(James F. Koopmann) Concerned about looking at statistics within Oracle? You should take a quick look at Oracles’ new method of turning collections on or off.
Other News
Create and Share Your Own Code Snippets
(Josh Fitzgerald) One of the most intriguing new features of VB 2005 is IntelliSense Code Snippets. Code snippets make it easy to insert commonly used pieces of code into your project. They are also great for very valuable pieces of code whose syntax you never get the quite right without consulting
Using Visual Studio 2005’s WSAT to configure your web application
(Ludmal Suranga De Silva) Configuration is one of ASP.NET’s powerful features. Although it can be used in production sites by simply editing the web.config XML file, we tend to forget how to add impersonation or custom error pages to the configuration file, or we are unaware of XML’s case sensitivit
Oracle halfway to Fusion
(Alorie Gilbert) Oracle executives took the stage in San Francisco to rally support for the company’s development plans after a run of recent acquisitions that has left Wall Street lukewarm on the firm.
Improving Performance with SQL Server 2005 Indexed Views
(Eric Hanson, Gail Erickson, Lubor Kollar and Jason Ward) This document describes the improved indexed views capability of SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition. Indexed views are explained and specific scenarios in which they may provide performance improvements are discussed.
Reserved Resource Database in SQL Server 2005
(Vinod Kumar) Also called as RDB this is a new concept in SQL Server 2005 which I thought was worth taking a look at. In previous version of SQL Server 2000 whenever we had to upgrade a system defined object we had to drop and recreate. And rollback of the same was also something that we as DBA’s ha
Learn The ABCs Of Programming Windows Communication Foundation
(Aaron Skonnard) Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), formerly code-named “Indigo,” is about to radically change the face of distributed programming for developers using the Microsoft .NET Framework. WCF unifies the existing suite of .NET distributed technologies into a single programming model t
All Aboard AJAX, HTML Canvas, and the Supertrain
(Dave Hoover) Apple’s Safari browser introduced the canvas HTML element, allowing web developers to create two-dimensional drawings using a simple JavaScript API. With the recent release of Firefox 1.5, canvas took a significant step toward the mainstream (canvas is currently being considered for in
Using MySQL with .NET
(cardinals33) Ever wanted to combine the power and ease of the .NET platform with a free database like MySQL? Well thanks to ODBC database functions in ADO.NET it’s really easy. All you need is the latest drivers for ADO.NET and MySQL installed. For this tutorial we will use C# to build a simple app
(Un)common but potentially mind-twisting DB2 issues
(Dan Scott) It is perhaps a sad reflection on my life that I’m using a personal blog to offer technical information about a product that I work on, rather than telling you about what I ate last night (spinach and goat cheese salad with a raspberry vinaigrette dressing, quinoa, and a rather tomatoey