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Database Dev Zone
(09/25/09)
Discover how to call stored procedures and functions in MySQL from PHP using three database extensions: MySQL, MySQLi, and PDO.
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(09/18/09)
A corrupt table in MS Access means lost time and data. It can lead to a loss of revenue or even employment. Learn how you might be able to recover most of the data when the worst happens.
(08/11/09)
The key to working with null values properly is to accommodate them consistently. Learn a few tricks that will help you do just that.
(08/05/09)
Routine maintenance can keep index fragmentation to a minimum—with some help from an index-defragmenting script.
(07/15/09)
You can't let a little thing like not knowing a database's structure keep you from your work. Without identifying tables and columns, you can still find specific values and columns.
Even though chip clock speed has stopped its year-by-year improvement, today's multicore chips can provide dramatic improvements in application performance—but you have to alter your code to take advantage of their power. Find out what you can do to gain multicore performance.
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(07/07/09)
The Advantage Data Provider for .NET provides a feature-rich mechanism for Delphi developers using the Advantage Database Server (ADS) to build ASP.NET web applications and web services.
(06/19/09)
From monitoring e-mail messages to distributing reports for users, SQL Server's database mail proves quite useful. Learn how to use it in SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005/2008.
(06/09/09)
Implement a CRUD automation framework that handles insert and simple queries, an easy way to talk to a database without needing to write any database-access code.
(06/04/09)
If you're a .NET newbie coming from Access or SQL Server, let .NET do the hard work of creating a connection to foreign data. Then customize the resulting control to add functionality.
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Microsoft Previews IE 9
Software giant makes ambitious pitch to developer community with platform preview of Internet Explorer 9, a browser it promises will enable a 'whole new class of applications.'
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Digg Dumps MySQL for Cassandra
The social networking and voting site is migrating from the MySQL database to Cassandra, an open source non-relational database.
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Google Unveils Apps Marketplace
Search giant debuts online shop for apps, expanding beyond its own App Engine to offer developers working in other frameworks an integration into the marketplace.
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Apache Project CouchDB Taking to the Cloud
Thanks to some commercial support from Cloudant, open source NoSQL database project CouchDB is getting ready to take to the cloud, offering an "organic" alternative to conventional relational databases.
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Twitter Surpasses 70,000 Apps
Biz Stone, co-founder of the popular microblogging service, notes the growth of the company and the launch of its first developer event.
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Oracle Says OpenSolaris Will Stay Open Source
Seeking to ease concerns about the future of the OpenSolaris project following the acquisition of Sun, Oracle is assuring the community that it will keep OpenSolaris available as open source, and invest heavily in its development.
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You can impart knowledge, but not experience; all experts are self-taught.
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Past Blog Posts:
You Cant Teach Expertise
Over the past several weeks, I've had the obligatory parental experience of teaching a teenager to drive. This can be a nerve-wracking process as the new driver learns the mechanics of controlling the car: steering, using the pedals, shifting gears,...
What If Oracle OpenWorld Did Swallow JavaOne?
Does Oracle's acquisition of Sun mean a merger of their flagship conferences, Oracle OpenWorld and Sun's JavaOne, into a single co-located show? For Java developers, feeling like second-class citizens would be an unavoidable consequence.
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