(Dino Esposito) Microsoft Office documents not only offer an easy and effective way for users to communicate and collaborate, but they also get smarter with each new release and increase connectivity with the remainder of the software universe. In some cases, though, Office applications can’t re
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(Soumendra Mohanty) The data warehouse should be considered a work in progress, always needing improvements. Part-2 of this article discusses the factors that affect complex data environments and how they can be managed and improved.
.NET Generics for VB Programmers
(Paul Kimmel) .NET 2.0 supports templates called generics. The basic concept is the same: Define a method or a class with one or more methods, specifying the data type as a replaceable element. By convention, the capital letter T is used. Finally, when you use the method or class, indicate a type fo
To SP or not to SP in SQL Server – Introduction
(Douglas Reilly) A number of years ago, I went to work for SportSoft Golf (later Golf Society of the U.S.), one of the dot-com companies of old. Like many dot-com companies, SportSoft Golf failed not long after September 11th. While working there, the change from doing both fat client and intranet d
Installing WebSphere Studio Application Monitor V3.1
(Joe DeCarlo, Breet “Chuck” Bangle, Nichole Cargill and Dennis Moore) This IBM Redbook is for installers of IBM WebSphere Studio Application Monitor for Multiplatforms, including performance analysts, WebSphere administrators, and technical managers. Our goal is to provide a useful overview about in
Who Are You?
(George Demarest) Everyone on the security team at Oracle wears a trench coat and a fedora, just like everyone in disaster protection wears a HAZMAT suit. So it was easy to identify Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle’s chief security officer, as I went to interview her for this piece.
Part 1: Subqueries in de SELECT clause
This article is the first of a series on the more advanced features of DB2’s SQL dialect. Most programmers limit themselves to the use of basic SQL statements. Consequently, they are not using the full power of DB2. The better a programmer understands SQL, the more efficient his or her programs
Certifications still important for DBAs
(Jack Loftus) Today’s DBA is a coat rack of sorts, with each peg representing a different certification on any number of the big vendor platforms available in the enterprise domain. (R)
Using a BLOB data type in a CMP Entity
(Debu Panda) I got an email from a customer who wanted to use BLOB data type in their CMP entity bean. They store images in BLOB data types in Oracle database and want to map their CMP entity bean field to a BLOB data type. Manipulation of CLOB and BLOB from J2EE applications is a challenging ta
Servlet and JSP Development (Sample Chapter)
(Harshad Oak) This chapter introduces Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSPs) and then presents a simple example to display how to use JDeveloper in creating Servlets and JSPs. (pdf)