(Narasimha Ambati) This article demonstrates how to catch an exception raised by Oracle .NET provider. Oracle database can be accessed using OleDb or ODBC providers but these wouldn’t offer maximum performance. Microsoft released a new provider for Oracle.
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IBM To Upgrade Content Management Platform
(Erika Morphy) IBM is adding new technologies to its content management portfolio, with a focus on managing unstructured data with improved XML handling. The additions to DB2 content manager and DB2 document manager will help customers graphically design content flow.
Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL
(Håkon Wium Lie and Michael Day) Longtime readers of XML.com will remember the battles between XSL and CSS that took place in these columns in 1999 and that were memorialized in XSL and CSS: One Year Later. Since then, the two languages have coexisted in relative peace: CSS is now used to style most
Dynamically generate internationalized PDFs in Web applications
(Ning Yan and Ajay Raina) Find out how to internationalize your PDF documents. This article describes a way to dynamically generate PDF documents in Java Web applications using open source technologies, with an emphasis on generating double-byte PDF documents. The approach described fits the popular
Develop Apache Derby applications in Eclipse
(Gilles Roux) Developing an Apache Derby application involves performing many tasks, such as creating and connecting to a database, writing a Java Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) client application and stored procedures, and deploying the resulting pieces to a production environment. Discover how
Analysis About Dimensions
(Ramunas Balukonis) In my previous article (Analysis About Analysis Services) I showed how to make analysis from the log of Analysis Services. As the information about olap queries are modest, we should try to get as much information from the log as we can. For example, we should known how many part
Consolidating SQL Server for Simple Deployments and High Availability
Discover new consolidation techniques that dramatically simplify management of SQL Server and maximize use of existing server and storage assets. Presenter Michael Callahan, CTO of PolyServe, discusses breakthroughs in clustering technology for lower-cost, highly available database deployments. (R
Implicit or Explicit Index Keys
(Kalen Delaney) As I’ve mentioned, I get many article ideas from questions that people ask me directly or that come up on the public newsgroups. When the same question comes from several directions at once, I start thinking that maybe it’s time to write about that question. My idea for this month’s
FIX: DataSet.WriteXML outputs a decimal number as scientific notation and causes a System.FormatException exception in subsequent DataSet.ReadXML calls
When you use an XML document that contains an attribute or an element with a decimal value such as 0.00001, the schema marks that attribute or element as a decimal. If you use the DataSet.ReadXML method to read an XML file, and then you use the DataSet.WriteXML method to write the value back to the
Intercepting the ENTER and ESC keys in custom, drop-down UITypeEditors
(Palo Mraz) When developing Windows Forms controls it is often useful to provide your own, drop-down type editors for some of the control’s properties. Custom type editors provide for richer design-time experience and they might be the deciding factor whether your users like your controls or not.