As one of the most advanced open-source RDBMS currently available, it’s no surprise that MySQL can store data using a variety of different table formats. Indeed, the only surprise is the sheer number of table formats – as of MySQL 4.1, the RDBMS supports no fewer than eight different table formats.
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Using LogMiner – Part 2 – Striking Out
(Steve Callan) In a previous article on LogMiner, the steps for setting up your environment to use this tool were shown. Oracle’s documentation lists several ways LogMiner can be used to recover lost data. Generally, “lost” in this case means a user error induced type of loss. Under the appropriate
Bubbling Events Up the Control Hierarchy
(Scott Mitchell) The DataGrid control, as you likely know, can easily be configured to add a column of buttons. By adding a ButtonColumn, whenever one of the DataGrid’s buttons in the column is clicked, the Web page posts back and the DataGrid’s ItemCommand event fires. In fact, the same behavio
Linux Comes to Wall Street
(Peter Galli) Long relegated to menial file and print server duties in most enterprises, Linux is now playing a mission-critical role in financial trading and other highly sensitive networks on Wall Street. The traction in the financial sector is part of broader Linux adoption growth, which is expec
Billing Is 20% Faster When Acctg. Shifts to XML-Tagged Data
Highly automated accounting departments have invoice-processing bottlenecks too. Case in point is the law firm Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear (Irvine, Calif.), where the accounting staff processes 3,500 monthly invoices and statements.
FIX: You experience non-convergence in a replication topology when you unpublish or drop columns from a dynamically filtered publication in SQL Server 2000
In Microsoft SQL Server 2000, you experience non-convergence in a replication topology. This issue occurs when you unpublish and drop columns from a dynamically filtered merge publication.
Chapter 5: Joins, Temporary Tables, and Transactions
(Jon Stephens and Chad Russell) In this chapter, we’ll discuss three additional features you can use to speed up your MySQL applications. While these aren’t directly related to one another, each represents an opportunity to decrease the amount of database or code overhead required to perform useful
W3C Mobile Web Initiative to Define Best Practices and ‘mobileOK’ Trustmark
The World Wide Web Consortium has announced the launch of a new Mobile Web Initiative (MWI), designed to make “Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy and convenient as Web access from a desktop device.”
IBM and Lawson cozy up
(Alorie Gilbert) IBM and software partner Lawson Software buttressed their alliance with an agreement to jointly sell business systems to midsize companies.
XML Schema May Not Always Be the Right Tool for the Job
(Michael Wacey) Will many of the features in XML Schema be widely used? In particular, I agree that it is better to have an XML language for specifying document layout rather than the DTD language. On the other hand, I am not sure that the document layout should be strongly typed. The nightmare