(Marc Clifton) In the Nov. 29th newsletter, Chris Maunder mentioned that any XAML and Avalon articles would be welcomed. Based on a CP survey from several months ago, it would seem that at least half of CPians have never heard of XAML or don’t know what it is. I thought it might be useful to put t
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All the Little Features
(Trudy Pelzer and Jim Winstead) The new HELP statement allows you to get help on various topics from the server. You can use HELP contents to get a list of available topics.
IBM, epost join for mail delivery
epost, the service that delivers the mail on-line for Canada Post, has announced that it has chosen to upgrade its electronic document delivery network to run on IBM’s DB2 database software and WebSphere MQ integration software, both on a Linux platform.
Checking Latency on SQL Server 2000
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) Latency in a replication environment is the time it takes for a transaction to be transmitted from a publisher to the distributor and from the distributor to a subscriber. In this article, I am going to discuss how to find and monitor the latency frequency in a transact
A Brief Introduction to NAnt
(Eric Desch) NAnt is a free .NET build tool based on Ant (a build tool for Java). NAnt, like Ant, is similar to Make in that it is used to generate output from your source files. But where Ant is Java-centric, NAnt is .NET-centric. NAnt has built-in support for compiling C#, VB.NET, and J# files and
5 Tips for Tapping XML’s Integration Power
(Vance McCarthy) A growing number of devs are finding benefits in learning hands-on XML skills. For example, devs at Quadrix Solutions have found that the more devs know about XML, they have in their hands the best "applications glue" they’ve ever worked with. Take a look a the 5 ways Quadrix engine
Enjoy the Openness of MySQL
(Roy Cheung) One of the very common questions appeared on various developer forums is that of comparing the pros and cons of MySQL and MS SQL. While comparisons have been made by many volunteers, mostly technical issues, I personally find that they are difficult to compare especially regarding their
Oracle Database 10g: Part 2
(Kelli Wiseth) These days, no system can afford downtime. Fortunately, many of the new automated management features in Oracle Database 10g are designed to anticipate and prevent downtime. For example, the optimizer now automatically gathers its own statistics and intelligently refreshes them as nee
Build a Delimited List And Query Syscomments, Tricks of the Trade
(Andy Warren) What’s the easiest way to return a delimited list? Maybe you want to return a list of email addresses, comma delimited so you can just send out. Or you want to use an output parameter for the return values instead of a resultset (not always a good idea). Think on that for a minute. You
Counting Queries: PostgreSQL Analysis
(Tom Copeland) There are a number of ways to get your database-backed Web application to run faster on the same hardware–allowing you to postpone upgrades for at least a little while, thus cutting costs. One way involves examining how your applications are interacting with the database. The author