SSWUG TV With Stephen Wynkoop In this edition you’ll find Eric Johnson and Stephen Wynkoop talking SSIS, and Laura Rose is back with more tips for your career. Watch the Show Webcast Tomorrow – Last day to register, free for Full Members! SSRS Data-driven Subscription using SSIS SQL Server Reporting Services provides a powerful tool to render report based on […]
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Reporting Services Webcast Next Wednesday Data-driven Subscription using SSIS… SQL Server Reporting Services provides a powerful tool to render reports based on information in a database table. However, you are required to purchase an Enterprise license of SQL Server in order to use this feature. Next Wednesday (Feb. 1), Russel Loski, who is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and an independent […]
Newest Log4Net Release is Dot Net 4.0 Compliant
Newest Log4Net Release is Dot Net 4.0 Compliant Logging is an integral part of any application. The developers of Log4Net have created a fantastic infrastructure for logging. What really makes it cool is: It is configuration driven – ie. you can change the way it works by making changes in your configuration rather than your code. You can have it […]
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MDX Training (Chicago) Our training partner, SolidQ, will be hosting a hands-on, instructor-led course on Jan. 31-Feb. 2 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Lisle, Illinois. The course will guide students step-by-step through the Analysis Service 2008 Multi Dimensional eXpression (MDX) OLAP query language. Tim Peterson, the course instructor and author of several books on Business Intelligence, will provide […]
Reader Reactions on Recent Entity Framework Editorials
SSWUG-TV With Steven Wynkoop, Sam Brace, and our Field Reporter – Kevin Kline In this new episode of SSWUG-tv we take a look at the purchase of Green Hat by IBM. Come Check It Out Is Entity Framework the successor to ODBC? Lots of good input on this topic. Some of the responses are contradictory. Here’s what some of our […]
Is Entity Framework the Next ODBC?
Is Entity Framework the Next ODBC? What made ODBC a viable technology? It created a single interface for which drivers could be written allowing access to a data store. ODBC drivers were written for text files, Excel Documents, Microsoft Exchange, ISAM Files, Relational Databases, and much more. The key was, there was a common interface used by an ODBC consumer; […]