(Patrick Gallucci) Dynamic code generation has existed for quite a while. In fact, you’ll find tools that can help developers generate tens of thousands of lines of code with just a click of a button. Some of these are even flexible enough to allow you to modify the tokens in the template—or even th
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Developing Web Applications for .NET and J2EE Using a Single Source Strategy
(Marco Nanni) Portability is a feature that can notably improve the market share of a software product. The ASP.NET technology allows the development of web applications that are browser independent but it limits the application to running inside an IIS web server.
Index Covering Boosts SQL Server Query Performance
(Alexander Kuznetsov) Creating a non-clustered index that contains all the columns used in a SQL query, a technique called index covering, is a quick and easy solution to many query performance problems. Sometimes just adding a column or two to an index can really boost the query’s performance. Chec
VSA Scripting in .NET – Introduction
(Mark Belles) This article will focus on Visual Studio for Applications, or VSA, and explain how it can be integrated with .NET programs. It will also explain a few key areas you must understand in order to successfully integrate VSA into your programs.
What’s new with T-SQL in SQL Server 2005
(Jeremy Kadlec) In preparation for the SQL Server 2005 launch this November, I recently conducted a survey of Edgewood Solutions’ customers, asking them what they consider to be the most valuable features in Microsoft’s new database release. One common response across all positions, industries, comp
Essential performance forecasting, part 2: I/O
(Craig Shallahamer) As I wrote in the first part of this series, forecasting Oracle performance is absolutely essential for every DBA to understand and perform. When performance begins to degrade, it’s the DBA who hears about it, and it’s the DBA who’s supposed to fix it. Fortunately, low precision
Oracle BPEL Process Manager (Sample Chapter)
In this chapter we will take a detailed look at the Oracle BPEL Process Manager Version 2.0, a BPEL server that enables us to deploy and run business processes defined in BPEL. Oracle BPEL Process Manager is developed in Java and runs on a J2EE application server. In addition to deploying and ru
Row-Level Security with Virtual Private Database
(David C. Knox) For many years, Oracle’s customers repeatedly asked for a logical and elegant method for applying security policies to the data within database tables. And for many years, Oracle responded by saying, “Use views with functions.” As Chapter 10 illustrates, in many circumstances thi
Find Out What’s New with Code Access Security in the .NET Framework 2.0
(Mike Downen) Security in the Microsoft .NET Framework encompasses many technologies: role-based security in the base class libraries (BCL) and in ASP.NET, cryptography classes in the BCL, and new support for using access control lists (ACLs) are just a few examples. One of the technologies in the .
Can I do an ‘in-place’ upgrade on the x64 OS?
(Larry Chesnut) Well, it certainly has been awhile since my last blog. In that time we have seen several conferences come and go: PDC, PASS, and the HP Tech Forum (which I just got back from). At these conferences, Microsoft has laid out before us a lot of great knowledge –and even some breaking ne