(Paul Kimmel) I have met very few developers or development teams who prefer ADO.NET objects to custom objects. Similarly, many are writing their own custom data access layers. This should convey a loud and clear message to Microsoft and other software vendors: ADO.NET is great, but developers prefe
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Building a Multi-table Report with SQL 2005 Reporting Services
(Jayaram Krishnaswamy) If you want to learn how to generate a multi-table report using Microsoft’s SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), you’ve come to the right place. This article will use data from two of the tables in the Northwind database on the SQL 2005 server for demonstration purposes.
32-bit vs. the 64-bit SQL Server performance surge
(Serdar Yegulalp) The 64-bit platform in SQL Server is setting a new computing standard. Will you make the leap from 32-bit to 64-bit? You’re certainly familiar with 32-bit, but new advantages await with the increased memory of the 64-bit SQL Server edition. Hardware upgrades are now equipped with 6
Ruby on Rails with Oracle FAQs
(Casimir Saternos) Many platforms are available for Web development including Microsoft’s .NET, Java 2 Enterprise Edition, and PHP. Why, then, is there so much interest in a new platform using a relatively unfamiliar language?
XForms tip: Use XForms to upload a file to Perl
(Nicholas Chase) Uploading files is a fairly common task using HTML forms, but how do you do it in XForms, where the data gets stored as part of an XML document? This tip explains how to create an XForms form that enables the user to upload a file, and it explains how to create a Perl script that sa
Data partitioning in SQL Server 2005 – Part IV
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) In Part III of this article series, we have seen how to partition an existing table into four parts based on a range of unique numbers. Part IV of this series illustrates partitioning based on date. In this article we are going to partition the existing data into four diffe
Using ADO.NET concurrent model in Oracle database
(Michael Milonov) The most popular instrument to access database data for .NET applications is ADO.NET. This set of components contains three main classes those are used to manipulate and store data: DataReader, DataSet and DataAdapter. DataReader is only able to read data and can’t work as data sou
DB2 replaces MySQL to save client money
(Chris Eaton) Here is an interesting success story of a business partner that replaced MySQL with DB2 9 Express-C and saved a lot of money doing it.
Denmark builds XML-based Web services commerce network
(Michael Meehan) A return to the heady notion of business-to-business integration was featured during a session yesterday at the XML 2006 conference. The Danish government plans on instituting a massive service-oriented e-commerce network by late 2007 that will generate Universal Business Language (
What was once not cool has now been improved: Part 4 of the KEEPDYNAMIC story
(Willie Favero) Sometimes you get KEEPDYNAIMC YES whether you want it or not.