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(Bill Evjen) In ASP.NET 1.0/1.1, you could upload files using the HTML FileUpload server control. This control put an element on your Web page to enable the end user to upload files to the server. To use the file, however, you had to make a couple of modifications to the page. Fo

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(Melonfire) It’s no secret that PHP and MySQL go well together. Both PHP and MySQL are open-source projects, are widely used in the developer community, and play well together because of PHP’s built-in MySQL support. While MySQL has been getting the lion’s share of attention, PostgreSQL also deserve

(Ged Mead) As I had some feedback on how the images are accessed in my blog item on UniformGrids, I thought I would just very quickly explain what I did.

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(Lee Richardson) Custom SharePoint lists are like tables in a traditional database; in some ways they’re even better. But as organizations adopt this new data store, they introduce additional complexities in integrating new list-based solutions with existing database applications. This article shows

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(Edgar Sanchez and Joseph W. Baric, Jr.) Tune IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) and its different subsystems for optimum performance. After a brief overview, follow along with examples on how to look at the database server and its subsystems. The fourth in a series of eight tutorials, use this tutor