Explore the drillthrough capabilities that debut in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services. Join Author Bill Pearson in a hands-on tutorial that examines the exciting new drillthrough capabilities, from both user and design perspectives, and discover how to make it possible for information cons
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Corel XMetaL 4, and XML authoring platform
Once again, Corel has improved the way organizations create and edit XML content. Introducing Corel® XMetaL® 4: a new set of tools designed to simplify the implementation of XML applications across an organization.
Partners; 64-Bit SQL Server Will Find Home In Midmarket
By Barbara Darrow – When Microsoft delivers 64-bit SQL Server to manufacturing next week, it’s not just enterprises that will reap the benefits. Many partners said they see interest from the midmarket as well.
More cracks appear in ‘unbreakable’ Oracle wares
By David Watson – Oracle’s promise of “unbreakable” databases and application servers has yet again found to be wanting, but New Zealand’s Oracle User Group (NZOUG) president says the company has actually been very clever.
Notification Services Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning
Discover the capabilities of Notification Services, common performance bottlenecks, and ways that you can design and test your own systems and Notification Services applications for optimal performance.
Retrieving OS/network username for audit trail
by Keshav Chennakeshav – In OLTP applications, data gets created and updated. An audit trail is often required to know who created a record and who updated it. A “SELECT NVL(user, SYS.login_user) FROM DUAL” query shows the database login account. The function below is helpful when the database login
Working with XML-based Configuration Files
XML-formatted files are fast becoming the preferred method of saving the configuration settings. The reasons for this include ease of parsing and processing, ability to transform (for instance to generate HTML report from the config settings), extensibility, and so on. The .NET Framework prov
Using the XSD Inference Utility
Learn about XSD Inference, a utility that simplifies the task of writing schema by automatically generating schemas from instance documents.
Veritas, BMC Team on Database Recovery
By Lisa Vaas – With the goal of getting crashed databases up and running more quickly and more reliably, BMC Software Inc. announced Tuesday that it has integrated its database backup and recovery product, SQL-BackTrack, to Veritas Software Corp.’s NetBackup backup tool.
IOUG Live! 2003
IOUG Live! 2003 is the conference for Oracle users, by Oracle users, delivering tested tips and techniques in over 200 technical sessions. Focus areas include: DBA, Architecture & Infrastructure, Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence, Application Server & Web Services; and eBusiness & Application