySQL AB, which develops and supports a family of high performance affordable database products including MySQL, the world’s most popular open source datab
Upgrading to Oracle Database 10g, concluded
(Kevin Loney and Bob Bryla) Export and Import provide you with an indirect method for the upgrade. You can create an Oracle 10g database alongside your existing database and use Export and Import to move data from the old database to the new database. When the movement of the data is complete, you w
SQL Server Clinic: Stop locking and blocking
(Jeremy Kadlec) Locking is a necessary component of the SQL Server engine to properly ensure transactions are processed accurately with high levels of concurrency. Unfortunately, those locks can quickly become unwieldy and reduce SQL Server from a high concurrent database to a single-user machine wi
BizTalk 2004 Adapter Alternatives for Handling Web Services
(Jeffrey Juday) Although BizTalk 2004 is generations ahead of its predecessor in handling Web services, it still presents some limitations when you begin to invoke a Web service. For example, BizTalk does not handle Web service ArrayList return types and other complicated XML message schemes.
Navigate The .NET Framework And Your Projects With The My Namespace
(Duncan Mackenzie) I set out to write this article about Visual Basic 2005, but that left too many things to choose from. I could wander through the entire feature list, giving you a bit of information on cool IDE features like Edit and Continue, IntelliSense Code Snippets, or the Exception Assistan