(Malcolm Chisholm) Data modeling has been with us for several decades now and has been wildly successful. It has provided IT professionals with a set of tools, techniques and methodologies that have not only allowed us to implement databases, but which have also given us a way to communicate and dis

(Sateesh Kumar) Everyone knows, there will be lot of processes running in a system. We can see process list in Task Manager. But it gives limited information. If we want to integrate that Process list in your application, there is no solution for that. But, we can create our own Task Manager to disp

(Scott Lysle) This article describes an approach to writing to a custom error log and to writing events into the system event log.

(Craig S. Mullins) Database performance is one of those perennial topics that people just can’t seem to get enough of. I guess this is so because the performance of database applications is one of the bigger issues that end users complain about. And DBAs can be heroes if they can resolve performance

(Tony Patton) This year, many new tools and products were released that greatly simplify developers’ lives. Before we dive into a new year with new products and projects, I want to take a moment to reflect on this year by highlighting the major platform and product releases. Then, I will look ahead

(Mike Gunderloy) It’s been another fun year in software. As always, there have been thousands of programs released, free and otherwise, to compete for space on your computer. Nobody has time to try them all, of course, but here are some of the ones that have caught my eye this year and that have had

(John Charles) Web services standardization started with the submission of the SOAP 1.1 specification to the W3C. Later, SOAP with Attachments, and WSDL were submitted to W3C. The adoption and use of the Web services specifications (SOAP and WSDL) have grown for the addition of extended specificatio

(Gautam Shah) Message Queuing (MQ) has long been a foundation for applications that require asynchronous and disconnected communications. Implementations of Message Queuing such as Microsoft’s MSMQ, IBM’s WebSphere MQ, TIBCO’s Rendezvous, and Progress Sonic’s SonicMQ are all mature, highly reliable,

(Mike McIntyre) Fields of data in log text files is often tab delimited. To access the fields of data in a tab delimited log file, or any tab delimited text file for that matter, the file must be parsed. Parsing a tab delimited text file is the process of transforming input text into a data structur

(Sanjay Kumar) The ASP.Net relies on Single Form Interface (SFI) instead of Multi Form Interface (MFI), because SFI is a key element for the implementation of the ASP.NET state maintenance feature. Thus if you host two or more server side form then you will get run-time error ‘A page can have only o