(Anand) It had been long time i had played with TDE, so thought of experimenting few things, as its the best way to learn.
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OBIEE 11g: Fun With Folders!
(chet justice) I’ve had a bit of time to play with 11g lately. One thing that really jumps out is the directory structure.
Programmers Only: New ORDER BY Information
(Bonnie Baker) In the latest releases of DB2 for z/OS, our body of knowledge about ORDER BY has to be revamped. Not only are there many new things to learn, but there are also many changes to old things that we once knew about ORDER BY. I’m going to devote the next few columns to exploring five of t
Separation of duties with SQL Server
(Matteo Lorini) In many organizations there is a need to segment what DBAs can do in certain environments. By default most DBAs are made sysadmins, but this gives them full control over the SQL Sever instance.
OTLT Put To Bed and Unfinished Business
OTLT Put to Bed Yesterday we reviews some of the developer issues resulting in the use of OTLT (One True Lookup Table). Today I just want to talk briefly about the opportunity available for a tool to manage the contents and distribution of Lookup Tables. There are number of tools today doing a great job of comparing database table contents, […]
OTLT Reloaded
SelecTViews Hosted by Stephen Wynkoop Security policy gotchas, social media and data ownership questions, working with unstructured data…also on the show today, Couchbase with information about the merger plus the SQL Server tip of the day. Watch the Show $$SWYNK$$ Featured Article(s) Non-Tech Blunders (Part 1 of 3) Along the lines of Admistrative and Development Blunders there are other bluders […]
Migrating Business Connectivity Services External Content Types in SharePoint 2010
(Scot Hillier) Learn how to migrate Business Connectivity Services external content types from a development environment to testing environments and production environments in Microsoft SharePoint 2010. Techniques are presented for migrating external content types that are created by using Microsoft
Video Presentation: Regular Expressions, Extraordinary Power
(Ben Nadel) I first learned how to use Regular Expressions (aka RegEx) about 6 or 7 years ago for the purposes of data cleaning. I would take massive Excel files, paste them into Macromedia Homesite, and then use the Find/Replace feature to strip out all the extra spaces, tabs, and commas. It was te
How to get the value of a Hidden column in a GridView using C#
(Syed Shakeer) This article explains how to retrieve the value of a cell in a hidden column when a user selects a row in a GridView with a hidden column.
Creating a Custom Markup Extension in WPF (and soon, Silverlight)
(Pete Brown) WPF currently, and Silverlight in v5, enables you to create your own custom markup extensions. Markup extensions are those little strings in XAML that are typically (but not always) enclosed in {curly braces} which, as the name implies, add new functionality to XAML. The most commonly u