(W. Jason Gilmore) All programmers know that code reuse is the key to an efficient and timely, not to mention sane, application development process. Yet far too few practice what is so often preached, much to the chagrin of colleagues, clients, and project managers everywhere. Such irrationality
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Essential XSL
(G Kishore) In this, the fourth part of the XML Workshop, the author discusses some XSL elements and functions that are very useful for XML document transformation and presentation.
South Carolina School Gives DB2 A’s in Efficiency, Cost Savings
(Anne Chen) By leveraging IBM DB2 Universal Database 8.2 features such as autonomic computing and Microsoft Corp. .Net application support, Richland School District Two has been able to provide real-time Web access to mission-critical information residing on legacy systems.
Your free search engine – Microsoft Indexing Server
(Klaus Salchner) Many web applications provide a search capability, which allows users to search all the content of a web application. This seems at first glance to be a difficult task. How can you search all the files in your web application and at the same provide robust search capabilities most u
Using MySQL with .NET – Introduction
(cardinals33) Ever wanted to combine the power and ease of the .NET platform with a free database like MySQL? Well thanks to ODBC database functions in ADO.NET it’s really easy. All you need is the latest drivers for ADO.NET and MySQL installed. For this tutorial we will use C# to build a simple app
Oracle and the Open Source Database
(Lewis R Cunningham) There has been a lot online recently about open source databases and the possibility of Oracle open sourcing their database. Oracle has “embraced” the open source community by certifying certain products with Oracle and by providing PHP and Linux platform support. With the o
Unleash the complimentary powers of ADO.NET and SQL Server 2005
In the past, Microsoft’s ADO.NET and SQL Server were generally designed and developed separately. But the most recent versions share many complementary features and technologies revolving around XML. ADO.NET and System.Xml v. 2.0–The Beta Version, 2nd Edition, written by Alex Homer, Dave Sussman, a
Disaster Recovery Insourcing
(Peter Sjoberg) For most large companies, recovery from a disaster has historically taken place via a service provider at a shared recovery data center. This is typically referred to as hotsite recovery. In this scenario, a company declares a disaster to their service provider then goes to the r
Best Practices for SAP Business Information Warehouse on DB2 for z/OS V8
(Mike Ebbers, Brenda Beane, David Bellion, Nick Dyke, Andrew Hartman, Veng Ly, Mike Mardis, Bala Prabahar, Michael Thelosen, Theodor H. Kuebler, Mark Gordon, Terry Purcell, Joachim Rese and Lydia Parziale) This IBM Redbook describes the benefits of DB2 V8 for SAP Business Information Warehouse. It c
Web services choreography in practice
(Jerome Josephraj) Find out how you can use the Web Service Choreography Interface (WSCI) to weave different Web services into meaningful business processes. The author presents a simple stock trading example that highlights the shortfalls of using Web Services Description Language (WSDL) for busine