(Bill Cressman) Have you ever wanted to connect to a database without dealing with Oracle’s annoying reliance on the tnsnames.ora file?
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Use Our ManWrap Library to Get the Best of .NET in Native C++ Code
(Paul DiLascia) The Managed Extensions for C++ make it possible to mix native and managed code freely, even in the same module. Wow, life is good! Compiling with /clr, however, has consequences you may not want. It forces multithreading and dispenses with some useful runtime checks. It interferes wi
User Defined Exception: Improve Error Handling in Web Services
(Ayyappan Gandhirajan) Exception handling is an important aspect in any software application development. An exception is an event that occurs during the execution of a program that disrupts the normal flow of instructions. When the exception occurs in a Web Service, it will be propagated to the cli
RACF, Started Tasks and System Privileges
(Michael Cairns) As a Resource Access Control Facility (RACF) security administrator and occasional systems programmer, I’m often asked why a job, started task, or user ID has lost access, stopped working or won’t start when it was “working perfectly yesterday” and the customer “changed nothing.” Wh
MySQL 5.0 Data Dictionary
(Trudy Pelzer) This book is for the long-time MySQL user who wants to know “what’s new” in version 5. The short answer is “stored procedures, triggers, views, and information schema”. The long answer is the MySQL 5.0 New Features series, and this book is the last in that series. (pdf)
Editing Data with the Data Access Application Block
(Dimitrios Markatos) In an article I wrote for another website, titled “An Introduction to ADO.NET”, I wrote an overview on data access within the .NET framework that included v1.1, and demonstrated many different techniques that one could easily retrieve data with. This article will continue wh
Use Extended Properties to Synchronize Your Documentation, Database Objects, and Code
(Drew Georgopulos) Of the many challenges in creating, distributing, and obtaining consensus for documentation, I find the chief challenge is keeping the statements in the documentation synchronized with changing business conditions, conditions that change due to competitive forces (sales and acquis
MySQL takes database upgrade for test drive
(James Niccolai) MySQL has released the first beta version of a major upgrade to its open source database, adding several features designed for corporate users.
.NET Regular Expressions and Captures
(Tom Archer) The result of a regular expression is a collection (MatchCollection) of Match objects (see Figure 1). Within each Match object is a collection (GroupCollection) of Group objects. Each Group object within the GroupCollection represents either the entire match or a sub-match that was defi
Scaling for High Availability: WebSphere XD and WebSphere Application Server for z/OS
(Paul DiMarzio, Brent Watson and Patrick C. Ryan) This IBM Redpaper addresses several existing issues with respect to helping customers and IBM personnel decide when it is advantageous to deploy applications using z/OS-based solutions and when to deploy using distributed solutions, primarily zSeries