(Phil Factor) The development foot soldiers in the IT army are required to have two arrows in their quiver: fluency with the procedural language currently in fashion and a measure of skill in database programming.
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User-defined Interfaces in PHP 5: Introduction to Core Concepts
(Alejandro Gervasio) PHP5 takes users increasingly in the direction of object-oriented programming. The Standard PHP Library (SPL) is a new item that helps developers both with the creation of OOP applications and the maintenance of standardization. The SPL enables developers to work with user-defin
Oracle Under Pressure
(Kristen Kenedy) Solution providers, along with their vendor partners, are pressuring Oracle executives to reduce software licensing costs for multicore processors.
Interactive Sorting Within Reporting Services
(William Pearson) A common request within the implementation of enterprise reporting systems is to endow the reports of our users with interactive features. While we have spent a great deal of time upon parameterization in general (even discussing parameterized sorting in Black Belt Components: Ad H
Release the full potential of MySQL with these 10 power tips
(Mellonfire) MySQL is easy to learn and use, and comes with extensive documentation—two factors that have contributed a great deal to its popularity. However, given the speed at which the MySQL code base evolves, even veteran MySQL users are sometimes pleasantly surprised to discover hitherto-unexpe
The auto update statistics option, the auto create statistics option, and the Parallelism setting are turned off in the SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005 database instance
This article discusses why the auto create statistics option, the auto update statistics option, and the Parallelism setting are turned off in the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database instance that hosts the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 BizTalkMsgBoxDB database or the Mic
UniData Recoverable File System (RFS)
(Wally Terhune) Database and system administrators who are responsible for a UniData system that has the Recoverable File System (RFS) feature enabled will find this article most helpful. All RFS status and error messages are recorded in the $UDTBIN/sm.log file. You will find examples to help you fi
Simplify Development With The Declarative Model Of Windows Workflow Foundation
(Don Box and Dharma Shukla) WinFX includes a technology called Windows Workflow Foundation that allows programs to be expressed as declarative, long-running processes called workflows. Unlike traditional Microsoft .NET Framework programs, workflow-based programs are typically specified in a declarat
Smart Client – Composite UI Application Block
This page provides an overview of the Composite UI Application Block. This application block is a reusable, source code–based component based on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. It provides proven practices to build complex smart client user interfaces based on well known design patterns such as th
Serializing, Consuming, and Binding Generics in .NET 2.0
(Thiru Thangarathinam) Generics, a new feature introduced with .NET 2.0, provides type safety at compile time. Generics let you create data structures without committing to a specific data types in your code at design time. At compile time, the compiler ensures that the types used with the data stru