(Runying Mao, Heidi Steen, Lukasz Pawlowski, Donovan Smith, Tudor Trufinescu and Dave Wickert) Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System includes a load-test tool that you can use for performance and stress testing of a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services deployment. The load-test tool runs
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Taking Aim at Performance Problems
If you don’t know where to point your efforts, tuning becomes a hit-or-miss exercise. In this new e-book, DB2 expert Roger E. Sanders explains how performance monitors and snapshots can help you zoom in on problem areas. (R)
Why move to V8 NFM: Reason #2: Because Multi-row FETCH is just so cool
(Willie Favero) Ya, ya, I know: been here, read this, bought the T-shirt. So why am I bringing it up again?
Best Practices for Printer Management in the Oracle E-Business Suite
Setting up and managing printers within the Oracle E-Business Suite is challenging. In this paper, we will discuss tips and tricks to reduce printer setup and management effort as well as how to enable users to print Oracle output to any local or network printer making Oracle Apps printing “plug & p
Introducing OpenLaszlo
(Sreekumar Parameswaran Pillai) This tutorial helps you get started on OpenLaszlo, which is an open source platform for creating zero-install web applications with the user-interface capabilities of desktop client software. OpenLaszlo programs are written in XML and JavaScript and transparently comp
Writing Code Generators in .NET
(Paul Kimmel) Archimedes is quoted as having said, “Give me a lever and a place to stand and I can move the earth.” This statement endures because it introduces a concept so powerful and simple that it can profoundly change lives. A lever and fulcrum can move a much greater mass than can direct forc
Incorporate eXtreme programming techniques in SQL Server development
(Arthur Fuller) The central premise underlying eXtreme Programming (XP) is that two minds are better than one. Two programmers sit side-by-side, one coding and the other critiquing, block-by-block and line-by-line. The person at the keyboard is, for obvious reasons, the driver; the adjacent person i
Steps to implement RAC
(Bill Cullen) I am an Oracle9i OCP. How can I implement a RAC application in Oracle Database in my system? Please give me the total steps to implement RAC. (R)
Resources in XAML
(Keyvan Nayyeri) One of the main reasons to introduce CSS in conjunction with XHTML is the ability to reduce the size of the user interface code and share the same layout across several pages and elements. This could allow for consistency between pages. XAML, which is a markup language to declare
MySQL database monitoring service in the works
(China Martens) Developers at open source player MySQL are hard at work on a project code-named “Merlin” designed to make it easier for customers to manage and maintain their company’s database software, according to a source close to MySQL.