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OLAP SQL Part 3 – Grouping Sets

(Chris Eaton) So far we have talked about ROLLUP and CUBE. Now let’s look at GROUPING SETS. Have you ever had a query where you wanted to see the results on different groups? For example you want to see a report of sales grouped by sales rep and you also want to see sales grouped by week and geograp

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Hello, Workflow

(scott) Windows Workflow might be the most significant piece of middleware to arrive on the Windows platform since COM+ and the Distributed Transaction Coordinator. The difference is, not every application needs a distributed transaction, but nearly every application does have a workflow encoded ins

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Handling Web services transactions

(Daniel Rubio) Executing individual pieces of software to perform as one unit of work is an area consistently tackled by many software platforms and an issue that is central to many business processes. The all encompassing term for this subject is named “transactions.” In the upcoming paragraphs, we