(Kevin Shockey) Of all of the companies that are playing the open source card, the one I least understand is Oracle. HP, IBM, and even to some degree Sun Microsystems are easy to understand. Promoting open source helps them sell more hardware, like I said easy. Fundamentally, Oracle’s interest i
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(Mark Wagner) This article contains interview questions about asp.net along with the answers.
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(Nick Kew) The Apache 2 filter architecture serves to transform Apache from a mere web server into a powerful application platform. Applications that previously required a dedicated backend, typically Java-based, can now easily be implemented within the web server itself, with very substantial impro
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(Raphael Cohen) In this article, we will first make a simple data-aware object. Then we will use this object to display data in an ASP .Net page, and finally we will use this same object in a standard Windows Application.
Installing Oracle10gAS Release 2 – (Windows)
(Jeff Hunter) This article provides the basic steps and instructions for installing Oracle10gAS on the Microsoft Windows operating environment. Please keep in mind that this article should not be considered a substitution for completing reading and understanding the official installation guide and r
MySQL Character Set Support
This chapter discusses the following topics: –What are character sets and collations? –The multiple-level default system –New syntax in MySQL 4.1 –Affected functions and operations –Unicode support –The meaning of each individual character set and collation
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(Eric McMullen) In all the excitement about SQL Server 2005 (formerly codenamed Yukon), most people tend to focus on the .NET integration. But the native support for XML might turn out to have even more of an impact on the everyday working lives of DBAs. Native XML makes SQL Server an ideal knowledg