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Tip: Computing word count in XML documents
(Uche Ogbuji) One of the best things about XML is that it’s just text, and you can use many general-purpose text processing tools to work with it. Occasionally, however, this doesn’t work so well because the tags get in the way. As an author for developerWorks I have to submit my work in an XML temp
Q Replication Live Monitor
(Tom Jacopi) IBM WebSphere Information Integrator Version 8.2 introduced Q replication and event publishing for DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) tables by extending the replication support of WebSphere Information Integrator. Both Q replication and event publishing consist of the QCapture compon
Undocumented stored procedures: Work directly with directories, files and drives
(Serdar Yegulalp) A T-SQL script will rarely need to access the file system directly. The vast majority of programming recommendations encourage you to manipulate files or folders through business logic (i.e., using a C#/VB.NET application) rather than a T-SQL script. However, in the few instanc
Automating Installation of Oracle Database 10g and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
(Casimir Saternos) One of the well accepted best practices in system administration is to automate routine tasks whenever possible. Oracle Database 10g includes a number of enhancements and new features that automate common deployment and configuration activities.
The PHP Scripting Language (Sample Chapter)
(Hugh E. Williams and David Lane) This chapter is the first of three that focus on the PHP scripting language. This chapter describes the PHP language basics. Chapter 3 describes PHP’s support for arrays, strings, and other data types, and Chapter 4 introduces object-oriented programming in PHP.
TOAD for MySQL Review
(Lewis R Cunningham) If you are an Oracle developer then you are at least familiar with TOAD (if not, you should be). I see TOAD in jobs ads and in resumes on a regular basis. It’s become somewhat of a defacto standard. Sure, there are other tools. I’ve personally used PL/SQL Developer, SQL*Navi
Creating Custom ASP.NET 2.0 Profile Providers
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