(Kris Hadlock) ASP.NET AJAX, currently code-named “Atlas,” is a free framework from Microsoft that allows developers to create AJAX-enabled ASP.NET sites rapidly. What would normally be code-intensive is now as simple as implementing a framework and making your AJAX requests, without having to worry

(Dawn Kawamoto) After operating for more than a year in partial stealth-mode, former PeopleSoft CEO Dave Duffield launched his newest company’s first product: an on-demand enterprise resource planning software suite.

(Bob Watkins) Data warehouses are often populated by multiple source systems, each running their own applications. It can be tricky to determine which rows were recently updated, so that feeds to the data warehouse only include the new data. This is especially a problem with legacy applications that

(Jim Czuprynski) Oracle 10g extends the original fine-grained auditing (FGA) features that Oracle 9iR2 introduced, including expanded capacity to audit for specific events based on statements issued, the columns that a SQL statement has accessed, and even the subset of data that the statement is aff

(Lim Mei Ying) Once we have our search input control built, we need a page that will execute the search against the SPS Query Service Web Service and display the results. In addition, like all other search result pages, we need to add advanced searching options such as limiting our search to the Tro

Testing, testing, testing. IT pros have been checking out the new MySQL 5.0 open source database since its recent release its commercial parent, MySQL AB. Some of those IT pros put our resident MySQL expert, Mike Hillyer, to the test, too. In this tip, he answers users’ questions about the ins and o

(Stefan Schackow) One potential issue that folks raise about SqlMembershipProvider is that the current lockout behavior can lead to a denial of service (DoS) attack. Theoretically, a malicious user could spam a login page with likely user accounts to force account lockouts for a large number of webs

(Jay Lyman) MySQL CEO Marten Mickos contends that MySQL is addressing key corporate customer needs — reliability, uptime, scalability and ease of deployment — but Gartner Principal Analyst Colleen Graham says it is still a long way from matching the features and functionality of enterprise databas

(Bill Cullen) We have a customer with a two-node RAC environment. Currently the stack of CRS, ASM and DB (not shared) are all at 10.1.0.3. We are using Data Guard also. They have five separate RAC databases in this environment. This setup appears to become unresponsive (e.g., srvctl status stops res

It’s crucial to understand the changes to the compilation process from ASP.NET 1.x to ASP.NET 2.0 so you can debug your Web applications effectively. This article shows you how compilation works now and what has changed from ASP.NET 1.x.