(Jeyarani Venkatasamy) Operating systems such as UNIX/Windows provide a facility called a cron program, which is used to execute certain tasks at specified times and/or repeated at regular intervals at the operating system level. This facility is very useful to run commands on a regularly scheduled

(Dan Wahlin) Web services provide a great way to exchange data between ASP.NET AJAX pages and a server using lightweight JSON messages (see my previous articles for examples of integrating Web services into ASP.NET AJAX applications). However, creating a separate .ASMX Web service file and adding th

(Scott Hayes) During a recent Webinar, and reiterated by attendees at this weeks IDUG Conference in Athens Greece, we’ve heard that very few organizations are taking advantage of DB2 9 autonomic tuning as implemented by the Self Tuning Memory Manager, or STMM. WHY? Because they don’t trust it.

(Corra) When dealing with multicolumn indexes the order of the columns in the index definition is very important.

(Scott Mitchell) In the last two installments of this article series – Updating Basics and Customizing the Editing Interface – we saw how to configure the SqlDataSource control to issue UPDATE statements to a database and how to then configure the GridView control to work in tandem with the SqlDataS

(Marco Gralike) A long long time ago (during my Oracle 7 days), I once needed to update base table SYS.PROPS$. This action was needed to change the database NLS characterset of US7ASCII to a characterset that would support GERMAN. Based on a metalink note, updating the SYS.PROPS$ base table, was the

(Dave Campbell) I’d guess that everyone reading this magazine has heard of Silverlight. I’ll also guess that not everyone has jumped at the opportunity to “play” with something that had been in beta. The good news is that Silverlight 1.0 is now released! I’ve spent a lot of time with Silverlight sin

(coderchen) This article demonstrates how to implement a ASP.NET ComboBox control, similar to the Windows ComboBox, from scratch. Majority of programming logics actually residents on the client side since the Javascript does most of the data manipulation. This control was built using the Javascript,

(Radhesh Kumar) With the increasing demand of storing more and more data, the size of databases are growing very fast. RDBMS technologies are evolving around supporting the bigger databases and providing faster access to data. IBM with its DB2 UDB has been a key player on such technological developm

(Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das)) Invoking a web service method from JavaScript code (client side) is the essence of this article. Due to the introduction of AJAX 1.0 extension for ASP.NET 2.0 invoking a web service method from client side can be implemented with less lines of code. We can perform a vari