(Matt Zandstra) The May 2005 IBM developerWorks article “Getting started with objects with PHP V5” covered enough detail to get a reader up and running with the basics of classes and objects in PHP. This article introduces some of PHP V5’s more advanced and design-oriented features. Among them are o
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Extract raw Soap Message returned from Foreign Web Service after Deserialization Failure in a Web Service
(OmegaMan) In my job I have to write the code which will consume third party web services. In the course of working with differing companies web services I discovered that some of those would return invalid Xml data. That data was invalid due to either from an outdated schema or had some subtle prob
SQL Bundle Developer Edition helps building company customize installation and upgrades of key SQL databases
(Burton Rodman) If you develop SQL databases, you know how difficult it can be to promote from the development environment to production with any level of confidence that the databases are the same.
Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft.NET Solution Architectures, Part VIII
(Chris Sully) The aim of this series of articles is to provide an overview of issues surrounding the architecture of .NET Solutions. In doing so it is following Microsoft’s recommended approach and, in particular, looking at the requirements of the related Microsoft certification exam (70-300), whic
Integrate Cloudscape Version 10 or Derby with Tomcat
(Lance Bader) Cloudscape is a relational database manager implemented in Java. Tomcat is the reference servlet container implemented in Java. This article is a cookbook, providing step-by-step recipes for integrating them in three common scenarios: the prototype integration, the casual integration,
My.Internals: Examining the Visual Basic My Feature
(Tyler Whitney) My is a new feature in Visual Basic 2005 that puts commonly used functionality at your fingertips and reduces the number of lines of code that you have to write. It does this in a way that is efficient, robust, and thread-safe. In an environment where programmer productivity matters
Preserve statistics when transporting tablespaces
This is a recipe to transport a self-contained tablespace without having to re-analyze tables and indexes. This of course assumes that optimizer statistics have already been collected. The example uses a schema called DEMO and a tablespace called TRANSTS.
It’s a choice of two, but power of one
(Rob O’Neill) For James Furness, the chief information officer of Western Australia’s Coventry Group, buying new enterprise software was a “stay-in-business” decision.
Data Management Solutions for Information Governance
Princeton Softech, the market leader in application database archiving, today announced the general availability of Archive for DB2 and Relational Tools Release 5.4, enabling companies to implement Information Governance strategies, improve performance and mitigate business risks.
Database Interaction with PL/SQL: Sub-programs in Depth
(Jagadish Chatarji) This is part 13 of a series of articles focusing on database interactions with Oracle PL/SQL. In my previous article, we concentrated on procedures and discussed some issues of variable scoping with respect to sub-programs. In this article we proceed with some tips on using proce