When you run a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) program that calls an XML Web service method, you may receive the following error message: Run-time error ‘-2147221504 (80040000)’: Client:Unspecified client error.
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PHP 5, Oracle, and the Future
(Andi Gutmans) PHP 5 (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor Version 5) was officially released on July 13, 2004. Not surprising, the release was widely covered by the media due to the leadership role PHP plays in the Web application market. It is true that technologies such as .NET and J2EE have had more
Table Compare
(Subhan P. Munshi) This sp can compare two tables with the same structure. (script)
MySQL Database Handling In PHP
(John L.) Most interactive websites nowadays require data to be presented dynamically and interactively based on input from the user. For example, a customer may need to log into a retail website to check his purchasing history. In this instance, the website would have stored two types of data i
PHP and XML: Parsing RSS 1.0
(Kevin Yank) XML is springing up all over the Internet as a means to create standard data formats for the exchange of information between systems, irrelevant of their platform or technology. As you may already know, XML allows you to define your own custom markup languages similar to HTML and suited
Simplify coding and maintenance with class libraries
(Tony Patton) I was recently called onto a project to add features to existing applications. To me, this is one of the most challenging aspects of being a developer because the existing application strips away much of your control. My project encompasses three applications that are similar in ma
ETL solutions for IBM DB2 Universal Database
(Dan A. Simchuk) This article focuses on Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL) of data for IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) (implementations for UNIX, Linux, and Windows) and describes the major options, technologies, and products available from IBM and from other vendors. The author giv
Achieving the Five Nines of Database Availability
(Craig Mullins) How much availability is enough? In this Internet age, the push usually is to provide never-ending uptime — 365 days a year and 24 hours a day. At 60 minutes an hour, that means 525,600 minutes of uptime a year. While 100 percent availability is a laudable goal, it is unreasonable t
Creating a PHP-Based Content Management System, Part 3
(Peter Zeidman) In this series we’ve been working through the construction of a Content Management System, for use with an Intranet or Web site. The foundation has been laid in the form of a PHP class for accessing the database (‘DbConnector’), and to kick off this month we’ll set up the database it
Beginning SQL Server – Logins and Users
(Steve Jones) This is the third part in the Beginners series and will start the look at security. This is a basic introduction to people in how they connect to SQL Server and what issues they might have. It’s a lot of common items that DBAs and developers take for granted, but which administrators m