(Deborah Kurata) If you have classes in your application, you’ve got it made. If you don’t have classes, no matter what else you have, it won’t make up for it. Classes are central to development in .NET.
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IBM aims for midmarket with BI appliance server
(James Niccolai) IBM hopes to bring business intelligence (BI) to a wider audience of midmarket customers with a new software stack developed in partnership with Business Objects, industry sources said.
INFO: Interoperability of the .NET SignedXml Class with IBM XML Security Suite
The .NET SignedXml class provides a wrapper around the core XML signature object to make it easier to create and verify XML signatures. Applications that use SignedXml and that interoperate with the Java classes in IBM’s XML Security Suite, must interoperate correctly.
Delivering Productivity with Choice
(Rich Schwerin) One of the more extensive examples of Oracle’s commitment to open source involves Eclipse, an open source community whose projects focus on providing a vendor-neutral open development platform and application framework.
Understanding the Falcon Transaction Storage Engine – Part 3
(Robin Schumacher) In Part 1 of this article series, we looked at how the Falcon transactional storage engine was architected and how it compared to some of the other MySQL storage engines. Part 2 covered how Falcon handles transaction management and concurrency. In this final article in the series,
DB2 9 Fundamentals exam 730 prep, Part 7: Introducing XQuery
(C. M. Saracco) DB2 9 features support for XQuery, an industry-standard language designed expressly for querying XML data. With XQuery and DB2 9 you can retrieve entire XML documents or XML fragments stored in XML columns. You can also specify XML-based filters for queries, transform XML output, and
You cannot connect to a local instance of SQL Server on a Windows XP-based computer or on a Windows 2000-based computer when you use ‘localhost’ in the pipe name
On a Microsoft Windows XP-based computer or on a Microsoft Windows 2000-based computer, you use the Named Pipes protocol to connect to a local instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or Microsoft SQL Server 2000. When you use “localhost” in the pipe name, you cannot connect to the instance of SQL Serv
SchemaBinding option in views
(Abey George Peter) Views can be thought of as a virtual table or stored query. The results of view are not stored in database (except for indexed views). The data accessed through a view is actually constructed using standard T-SQL select command and can come from one to many different base tables
Finding the highest value in several SQL Server columns
(Arthur Fuller) You have a SQL Server table with n columns containing integers, floats, money, or dates, and it’s your task to return the maximum value contained on a row from these columns. You may even be required to do this for multiple rows at once, returning a record set.
Integrating .NET Code and SQL Server Reporting Services
(Rod Paddock) SQL Server Reporting Services versions 2000 and 2005 (SSRS) has many powerful features. SSRS has a well-designed data access engine, a great set of layout tools, and an excellent expression system for creating complex formulas. While the expression system is quite powerful it is not su