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Displaying Images from SQL Server database in ASP.NET DataGrid
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Resolving blocking problems that are caused by lock escalation in SQL Server
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Web Services: A Realization of SOA (Sample Chapter)
(Frank Leymann, Francisco Curbera, Donald Ferguson, Tony Storey and Sanjiva Weerawarana) This chapter provides a high-level overview and understanding of the structure and composition of a Web services platform. This platform represents the basic core of a new Web-based distributed computing platfor
Improved information retrieval in IBM Informix Dynamic Server
(Inge Halilovic) For IBM Informix Dynamic Server, Version 10.0, information retrieval from the documentation set has been improved by the addition of an Information Center that contains HTML and PDF versions of the product manuals, a master index, full text search capabilities, and resources for tro
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Unify Windows Forms and ASP.NET Providers for Credentials Management
(Juval Lowy) Windows Forms intranet applications often resort to storing user credentials in a database even when deployed in a homogenous Windows environment. This stems from the limitations of using Windows accounts. For ASP.NET applications, the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 provides out-of-the-bo
Zen and the Art of Information
(George Demarest) Where I stood, seemingly paralyzed by the persistence of The Question. All features of the room receded into the distance, the ambient sounds first amplifying to a deafening din and then reverberating into a diffuse whisper, and then silence. Again and again, I was tortured by my s
Table Spaces And Locking Levels, Part 1
(Bonnie Baker) While I was talking with a programmer about locking contention and overhead one day, I mentioned table and table space locking. She looked at me and in all innocence said, “Oh, we don’t ever use table space or table locking here. We only use page locking.”