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Build a Low Overhead Test Bed for Your JDBC Code

here’s a good chance that your enterprise applications interact with a database. Testing your application code against a database is important in making sure that your application works as expected.

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The Value of Data Archiving

Table(s) holding every day transaction data can grow huge in size over period of time. This not only slows down applications, it also causes database contention leading to maintainence nightmare.A

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Folder Sharing in Windows

Have you ever needed to share many folders simultaneously? Windows provides an executable to do just that. It’s called the “Share Creation Wizard.” Call this wizard by typing SHRPUBW in

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Activate Your Word Documents with VSTO

he word processor was invented to simplify the preparation of words to be printed on paper. It offered font management, layout management, and the ability to type words onto a

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Batch Processing in Hibernate

Suppose you need to insert 200,000 records into a database in Hibernate. You’ll need to adjust the following settings: //set the JDBC batch size (it is fine somewhere between 20-50)hibernate.jdbc.batch_size

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Gain Control of your .NET Logging Using log4net

have always considered logging a critical function of any production application; however, it’s often overlooked. Logging is often added to the application only after the functionality is already defined and

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Mono IDEs: Going Beyond the Command Line

ike the freely downloadable Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SDK, the free open source Mono platform provides a number of command line utilities used to compile .NET source code and manipulate

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Cooperative Multithreading in BREW with IThread

y last article mentioned the BREW IThread as a possible solution to the challenges of dealing with blocking code on BREW. Whether you’re porting existing code to BREW or writing

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Determine Whether a Table Has an Identity Column

This code is for MSSQL Server, but applicable for MS SSQL Server 7 or above. Check in T-SQL: SELECT OBJECTPROPERTY(object_id(‘TableToBeChecked’), ‘TableHasIdentity’) SQL Server returns 1 if the table has an

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Platform-independent New Line Characters

Because you need to use the new line character in most outputs?and because the line-terminating characters differ on different systems?you need to be able to identify what kind of system

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Store and Retrieve XML from Databases with XSU

ou can think of an XML document as a relational table where the various elements represent columns in a database table. Therefore, by mapping the various elements to a table,

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Changing Column Names in Oracle

Oracle does not have a mechanism by which you directly change column names. But this workaround is quick and efficient. Consider TableA: COLUMN_1 NUMBERCOLUMN_2 VARCHAR2(500)COLUMN_3 DATE You want to change

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Using XMLSchema DOM and SAX in JAXP 1.2

To take advantage of the power of XMLSchema in a SAX or DOM application, you simply have to set two properties. In JAXP 1.3, use the javax.xml.validation package. The two

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Add a Fresh Set of Records to a Dataset

When you execute a new query and populate an existing dataset, the newly retrieved records are appended to the existing records in the dataset. If you wish to remove the

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Quick Ways to Determine a Computer’s Name

Here are three quick ways to determine a computer’s name: Type Hostname in the Command Prompt, then press the Enter key. Press the Windows and Pause keys to bring up

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Build a Custom Research Pane for Excel with VSTO

he previous article in this series discussed how to use the Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) platform to build a custom alerting application that used Outlook as the alerting

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Video on a Budget: Two Ways to Deliver Flash

treaming video is a very fashionable buzz phrase these days thanks to the pervasiveness of Internet video (which is, in turn, thanks, largely, to Flash). However, it’s also a widely

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Getting Started with Sun Java System RFID

un Java System RFID Software is an RFID infrastructure framework that integrates data and RFID-enabled devices into enterprise application systems ranging from small projects to large deployments. Java System RFID