Technology Questions

The basic difference between ASP and ASP.NET is that ASP is interpreted; whereas, ASP.NET is compiled. This implies that since ASP uses VBScript; therefore, when an ASP page is executed, it is interpreted. On the other hand, ASP.NET uses .NET languages, such as C# and VB.NET, which are compiled to Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL).

The Active Directory database is stored on domain controllers and is accessible by network applications. All domains can be domain controllers and keep a copy of the Active Directory database in C:\windows\Ntds\Ntds.dit

If you mark an instance variable as transient, you're telling the JVM to skip (ignore) this variable when you attempt to serialize the object containing it.

Supply the DD cards just as you would for files referred to in the main program.

Bitmap indexes make use of bit arrays (bitmaps) to answer queries by performing bitwise logical operations.

Bitmap indexes are useful in the data warehousing applications.

Bitmap indexes have a significant space and performance advantage over other structures for such data.

Tables that have less number of insert or update operations can be good candidates.

The advantages of Bitmap indexes are:

   - They have a highly compressed structure, making them fast to read.

   - Their structure makes it possible for the system to combine multiple indexes together so that they can      access the underlying table faster.

The Disadvantage of Bitmap indexes is:

  - The overhead on maintaining them is enormous. 

Trigger allows us to execute a batch of SQL code when an insert, update or delete command is executed against a specific table.

Triggers are special types of stored procedures that are defined to execute automatically in place of or after data modifications. They can be executed automatically on the insert, delete and update operation.

TDM is a digital process that can be applied when the data rate capacity of the transmission  medium is greater than the data rate required by the sending and receiving devices.

MIME - Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions. 

MIME types represents a standard way of classifying file types over Internet. 

Web servers and browsers have a list of MIME types, which facilitates files transfer of the same type in the same way, irrespective of operating system they are working in.

A MIME type has two parts: a type and a subtype. They are separated by a slash (/). 

MIME type for Microsoft Word files is application and the subtype is msword, i.e. application/msword.