As part of the ongoing revision of the Data Reference Model (DRM) for the U.S. Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA), the DRM Working Group has issued a new DRM XML Schema for public review. Working Group members are eager to receive feedback from reviewers as they work toward the planned October 17
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Dynamic page updates using XMLHTTP
One of my favorite ways of studying Web application usability is to watch my wife navigate around a Web site. She can make her way around the Internet quite well, but she knows little about the low-level technical aspects (what she calls “the boring stuff”) that make it all work.
An interview with Bob Beauchemin
(Douglas Reilly) Bob Beauchemin is a developer who not only writes code and develops databases, but also teaches other developers to create applications and databases, often using the latest Microsoft technologies.
Sleepycat Launches Latest Berkeley DB
(Sean Michael Kerner) Sleepycat Software launched a new version of Berkeley DB Java Edition and is offering the catnip of performance and usability improvements with this release.
Use Cascading Stylesheets to display XML, Part 3
(Uche Ogbuji) Parts 1 and 2 of this tutorial series has shown how to use Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) to display XML in browsers, presenting basic and advanced techniques. Although some people see XSLT and CSS as opposing technologies, they are actually very complementary. CSS cannot, and is not
Account for scope when writing stored procedures
(Arthur Fuller) A common problem in writing stored procedures arises when you need to insert one record into table T1 and one or more records into table T2, with the latter containing the PK of the row you just added to T1. Typically, this situation arises when you’re doing batch inserts into a pare
Getting Cumulative Sum Using Oracle Analytical Functions
(Robert Ware) The following code is an alternative way to get a cumulative sum by using Oracle Analytical Function.
Oracle readies second grid database
(Martin LaMonica) The company said that Oracle 10g release 2 will build on the features in its existing edition, which it launched in February of last year. The database is designed to allow corporate customers to combine the processing muscle of several relatively inexpensive hardware servers, offe
Profitability Data Mart: Using Oracle 9i Windowing Functions in Cost of Funds and Interest Expense Calculation
(Radu Lovin) If you want to learn Excel the best way is to ask a finance person to teach you. They dream in Excel. If you ask them what they had for lunch, they quickly open an Excel sheet in their minds, put all the courses with all the ingredients and prices, draw a pivot table, apply a standard d
Using the New Visual Studio 2005 Report Controls
Want to add rich data reports to your Windows applications? Brian Welcker shows how the new report controls in Visual Studio 2005 make it easy to embed managed server reports or build and embed local reports into your Windows Forms application.