(Mahesh Chand) Master pages is a new concept in ASP.NET 2.0, which allows site developers to build master templates for their site’s look and feel and put all common code which is shared by all the pages.
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Automate data collection for problem determination, Part 4: The Automated Problem Determination Tool
(Bob Moore, Brad Topol, Jie Xing, Thomas McElroy and Belinda Chang) This article completes the discussion of the Automated Problem Determination (AutoPD) tool’s symptom analysis function that began in the previous article in the series, “Overview of symptom analysis.” Before we go further into how
Introducing SPARQL: Querying the Semantic Web
(Leigh Dodds) This tutorial, the first of a three-part series, introduces SPARQL — a query language and data access protocol for the Semantic Web. SPARQL is defined in terms of the W3C’s RDF data model and will work for any data source that can be mapped into RDF. The specification is under develop
SQL Server freebie: DDL Archive Utility for generating scripts
(Serdar Yegulalp) SQL Server’s Data Description Language (DDL) allows you to write scripts that define data and data relationships in a database. It’s used to load data into a database rather than create the database itself. So, if you’re testing SQL Server, DDL scripts will quickly repopulate a dat
Add Some Spring to Your Oracle JDBC Access
(Dustin Marx) JDBC is a standard data-access protocol that is typically used to access relational databases. A significant advantage of JDBC is its standardized API, which allows for portability of Java-based data-accessing applications. JDBC is considered an integral part of both standard Java (J2S
XML and OO in Oracle, A Scenario
(Lewis R Cunningham) I was laying around thinking about XML and how my current project is passing the data back and forth. The application I’m designing is a service that will be called from at least two others applications and possibly more. The service is implemented via stored procedure that will
Use Option Explicit
(Susan Sales Harkins and Mike Gunderloy) The number one coding error happens to all of us: It’s the typo that occurs when you incorrectly enter the name of a variable. Fortunately, you can completely avoid this error by adding an Option Explicit statement to your module.
Get an Edge with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
(Shushmul Maheshwari) The ultimate utility of a database lies in presenting the data in different formats to fulfill the information requirements of various users. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (SSRS) gives nontechnical end users and programmers a server-based reporting platform that
Dealing with Level 2 disasters: Network intruders
(Mike Talon) Last week, we discussed a disaster classification system and what might happen if someone launched an unsupported rumor about hacking your company’s data. But what happens if the threat becomes real? In these instances, there may be no actual data loss, but such an attack can be a disas
Installing MySQL MaxDB Synchronization Manager
(Carl “C.J.” Collier) The Synchronization Manager (SyncMan) provides a platform for database-agnostic data replication and synchronization. The platform is built on Java technologies such as the Java Messaging Service (JMS) and the Java Database Connectivity framework (JDBC). The core SyncMan serv