(Tim Stall) Many large Web applications in existence make use of User Controls, which are a unit of user interface reuse in ASP.NET. Common UI pieces – such as menus, page headers or footers, and so on – can be easily encapsulated into a User Control for reuse on numerous other pages. In their s
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Check TEMP Usage
(Jony Safi) This query lists information needed by a DBA to trace the use of the TEMP tablespace.
Introducing SQL Server Reporting Services
(Wei-Meng Lee) Microsoft has finally added reporting capabilities to SQL Server 2000. With the rollout of SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services, you can now generate reports from your database without the need to use third-party reporting tools. In this article, I will walk you through the basics o
Mainframe Integration Tips for Java, .NET
(Jack Vaughn) Web services could give new life to old-fashioned “screen scraping” styles of client-to-mainframe integration, according to an enterprise apps consultant speaking at last week’s SD 2004 Best Practices event.
SQL Server 2005 Snapshot Isolation
(Ravi Okade) SQL Server 2005 implements a new feature called Snapshot Isolation or Row Versioning. If implemented on a suitable database, it has the potential to eliminate data contention in your database. It will reduce deadlocks, lock contentions and session waits if appropriately implemented.
DB2 ICE — Scaling Data with Linux Clusters
(Rav Ahuja) Putting together a database solution for managing large volumes of data is a daunting task. Many organizations struggle with solving the related technology integration challenges within IT budget constraints.
Faster Backup, Faster Recovery
(Arup Nanda) John, the lead DBA at Acme Bank, is at the IT center of attention in a high-level company acquisition. Recently Acme Bank acquired another bank, taking over its entire technology infrastructure. One special area of interest is the other bank’s data warehouse database, which has been
Marine Corps to march with E-Business Suite
(Robert Westervelt) The U.S. Marine Corps is giving its commanders the ability to more efficiently oversee deliveries of food, ammunition and other supplies to troops deployed abroad and stationed at home. The military branch is selecting Oracle Corp.’s E-Business Suite for its combat and logisti
XML Data Type Support in ADO.NET 2.0: Handling XML from SQL Server 2005
(Bob Beauchemin) See how improvements to XML support in Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 work together to make handling XML data in your applications easier.
DB2 Information Integrator access to Sybase stored procedures that have result sets
(Micks Purnell) DB2 Information Integrator enables you to access data in many parts of your enterprise, stored in different data types, different databases and in differing formats. If you need to access Sybase stored procedures from DB2 Information Integrator, here’s help. Micks Purnell tells y