By Ellen O’Brien – When the call went out for DBA bloopers, Christopher James Thompson sent a whopping five memorable blunders. Is he more accident prone that most DBAs? We doubt it. Thompson is probably just more honest. Here Thompson recounts two of his favorite bloopers for SearchDatabase.com rea
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Appropriate Uses of MSDE
Several Microsoft product licenses convey the right to use and redistribute the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000) version 2.0. Review the information on this page to learn which product licenses or subscription services convey the redistribution rights you require. In all cases, y
One tree isn’t enough
Patrick Durusau and Jeni Tennison have announced two complementary approaches to support multiple overlapping structures over a single document.
Preparing and Mining Data with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Analysis Services
Learn how to apply data mining to a real-world situation using SQL Server 2000, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services, and Microsoft Visual Basic® 6.0. Clean and prepare a real-world dataset for data mining, create data mining models from the cleaned data, and choose the best mining model for
Comparative Lab Report: Client Tools for Analysis Services
Analysis Services doesn’t include a client tool for querying, reporting, or analyzing data, so unless you write a custom client browser, you have to find a commercial application. But which one? This review will help you choose the right tool.
Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 3rd Edition
This new edition by PL/SQL experts Steven Feuerstein and Bill Pribyl covers all versions of PL/SQL, from Oracle 7.3.4 to Oracle 9i Release 2. It includes new chapters on creating and running PL/SQL programs, calling Java methods from within PL/SQL, and defining and using database triggers, as well a
Performance Management : Facts and Myths
By Cary Millsap – Performance management consists of problem diagnosis and repair, resource management, applications optimization, and capacity planning. In constructing a reliable performance management method for hundreds of Oracle database sites, my colleagues and I have encountered bits of inter
Use Eclipse to build a user interface for XM
Anyone familiar with XM — the low-cost, open-source content management solution based on XSLT — knows that for all its good points, it still lacks a decent user interface. In this article, columnist Benoît Marchal uses the Eclipse platform’s open universal framework to build a user interface for X
Creating an XML WebService using Manged Extensions for C++
by Sushant Bhatia – Here is how you Create an XML webservice using Managed Extensions for C++.
Rift Threatens Web Services Security Spec
By Darryl K. Taft – An emerging rift among supporters of a proposed Web services security specification could slow the ratification of the standard and hamstring enterprises trying to settle on a way to make Web services transactions safer.