(Gregory A. Larsen) Have you started looking at what issues you might have migrating your existing applications to SQL Server 2005? If not then maybe as a first step, you should consider looking into what the SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Advisor can do for you. This article will discuss what the Upgrade
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PyQT: Getting Started
(A.P.Rajshekhar) PyQT is used in Python for creating graphical user interfaces. This article gets you started with the basics of PyQT.
An Overview of the New Caching Features in ASP.NET 2.0
(John Peterson) Prior to ASP.NET 1.x, if you wanted to implement any sort of caching in your Web-based application, you were pretty much on your own. With ASP.NET 1.x, Microsoft provided many different caching options built right in. No longer were you forced to roll your own caching solutions. In m
Access Active Directory data via .NET
(Tony Patton) If you’re working within a Windows Server-based network, you are probably using Microsoft’s Active Directory. Active Directory’s purpose is to reduce the number of directories and namespaces within a network and provide a unified view of a complex network.
Pitfalls of using T-SQL cursors
(Hilary Cotter) Conventional wisdom states that cursors are evil! A cursor is a memory resident set of pointers that reference data in your result set or, more accurately, the data in the base tables. Cursors have a bad reputation because they are typically the favorite hammer of every junior SQL de
Displaying the Sizes of Your SQL Server’s Database’s Tables
(Scott Mitchell) In my day-to-day work as a writer, trainer, and consultant, I usually wear the ASP.NET developer hat, focusing on designing the middle-tier and front-end portions of ASP.NET applications with my exposure to the database usually being limited to data modeling and writing queries/stor
MSXML, concluded
(Jim Keogh and Ken Davidson) So far in this chapter, you’ve learned how to insert one XML document into another. In addition to this, you’ll need to select, extract, delete, and validate information contained in an XML document.
The MaxDB series on PlanetMySQL
MySQL has started a MaxDB series on its corporate blog aggregator. Since the beginning of Februar the MaxDB team tries to write one MaxDB article per week for you. The articles get published on our english language web site http://www.planetmysql.org. All articles together will make a complete MaxDB
What’s new with SAML?
(Ed Tittel) In previous XML tips we’ve looked at (and around) the Security Assertion Markup Language, aka SAML. But in the wake of increasing adoptions and use—as for example, its adoption as a cornerstone of the US Federal E-Authentication Initiative—another look seems warranted and is bound to pro
Quick XML Formatting with Microsoft Excel
(Scott Manning) You have a long list that you want to put in an XML format. This tutorial will show you a quick way to do it with Microsoft Excel.