(Craig Borysowich) This paper discusses object technology and database management as they interact on software development projects. It calls attention to the difficult problems faced by the designers and the development team. The paper points out that the important issue is not the structure o
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Prevalence: Transparent, Fault-Tolerant Object Persistence
(Jim Paterson) When people talk about object persistence, they usually mean the storage of objects or their states in a database. This will usually be a relational database, or possibly an alternative, in the form of an object database such as db4objects, described in a previous article.
How the .NET Debugger Works – Introduction
(Jon Shute) This article looks at how .NET debugging API works. In theory this API is simple and a joy to use, but there is a lack of a detailed overview as to how to use it in the framework SDK and you have to get some information from looking through the sources to the example debugger that is sup
First Look: Crystal Reports XI
(David McAmis) Most developers might know Crystal Reports from versions included in Studio, Visual Studio.NET, and other popular developer IDE’s such as BEA Workshop, C# Builder, Delphi 2005, JBuilder, WebSphere.
FIX: You experience slow performance when you join local partitioned views with a table in SQL Server 2000
When you join local partitioned views with a table in Microsoft SQL Server 2000, SQL Server produces an inefficient query execution plan. The inefficient query execution plan causes poor performance. See the More Information section underneath for a demonstration of reducing the partition view t
DB2 UDB for z/OS Version 8: Backup System and Restore System Utilities
(Bryan Paulsen) DB2 UDB for z/OS Version 8 introduces two new system-level utilities that provide for robust backup and restore solution at the DB2 system level instead of the DB2 object level. The new utilities are Backup System and Restore System. These utilities provide functionality for backing
FIX: You receive an ODBC error message when you run a pass-through query in Office Access to import data from an Oracle database into Office Excel
When you try to use a pass-through query to import data from Microsoft Office Access into Microsoft Office Excel, you may receive an error message that is similar to the following: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Reserved error (|); there is no message for this error.
Access Web services as databases: Tying disparate applications together
(Jeff K. Wilson) This tutorial is for J2EE developers struggling to find the best method of incorporating disparate environments and looking for an easy way to leverage standard data access methodologies for consuming data. With WebSphere Information Integrator, developers can access data — ult
XmlGrid
(El’Cachubrey) The control is intended for displaying and editing data of an XML file in property grid. Also this control fits data for convenient displaying by particular rules defined in a schema file.
Creating Dynamic Website Content With PHP – MySQL
(Don Beavers) If your web site hosting company provides free access to PHP and MySQL, this article will show you how to combine those two open source tools and replace a portion of your websites’ static content with frequently changing dynamic content.