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(Peyton McCullough) You are probably already familiar with a few dialogs that can be used in your wxPython applications. Of course, wxPython contains many more dialogs, ranging in complexity from very simple to pretty advanced and covering a variety of topics, from text selection to color selection.
IBM Application Development and Problem Determination Tools for z/OS and OS/390
(Joe DeCarlo, Eric Chabert, Sylvie Delahaye, Sergei Litvak and Gary Racine) This IBM Redbook introduces the IBM Problem Determination and Deployment Tools for z/OS and OS/390 . The tools covered are: – IBM Application Monitor for z/OS, Version 2, Release 1 – IBM Debug Tool for z/OS, Version 5,
The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Productivity Tips for Building a .NET Distributed Application
(Kevin S. Goff) This installment of "The Baker’s Dozen" presents a Windows Forms database application that demonstrates some of the primary attributes of a distributed architecture. These attributes include authentication and connectivity, data management, business objects, user-interface modules, a
MDX Essentials: String Functions: The .Name Function
(William Pearson) In this lesson, we will expose another popular function in the MDX toolset, the .Name function. The general purpose of the .Name function is, unsurprisingly, to return the name of the object to which it is appended. It can be used with hierarchies, dimensions, levels, and membe
SQL Essentials: Using TRY/CATCH to Resolve Deadlocks in SQL Server 2005
(Ron Talmage) Deadlocks are unavoidable artifacts of today’s RDBMS architecture–and all too common in high-volume OLTP environments. But thanks to .NET’s Common Language Runtime (CLR), SQL Server 2005 provides developers with a new way to deal with error handling. In this month’s column, Ron Talmage
Roman Conquers Backlog with Oracle’s HTML DB
(John K. Waters) About two-and-a-half years ago, Tony Jedlinski, VP of administration and warehouse operations at Roman, found himself with an application maintenance backlog he was sure he’d never catch up. Roman had decided 18 years earlier to build its own applications—a logical choice for on
Getting and Displaying Images from SQL Server with C#
(Jesse Smith) In part 1 of this series, I explained how to use C# scripts to get your web site’s images into your SQL Server database. In this article, I show you how to win the second half of the battle by retrieving images from SQL Server and displaying them in a web page.
Database Interaction with PL/SQL, Explicit Cursors
(Jagadish Chatarji) This article introduces the concept of explicit cursor. We will also examine different approaches to work with explicit cursor. This builds on the concept or cursors, which I looked at in my previous article along with looking at SQL cursor and cursor attributes.
BI is Ready for Open Source – Is Open Source Ready for BI?
(Sam Mohamad) Thomas Edison introduced the world to electricity in 1879 with great fanfare. In contrast, the world hardly noticed when, more than 25 years later, in 1904, a gentleman named Harvey Hubbell was awarded a government patent for his “separable plug.” Hubbell, more interested in practicali