(A. Russell Jones) number of technologies of interest to developers are incubating in Redmond right now. It’s been a long time since we first caught wind of “Whidbey” and we’ve got a good while yet to wait, at least for RTP code. Meanwhile, related technologies—some with dependencies—have also
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.NET Remoting and Event Handling in VB .NET, Part 2
(Paul Kimmel) Part 1 of the three-part .NET Remoting and Event Handling in VB .NET series introduced a Singleton remote server with published events as a text-chat server. The basic idea is that all clients connect to and register with the single server. When a client sends a message, the server
The DB2 UDF Diet for Fat Applications
(John Stellrecht) DB2 was a leader in the paradigm shift to relational databases. Before this change occurred, data management was a growing problem in many organizations. Most departments within an organization had a set of master files resulting in multiple instances of some data elements. The cha
XyEnterprise Announces New XML Web Seminar Series
Business and Developer Tracks Show Value of XyEnterprise Enterprise Publishing and XML Content Management Offerings for Management and Technical Resources
Give Your Web Services Consumers the Exact XML They Need to Succeed
(Chris Dix) Web services are first and foremost about messages. No matter what platform you are using, what industry you are building services for, or what levels of complexity are available in your Web services stack, it all comes back to messages. When you are developing services or their corr
The Value of .NET Server Controls in Content Management
(Bill Rogers) Server controls are just one of the many developments in content management solutions. Their power cannot be overstated for developers to be more efficient than ever before.
Limitations to automatic incremental restore
If a table space name has been changed since the backup operation you want to restore from, and you use the new name when you issue a table level restore operation, the required chain of backup images from the database history will not be generated correctly and an error will occur (SQL2571N).
Dr. Tom’s Workshop: Multiple-Child Aggregation
(Tom Moreau) Aggregation, which is commonly used to deliver reports to users, often also delivers poor performance. To help guarantee that you’re delivering the best performance possible, you should explore different versions of the query and pick the best one. This month, look over Tom Moreau’s
MySQL launches program, codeset for enterprise IT
(Vance McCarthy) The team behind the MySQL Open Source database has launched an enterprise program designed to make it simpler and easier for enterprise IT staffs to adopt MySQL. The program, dubbed MySQL Network, provides both optimized MySQL technology, services and “fast track” answers to tec
The Globalization of Language in Oracle – National Language Support
(James Koopmann) In the previous article, we looked at the terminology around globalization, mostly from outside Oracle. This article will take a look at the internal parameters available within Oracle that we will need to become familiar with.