(Craig S. Mullins) DB2 9 for z/OS offers a plethora of new features, but sometimes what seems like one of the more mundane new features can actually be quite beneficial. Such is the case with data types. DB2 9 for z/OS offers five new data types, so let’s examine each of them in a little detail.

(Jim Mischel) One of the less publicized features of the .NET garbage collector is that there are actually three flavors of garbage collection available. From a conceptual standpoint, all three work in much the same way. But the details of their implementations are quite different, and as such have

(Steven Barden) The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how to develop a SharePoint 2007 Web Part from scratch that dynamically loads users’ web user controls, rather than using the HTML render method. This method allows the developer to use the full power of Visual Studio 2005 in the rapid de

(Alan Cameron Wills, Steve Cook, Gareth Jones and Stuart Kent) This book describes the Microsoft Domain-Specific Language Tools (the DSL Tools). The DSL Tools are part of the Visual Studio SDK, and may be downloaded from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/DSLTools/. The DSL Tools extend Microsoft Vis

(Mark Strawmyer) Welcome to this installment of the .NET Nuts & Bolts column. The focus of this article will be on highlighting the local type inference feature that has been added to C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9.0 languages. You’ll touch on what it is, the syntax behind it, and why it is relevant

(Vivek Sharma) A real life example of the impact of Clustering Factor and the way Cost Based Optimizer uses this value to calculate the cost of a query.

(Oleg Tkachenko) I noticed Robert Robbins was writing about XSS attacks using XSLT: It is possible to extend the power of XSLT using JavaScript embedded into the XSL file. Therefore any web application that allows the user to upload their own XSL file will be vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting at

(Steven Feuerstein and Bill Pribyl) In this fourth part of a nine-part series on managing PL/SQL code, you will learn about the compile-time warnings that were introduced in Oracle Database 10g Release 1.

(Steven Feuerstein and Bill Pribyl) In this third part of a nine-part series on managing PL/SQL code, you’ll learn how to compile PL/SQL source code, how to use the optimizing compiler, and more.

In my years of software development, I’ve found that there are a few topics that seem to elude many programmers. Some of the topics are pretty complex (compiler design comes to mind); others are just plain foreign compared to traditional programming (Regular Expressions comes to mind). Others just s