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Understanding Triggers

(Philip Greenspun) A trigger is a fragment of code that you tell Oracle to run before or after a table is modified. A trigger has the power to –make sure that a column is filled in with default information –make sure that an audit row is inserted into another table –after finding that

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The Dance of Markup

(John E. Simpson) If you’re a regular visitor to XML.com, you know the extent to which XML sometimes seems to have taken over the world. It’s so simple to use, and has so much cross-platform utility, that it apparently fires the imagination of people who — or so you might think — otherwise have li

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PHP and ASP.NET Go Head-to-Head

(Sean Hull) When it comes to Web development these days, you have a lot of options. Many of these methods involve preprocessing—that is, embedding code into HTML pages with special tags that signal to a preprocessor that they contain code, and that it should do something with it. Much like a CGI, th