(Mellonfire) In software design, efficiency is everything. The more efficient your code is, the faster it will run and the quicker it will respond to user commands. Inefficient, slow code usually needs to be reviewed and tweaked to make it run faster. But all of this is only possible if there ex
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SQL Server 2005 Integration Services – Part 17
(Marcin Policht) Continuing the topic of the Script Component in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, to which we have dedicated our previous two articles (covering its debugging capabilities and its role as a Data Flow Source), we will now take a closer look its usefulness as a Data Flow Transform
Converter for Microsoft Project 2002 XML file to TODOLIST XML file
(maharishi_b) I have been using .dan.g.’s ToDoList for a very long time now. It’s very easy for me to track things to do and also track the projects on which I am working. But there was always a problem related to the creation of task list. My organization uses Microsoft Project (like many other com
SQL Server 2005 DB Snapshot: Imperfect Yet Useful?
(Ravindra Okade) Database Snapshot (DB Snapshot for short) is a new tool offered by SQL Server 2005. Database snapshots can be used to protect against user errors, by creating a “snapshot” of your data that you can refer to later if you need to recover data or database objects that were accidentally
XML To The Max: Get More Power Out Of Your SQL Server
(Ward Pond) In this article, I will present a brief overview of how you can now manipulate XML in SQL Server 2000. The focus of the article is intra-system communication between a SQL Server 2000 T-SQL stored procedure and a Web service or user interface component.
Interview with Kai ‘Oswald’ Seidler from the XAMPP project
(Lenz Grimmer) I recently had the pleasure to get in touch with Kai “Oswald” Seidler from the Apache Friends team. He is one of the people behind “XAMPP”, an easy to install software distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl which is available for Linux and Windows. The project also added support
CodeSnip: GnuPG Encryption for Email, XML, and Others in a VB.NET Wrapper
(Terry Voss) For email there is only one security standard that is highly used–PGP or the public domain version GnuPG. I recently had to apply GnuPG to a commercial email program and found that nowhere on the Internet was this asymmetric encryption available for .NET usage. It was quite a challenge
Know Your UML with XML
(Robert Wigetman and Jurgen Moortgat) Software technology has evolved to the point where big systems have become so complex that they are no longer simply specified in human language and programmed in computer language. Indeed, using UML (Unified Modeling Language) to model new software has become a
Oracle Fusion Middleware for Developers
Now a visible leader in the middleware market and Java developer community, Oracle demonstrated major momentum during 2005 with its Oracle Fusion Middleware product family. One of the primary forces behind that momentum is Thomas Kurian, Oracle’s Senior Vice President for Oracle Fusion Middleware. R
Decoding Oracle’s Latest Fusion Update
(Joshua Greenbaum) I got a call on the way to a recent Oracle Fusion briefing from Oracle analyst relations. SAP had apparently put out a bulletin in advance of the Oracle event that, in addition to offering pre-emptive rebuttals of what Oracle was going to say, offered me up as an independent analy