(Tal Kelley) Several State and Federal contracts that I have worked on in the past have wanted to keep track of all changes to a particular record, such as who modified the record, what kind of modification took place, and when the record modification occurred. I decided to solve this problem wi
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Choose the right RAID level
(Rick Cook) Because of their size and complexity, database management system installations can frequently benefit from using different RAID levels to support various parts of the system. (R)
Syndicating Your Web Site’s Content With RSS And ASP.NET
(Scott Mitchell) About a year ago I wrote an article titled, Syndicating Your Web Site’s Content with RSS. In that article, I looked at how you can provide programmatic access to your site’s latest content through an XML-formatted syndication standard known as RSS. The code in Syndicating Your We
XML Rich-Client Technology Brings Zero-Install Rich Client Capabilities to J2EE
(Coach Wei) Which platform to use Java or .NET? Developers ask this question all the time. Java has been widely adopted because of its overwhelming benefits on the server side, but Java has less to offer on the client side. .NET has made inroads into the enterprise by leveraging its stronger rich-cl
Oracle’s multicore pricing: right direction, not far enough
(Timothy Prickett Morgan) Chip makers can add performance by shrinking chip transistors every 12 to 18 months and jacking up clock speeds and adding features such as cache. But chips are getting too hot, which burns users twice: once with the electric bill for running the chip and again for the air
Performance and Parameters
(Robert Cozzi, Jr.) When I wrote the RPG xTools, I included a procedure that converts DB2/400 files to comma-separated values (CSV) format. Originally, I used this routine on a number of small files containing roughly several hundred to a few thousand records. It seemed to work quickly enough.
A new platform layer in SQL Server 2005 to exploit new hardware capabilities and their trends
(Slava Oks) Hardware trends affect choices we make when designing and developing software. In the current market personal computers with high number of CPUs are no longer fiction – they are reality. Exploiting of such features as symmetric multi-threading, SMT, multiple CPUs per socket, weaker consi
Object Interaction in PHP: Introduction to Composition, conclusion
(Alejandro Gervasio) In the first article of this series, the concept of composition in object-oriented programming was explained, and illustrated with an example that implemented composition using two simple classes. In this article, we will create a MySQL database wrapping class that uses the conc
Improved .NET Remoting, Part 1: Same-Box Communication
(Mark Strawmyer) .NET remoting enables application communication. It is a generic system that different applications can use to communicate with one another. By exposing its objects to remote processes, .NET allows interprocess communication. The applications can be located on the same computer, dif
Move Data from an XML String into a DataSet
(Ken Getz) I have an application in which I need to take XML data that’s handed to me as an XML string, and import it into a DataSet. I get the data as a String containing the XML, and really don’t want to save it to a file before loading it. I checked out the DataSet class, and found that […]