(Philip Howard) Once upon a time there were ETL (extract, transform and load) tools and then, quite separately, products for data cleansing and matching started to appear. However, it took some time before the vendors of the former realised the synergies that existed with the latter. The (partial) e
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WebSphere Application Server V6 Migration Guide
(Carla Sadtler, Rudy Chukran, Tom Alcott, Don Bagwell, Wayne Beaton, David Dhuyvetter, Dana Duffield, Tushar Patel and Jack Snyder) This IBM Redbook has been written to assist you in the migration of your WebSphere Application Server installation. The end-to-end migration path includes the migration
Why Oracle Works the Way it Does (10) – Background Processes
(Dratz) When you go about designing and writing a new application, you typically identify the beggining, the ending, and everything in between.
Broken applications: Backward compatibility issues when switching to SQL Server 2005
(Serdar Yegulalp) It’s always good to be on top of the latest technology, and many DBAs with SQL Server 2000 or 7.0 setups are eyeing a migration to SQL Server 2005. The same DBAs typically have to rework applications to operate correctly with SQL Server 2005, such as custom databases, in-house fron
Navigate The .NET Framework And Your Projects With The My Namespace
(Duncan Mackenzie) I set out to write this article about Visual Basic 2005, but that left too many things to choose from. I could wander through the entire feature list, giving you a bit of information on cool IDE features like Edit and Continue, IntelliSense Code Snippets, or the Exception Assistan
Dynamic Paging of Data, Retrieve XML instead of REF CURSOR
(Lewis R Cunningham) A couple of days ago I wrote about paging through data using a REF CURSOR and dynamic SQL. Today I’m going to expand on that. Instead of using a REF CURSOR, it would be nice to pull back an XML document with just the subset of records the REF CURSOR would normally provide.
Building an RSS Feed Reader with Microsoft Office InfoPath
(S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton) While Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 offers out of the box connections to several types of data sources such as XML files, databases, SharePoint lists and web services, we can also use InfoPath to connect to web sites to retrieve or submit data. In this article we will create an
Creating a Node Tree Fragment in XSLT Using Internet Explorer
(Mike DiRenzo) This article describes a means of using C# to create a node-tree-fragment in XSLT.
How to Use NDoc to Generate XML Documentation in .NET
Documentation of your system is one of the important tasks that have to be done for any software system or product. Without that it is not easy to track the code and the features that are incorporated in the system.
FIX: You may not be able to use Analysis Manager to change server properties for an instance of SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services that is running on an IA-64 server computer
Consider the following scenario. You run 32-bit client applications for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services on a client computer that is running Microsoft Windows Server 2003. You install Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) on the client computer. In this scenario, you may not