Technology Questions

Customer Information Control System (CICS) is an online transaction processing monitor from IBM that acts as an interface between the operating system and application programs to provide rapid high-volume online transaction processing.

Any code written in any .NET complaint languages when compiled, converts into MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language) code in form of an assembly through CLS, CTS. IL is the language that CLR can understand. On execution, this IL is converted into binary code by CLR’s just in time compiler (JIT) and these assemblies or DLL are loaded into the memory.

GROUP BY partitions the selected rows on the distinct values of the column on which you group by. HAVING selects GROUPs which match the criteria specified

A sequence is a database object that is used to generate sequential number.

CREATE SEQUENCE seqname [increment] [minimum value][maximum value][start][cache][cycle]               Nextval and currval lets us get the next value and current value from the sequence.

- A web page with large number of images takes a longer time to load. This is because each image separately sends out a http request.

- The concept of CSS sprite helps in reducing this loading time for a web page by combining various small images into one image. This reduces the numbers of http request and hence the loading time.

State is quite an innovative concept in Web development because it eliminates the drawback of losing state data due to reloading of a Web page. By using states in a Web application, you can preserve the state of the application either at the server or client end. The state of a Web application helps you to store the runtime changes that have been made to the Web application. For example, as already described earlier, a change in the data source of the Web application might be initiated by a user when he/she selects and saves some products in the shopping cart.

If you are not using states, these changes are discarded and are not saved. You may think that the whole concept of storing states is optional. However, under certain circumstances, using states with applications is imperative. For example, it is necessary to store states for Web applications, such as an e-commerce shopping site or an Intranet site of a company, to keep track of the requests of the users for the items they have selected on the shopping site or the days requested for vacation on the Intranet site.

.NET Framework is a complete environment that allows developers to develop, run, and deploy the following applications:

 => Console applications
 => Windows Forms applications
 => Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications
 => Web applications (ASP.NET applications)
 => Web services
 => Windows services
 => Service-oriented applications using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
 => Workflow-enabled applications using Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)