(Irina Medvinskaya) An important function of any program is the ability to work with a file system and manipulate files and directories. In this tip, we examine how to work with a file system using VB.NET. We show you a handy way to perform necessary functions with examples that utilize the existing
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The 7 (f)laws of the Semantic Web
(Dan Zambonini) When it comes to the Semantic Web, you might call me a disillusioned advocate. I’ve been dipping in and out of the technologies for the last 5 years or so, but am increasingly frustrated by the lack of any visible progress.
Seven Steps to XML Mastery, Step 4: Parsing and Processing XML (Part 1 of 2)
(Frank Coyle) Now it’s time to move to step 4 in our series and look at options for working with XML at a programming level. For a company like ZwiftBooks, building a corporate infrastructure around XML implies being able to move XML code into and out of programs seamlessly. This means extracting, m
Programmatically Deploying a SQL Reporting Services 2005 Report
(Sivakumar Mahalingam) Most of the time, it is acceptable for customers to deploy reports manually via the Visual Studio Report Manager. But sometimes, there may be a hard rule that “anything deployable, for instance, WinForms apps, WebForms apps, or SSRS reports, etc. has to be deployed via MSI.
Case Expressions: SQL Server Select, Update and Crosstab Queries
CASE statements are very useful for categorizing data in SQL Server queries.
An Overview of Discoverer (Sample Chapter)
(Michael Armstrong-Smith) This chapter will introduce you to Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer 10g (10.1.2), henceforth referred to as Discoverer, the award-winning reporting and analysis tool from Oracle Corporation. We will discuss business intelligence and see how Discoverer is perfectly
DB2 Crack Lets in Attackers Without Database Credentials
(Lisa Vaas) Security researchers have uncovered a critical client/server protocol flaw in IBM’s DB2 database.
A New View of Data Stewardship – Unbiased Data Presentation
(Anne Marie Smith) One of the main areas of responsibility for any data steward is the enforcement of data integrity. Most data administration texts define data integrity as “attention to the consistency, accuracy and correctness of data stored in a database or other electronic file.”1 Commonly, dat
Error message when you use the Analysis Services Parallel Process Utility to process a partition of SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services: ‘Run-time error ‘380’: Invalid property value’
When you use the Analysis Services Parallel Process Utility to process a partition of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services, you receive the following error message: Run-time error ‘380’: Invalid property value
A Primer On .Net Caching: The Output Cache
(George P. Alexander Jr.) An old, close friend of mine had asked me to prepare a paper for him on .Net Caching around a week back so that he could present a seminar on the same to his team by the end of this week. He’s just moved over from classic ASP to ASP.Net quite recently and I’ve been engaging