(Kim Moutsos) Fred Sobotka spent his formative years coloring on the back of the used punch cards his father brought home from his job at UNIVAC. By junior high, he had a self-described “obsession” with programming, even teaching himself how to code in 6502 assembly language from magazine articles.
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Using Oracle Data Mining to Analyze Sequence Data
Sequence alignment is without doubt one of the most commonly performed bioinformatics tasks. The most widely used sequence alignment algorithm is BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool). BLAST is a method for rapid sequence comparison that was introduced in 1990 by Stephen Altschul. It is typi
DB2 predicate manipulation
In some specific cases, DB2 either modifies some predicates, or generates extra predicates. Although these modifications are transparent to you, they have a direct impact on the access path selection and your PLAN_TABLE results. This is because DB2 always uses an index access path when it is cos
An inside look at how XML works
(Preston Gralla) In my previous column, I explained the underlying architecture of how Web services work and demystified how all of its underlying components work together. This column kicks off a series looking at how each of those elements work. We’ll start off the series by examining the basis of
Data Modeling
(Philip Greenspun) Data modeling is the hardest and most important activity in the RDBMS world. If you get the data model wrong, your application might not do what users need, it might be unreliable, it might fill up the database with garbage. Why then do we start a SQL tutorial with the most challe
GridView Delete, with Confirmation
(azamsharp) Everyone likes a confirmation that lets them know that a record is being deleted. In this article, I will show you how you can prompt confirmation boxes when you delete a record from the GridView control.
Call SOAP Web services with Ajax, Part 2: Extend the Web services client
(James Snell) In Part 1 of this series, I introduced a cross-browser JavaScript library providing a simple SOAP Web services client capable of RPC encoded and document-literal style requests. Included in that client is support for request and response handlers, custom XML serializers/deserializers,
DB2 UDB for z/OS: Design Guidelines for High Performance and Availability
(Paolo Bruni, Patric Becker, Jan Henderyckx, Joseph Link and Bart Steegmans) Conducting business via the Web and remaining open for business 24 hours a day, seven days a week is now commonplace. Customers come in with unexpected workloads through the Web and operate in a self-service fashion with mo
Leverage the .NET Framework with Visual Basic.NET
(G.Gnana Arun Ganesh) Using the .NET Framework, Microsoft Visual Basic developers can build robust applications that were very difficult to write in previous versions of Visual Basic. This article will discuss the the powerful features of the Visual Basic.NET and it`s Data types.
MySQL Gets Government Thumbs Up
(Lisa Vaas) Open source scored its latest government takeover, with MySQL AB nabbing a five-year contract with the General Services Administration that will put its open-source database at the fingertips of government customers.