(Antoine Quint) As you have no doubt read in my previous article, SVG Tiny, the SVG sub-profile geared toward mobile phones, offers very interesting features: 2D-vector drawing, raster-image embedding, animation, and definition of reusable assets like fonts and graphics objects. Advance on the stand
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Introduction to Expressions on Workflow
(Allan Mitchell) SQL Server 2005 gives us loads of flexibility in our workflow management to decide how and if the following task should be executed. In this article we are going to introduce you to one of those ways and that is putting an expression into the workflow constraint itself.
Anatomy of a Performance Solution
(Kalen Delaney) I get a lot of nice feedback about my columns and classes, but some people ask me why they should bother learning how SQL Server works. I study internals often just for a deeper understanding of my favorite software and for the experience of learning something new. But many of my rea
HOW TO: Exchange Data via XML Updategrams
(Bernhard Pichler) For each insert or update statement a trigger fires that marks the record as updated or inserted. To allow for this two new columns are to be added to our sourcetable.
Creating Nested Relationships in XML Schemas
To construct a schema to validate nested data: –Create the individual tables to represent the different hierarchies of data that your XML represents. For more information, see Creating Tables in XML Schemas. –Select the table that represents the nested child element and drag and drop it ont
Collections, Cursors, Bulk Binds and FORALL
(Mark Rittman) Once in a while, I read something about Oracle that stops me in my tracks and makes me really think about how I approach my job. Recent examples include starting to work with 9iAS, and slowly becoming aware of how much I’m going to have to get my head around the role Java and middlewa
HTML DB: A New Kind of Web Application Development
(Scott Spendolini) Product manager Scott Spendolini explains why HTML DB is one of Oracle Database 10g’s hidden gems—and how it can save you substantial development time.
Tie in data with Web services and XSL Transformations
(Nicholas Chase) In Part 5 of this tutorial series on analyzing data with XSLT, the MindMap Research Team decides to tie their data in with other services, pulling information from Amazon Web Services in response to information unearthed in the analysis. Web services provide information in XML, but
DB2 for z/OS: DB2 database design
(Fred Whitlark) Many design decisions made early during the development process can have a significant influence on the performance of your DB2 applications and databases. This article provides some general guidelines and recommendations for achieving better DB2 performance in z/OS environments.
sp_who_3 : An Enhanced and Efficient Version of sp_who
(Narayana Vyas Kondreddi) As you probably know, there’s a system stored procedure called sp_who, that provides information about current Microsoft SQL Server processes and users. Output of this stored procedure can be used for troubleshooting performance problems and blocking issues. Microsoft a