Featured Article(s) Adding custom context menu items to out of the box SharePoint lists and libraries Most of the functionality available for users to work with when it comes to SharePoint lists and document library items comes in item context menu. If you’d like to add you own functionality to handle list and document library items you might want to […]

Featured Article(s) Checklist for Configuring Oracle 10g Real Application Clusters on IBM AIX with SAN Storage Part 1 Checklist for Configuring Oracle 10g Real Application Clusters on IBM AIX with SAN Storage Part1 Acquisition of Open Source as a Tactic Ben writes with these thoughts: "It’s possible the companies could use the model of tiered support to generate revenue. For […]

Featured Article(s) PowerShell Script to Query and Add AD Users to SharePoint List In one of the SharePoint projects I worked on, one of the requirements was to insert OU-specific users and to insert these users as new records to a SharePoint out-of-the-box Contact List. (OU stands for Organization Unit) Because this involved querying a little bit of AD (Active […]

Featured Article(s) Tips for using Very Large Databases in SQL Server 2005 (Part 1) In this article, you can find some helpful Very Large Databases (VLDB) performance tuning and optimization tips. Open Source – the New Battleground for Market share It seems that the big players have settled on their free database offerings and how are moving to go even […]

Featured Article(s) XML Namespaces XML Namespaces are wrappings that ensure that there are no duplications of names in a project resulting in conflicts. Dr.Vanitha Vaidialingam examines the concept of namespace and how it can be used to an advantage in this article. Getting Help with Your SQL Server Questions I thought I would point out some of the great resources […]

Featured Article(s) Four practices on improving you custom web and SharePoint application security Now that SharePoint has become a platform for building variety of solutions in many organizations, more of often than not we need to make customizations and add various custom features. There are multiple ways to implement our customizations and depending on the approach selected we have to […]

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Featured Article(s) SQLXML : How To Save XML Query Results to a File Using BCP Creating XML from within SQL Server 2005/2008 has been greatly simplified with the introduction of the XML data type, FOR PATH mode, and the support for several XML XPath functions. However exporting these XML documents to an external file can still remain a challenge. This […]

Featured Article(s) Troubleshooting SQL Server 2005 Locking (Part 2) In this article, Alexander Chigrik explains some problems that you can have with SQL Server 2005 locking. He also tells how you can resolve these problems. PowerShell – Learning and Understanding It There isn’t any doubt that PowerShell is one of those technologies that can help out in your shop. You […]

Featured Article(s) How to Use the SharePoint PeopleEditor Control: Loading Data This post was really planned as a Part 2 to the first post I made about saving data from the PeopleEditor control. My aim for this entry is to tackle the reverse scenario: reading data from a field of type Person or Group and loading it into a PeopleEditor […]