Incorporating jQuery into SharePoint 2010 Webcast – Starts Tomorrow On Wednesday, December 7th, you have the opportunity to participate in the SSWUG Webcast for jQuery in SharePoint 2010. What a great way to increase dynamic content display, and add interface enhancements. You’ll also see client-side script development improvements over MOSS 2007, using jQuery and the new ECMA scripting capabilities. Register […]

"Care and Feeding of the SQL Server Transaction Log" Class – Starts Tomorrow Thanks to SQL Server MVP Kalen Delaney, you can learn why the transaction log is considered to be one of the most important components contributing to database perforemance. Click Here to register for the online class. Reader Comments – Version Does Matter Following are a couple of […]

SSWUG TV SQL Server Injection prevention and help, interview with Philip Japikse, Patterns and Practices Evangelist for Telerik. We also have the latest news on Oracle’s purchase of RightNow Technologies, IBMs push into unstructured data analysis and more. Watch the Show Featured Article(s) Optimistic Locking in DB2 for z/OS As of DB2 Version 9, a new technique called "optimistic locking" […]

Version Does Matter I received an Email from Michelle Poolet today. Michelle has a business providing support for SQL Server databases. As a result, she works with many different customers, each with unique problems and solutions. They also have many of the different versions of SQL Server available from Microsoft today. Michelle writes: Let me tell you about an incident […]

SSWUG TV – Interviews with Bob Zurek from Endeca and SSWUG.ORG Presenter Laura Rose. We also have the latest news on SQL Server 2012, product features from Sanbolic and insights on cloud computing from SQL Server MVP Stephen Wynkoop. [Watch the Show] SSWUG TV – Interview with Denny Cherry, SQL Server MVP and SSWUG.ORG Class Presenter. We also have the […]

String Comparison When doing searches on string data there are a number of comparison operators that are popular. I’ll give you a few from SQL Server. The = operation is the most common where you wish to strings to be exactly the same. Depending on your database and/or table configuration the = comparison will or will not be case sensitive. […]

Remoting I received this question from a reader regarding how to get applications operating on two different PCs to communicate. That is a broad topic, with many answers. So, today I thought I would consider one of the most difficult methods in Dot Net, which is Remoting. Obviously, there are a lot of other techniques/specifications to accomplish the same thing […]

Security When we think about security we often focus on things such as encryption, policies, procedures, building access processes, passwords and the like. We even look into tools for secure Email messaging. However, many of us walk around with the keys to the company residing in our laptop. Often, if we are developers, we have the source code in some […]

SSWUGtv – New Show! Will the cloud HELP our databases? Laura Rose, the news of the day and more. Also, the first in a series of segments on scale up vs. scale out and options that are available. [Watch the Show] Previously… Interview with Denny Cherry, SQL Server MVP and SSWUG.ORG Class Presenter. We also have the latest news on […]

Survivor Feedback You can picture the concept of Survivor as taking a harsh stance. Similar to the theory of evolution, Survival of the Fittest becomes a mantra. We remove our weak link so that the company can survive. Or, you can picture the concept of Survivor as motivation to help your company become efficient and competitive. Not for the purpose […]