(Robert D. Kugel) Master data management (MDM) and eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) are two key technologies that promise to address important information management issues. Ventana Research believes both will enable companies to reduce the cost, time and effort needed to collect, analy
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How to display a totals line in the GridView footer
(fstrahberger) This article explains how to display a totals line in the GridView footer. First bind a XML-file to the GridView.
The Two Biggest DB2 Performance Things
(Craig Mullins) DB2 performance is one of those perennial topics that people just can’t seem to get enough of. I guess that is because the performance of applications is one of the bigger issues that end users complain about. And DBAs can be heroes if they can resolve performance problems quickly. I
SQL Server 2005 Failover Clustering White Paper
This white paper is intended for a technical audience and not technical decision makers. It complements the existing documentation around planning, implementing, and administering of a failover cluster that can be found in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Books Online. To ease the upgrade process for exist
Who Watches the Watchers or Upgrading Applications
(Antony Reynolds) We all remember our first encounter with recursion when learning programming, and we enjoyed the dictionary definition recursion – see recursion
XML Enabled Networks
Organizations developing and deploying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) often face a myriad of problems: cost, complexity, security concerns and performance. Learn how to offload XML processing overhead of Web services and SOA from application platforms and software middleware to the network allo
Log incoming MySQL connections to a table
(Beat Vontobel) With MySQL 5.1 you can store the general query log in a table. But what if you don’t want to log every single statement but only the users logging in and the hosts they’re coming from? There exists in fact a very simple solution that even works with MySQL 5.0 and (with some changes)
Integrating Reporting Services 2005 Into a Web Application
(DDarren) With release of Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft has made it much easier to integrate its SQL Reporting Services into ASP.NET web applications. Most desired functionality of Reporting Services can be achieved through its ReportViewer control, which is the focus of this article. For those of y
Find the Right IBM Rational Analysis Design and Construction Tools for Your Project
(Rikki Kirzner) You already know IBM Rational offers a rich portfolio of analysis, design, and construction (ADC) software and tools that are optimized to support a particular set of implementation technologies and development styles. But let’s be honest—the list of IBM Rational products is somewhat
Size of database in gigabytes
(Brian Peasland) I’m new to Oracle. How do I find out the total size of a database in gigabytes? (R)