Caching Oracle Data for ASP.NET Applications
For building scalable and high-performance Web based applications, ASP.NET provides a feature called data caching. Data caching enables programmatic storing of frequently accessed data objects in memory. This feature can be extended to vastly improve performance for ASP.NET applications that query data stored in an Oracle database. This article describes a strategy for caching [...]
Creating an Ajax Process Using PHP and Oracle
For some time now, Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), has been all the rage in the Web development world. Coming to the forefront with some of Google's features (Suggest, Maps, Gmail, and so on), Ajax performs server requests without the user having to submit a form or click on a link. In other words, the [...]
Build a .NET Application on the Oracle Database with Visual Studio 2005 or 2008
With the popularity of Microsoft's .NET Framework, many developers are hungry for information about the best means of integrating .NET applications with Oracle—not only in terms of basic connectivity, but also in relationship to effective and efficient application development using Visual Studio 2005 or 2008. In this article, I'll explain the basic yet essential processes [...]
Write messaging applications with ODP.NET and Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing
Applications frequently need to pass messages to each other, and they need to do so reliably and often asynchronously. This goal is typically achieved with queuing: producer applications enqueue messages, and consumer applications dequeue messages. A message stays in the queue until a consumer application dequeues it or the message expires.
Tips for Optimizing Rails on Oracle
Using the Ruby on Rails framework it is relatively easy to develop complex systems that are backed by an Oracle database, but this ease doesn't exempt the developer from the need to optimize the data model and the code that manipulates it. This article is for developers working with Ruby on Rails applications on an [...]