(Drew McLellan) One of the classic drawbacks to building a web application interface is that once a page has been downloaded to the client, the connection to the server is severed. Any attempt at a dynamic interface involves a full roundtrip of the whole page back to the server for a rebuild–a proc
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Collection Controls with Rich Design Time Support – Introduction
(Tim Dawson) Actually it’s a term I just made up, but when I say it I am referring to those user interface controls that present themselves as lists. The more obvious examples of these are listboxes, listviews and treeviews. Less obvious are things like toolbars. They all maintain a collection of ob
Customer knowledge through information quality
Customer knowledge is critical to gaining and retaining customers. This paper discusses why information quality is the prerequisite to customer knowledge and how Oracle Customer Data Hub delivers the best solution for integrating your customer-oriented functions and systems. (R)
Comparing MySQL performance
(Tony Bourke) With the introduction of the 2.6 Linux kernel, FreeBSD-5-STABLE, Solaris 10, and now NetBSD 2.0, you might be wondering which of them offers superior database performance. In my previous article, I discussed the tools I chose to test these venerable operating systems and the methodolog
dBlue – An Advanced Enterprise Information Search and Delivery System
(Yurdaer Doganata) One of the biggest complaints we hear about many company Web sites, from customers and employees alike, is that it’s too hard to find what you need. At IBM, with 2.5 million Internet pages and more technical content than any single entity, including the Pentagon, that’s no sur
Grid on the job
(Julie Bort) When network executives think of grid computing, they often envision the supercomputer-strength computational resources needed for academic or government research projects. That’s certainly how IT leaders at human-resources outsourcing and consulting firm Hewitt Associates once saw grid
Most give Oracle good marks (following PeopleSoft acquisition)
(Howard Solomon) PeopleSoft resellers and industry analysts have generally given Oracle Corp. good grades following last month’s long-awaited detailing of its product roadmap and strategy
OASIS Creates TC to Define Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Reference Model
A new SOA-RM TC (Service Oriented Architecture Reference Model Technical Committee) has been created by OASIS members. The goal of the TC is to “establish a Reference Model to encourage the continued growth of specific and different SOA implementations whilst preserving a common layer that can be sh
Deadlock Detection using Profiler in SQL Server 2005
(Vinod Kumar) The amount of features introduced in SQL Server 2005 are numerous. I think we have taken a tour of some T-SQL enhancements, DTS a.k.a. SSIS, XML and others before. But in this article we will take a look at another toolset that is available in SQL Server 2000 world but has been enhance
Performance Tuning Requirements for Database Applications
(Craig Mullins) WA database application requires constant interaction between various disparate computing resources to operate efficiently and according to specifications. Realistically, the tuning of a database application can be broken down into three components: system tuning, database tuning, an