(Kevin Cline, Josh Cohen, Doug Davis, Donald F Ferguson, Heather Kreger, Raymond McCollum, Bryan Murray, Ian Robinson, Jeffrey Schlimmer, John Shewchuk, Vijay Tewari, and William Vambenepe) HP, IBM, Intel and Microsoft plan to develop a common set of specifications for resources, events, and managem
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Mastering OLAP Reporting: Meet Business Needs with Matrix Dynamics, Part II
(William Pearson) As I have shown in many past articles, including Part One of this session, the Microsoft Integrated BI Solution, consisting of the MSSQL Server 2005 Database Engine, Analysis Services 2005 and Reporting Services 2005, provides unprecedented flexibility in helping implementers and d
Using WSE 3.0 Today to Secure Web Services for Tomorrow
(Julia Lerman) WSE 3.0 is the newest incarnation of Microsoft’s Web Services Enhancements, a Visual Studio API that magically transforms your ASMX web services into the complex messages that follow a number of the WS-* Specifications.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and ASP.NET Developers
(Patrick Santry) If you’re developing for the Web then you should familiarize yourself with some Search Engine Optimization or SEO concepts. The idea here is to make your ASP.NET application as friendly as possible for spiders, and the specific spider we’re talking about is Google.
Improving on optimisers
(Philip Howard) After all these years you would assume, wouldn’t you, that database optimisers were pretty good? Companies like IBM and Oracle have been costing query plans and re-writing SQL not just for years but for decades, so you would expect that they would know what they were doing.
Understanding the Benefits of Implementing Oracle RAC on Sun Cluster Software
(Kristien Hens and Michael Loebmann) Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) rightly presents itself as the leading high availability (HA) technology provider with regard to commercial databases. A wellconsidered data center architecture plays a decisive role in this context. Configuring the underlyin
Managed Extensions: Using the .NET ODBC Classes to Read Text Data
(Tom Archer) While data for professional-caliber applications is most typically stored in traditional database systems, sometimes the data your application must use is in text format. This includes situations where you are accessing a small amount of test data, as well as scenarios where another sys
Using DTS: Import From/Export To a Non-Microsoft Database
(Jayaram Krishnaswamy) DTS, an integral part of MS SQL 2000 server, moves data very easily between MS SQL Servers and between Microsoft products. However, it can also reliably move data to and from non-Microsoft databases. Although DTS requires a Microsoft license, it can be implemented independentl
Printing Reporting Services Reports in Landscape from within .NET
(beeeen) Microsoft has recently released Reporting Services, an enterprise level reporting system. Reporting Services (RS) is now easily obtainable and most likely will be bundled with SQL Server starting with its next release. This makes RS not only powerful, but convenient. However, being a ne
Using Bind Variables
(Steve Muench) A bind variable is a placeholder in a SQL command for a value that will be supplied at runtime by the application. Because you can change the value of the bind variable as many times as needed without changing the actual text of the SQL command, the database can reuse the same stateme