(Tony Marston) As you should be aware the HTTP protocol, as used for serving web pages, is completely stateless. This means that after the server has received a request, processed it and sent a response, the process which dealt with that request dies. Anything that the process had in its memory ther
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FIX: Some 32-bit applications that use SQL-DMO and SQL-VDI APIs may stop working after you install SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 on an Itanium-based computer
You install Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4) on an Itanium-based computer that is running a 64-bit version of Microsoft SQL Server 2000. When you do this, some 32-bit applications that are running on the local computer may stop working. The applications that stop working use SQL Distri
Data and Database Management: Centralized Versus Decentralized
(Anne Marie Smith) Traditionally in many organizations, the control of data resources has been centralized due to the origin of data management within the mainframe environment. However, with the emergence of client-server technology and the blending of data and process in the object-oriented metho
Mining for Clues
(Arup Nanda) Paul is on the other end of the line and is irate. He had been the account manager for a customer named Ellen Smith for the past 20 years. But today, when Ellen walked into the bank, the system said Paul was no longer the account manager! Embarrassed and justifiably upset, he is screami
Simple infrastructure for EDA processor agent
(Peter Abrahams) Event Driven Architecture (EDA) has had less press than its relation, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), but it is probably going to be just as important.
Learning PHP, Part 1
(Nicholas Chase and Tyler Anderson) This tutorial is Part 1 of a three-part series that takes you from the most basic PHP script to working with databases and streaming from the file system by documenting the building of a document workflow system. In this part, we look at the basics of building a P
Oracle Bends (A Bit) On Multi-Core Licensing
(Barbara Darrow) Oracle is bending — kind of — on its licensing policies for the new multi-core CPUs coming on the market, sources tell CRN.
IBM and Zend deliver PHP-based environment
(Ed Scannell) IBM and Zend made good on their promise made this past February to jointly deliver Zend Core for IBM, an integrated solution to developers deploy data base applications and services using the Web-based PHP language.
What’s Wrong with This Code? Java Swing and Threading
(Marcus Zarra) In this article, I challenge you to examine two Java Swing examples, specifically using threads. Each are wrong, in a subtle but painful way.
Inserting specific values into identity columns
(Arthur Fuller) Here is the problem du jour: You must rebuild a table (T1), and make sure you preserve the primary key (PK) values in T1. You want to move all the data into table T2, which has an identity key, while preserving the PKs from table T1. Once you move all the T1 data into T2, you want T2