(Christina Lau and Valentina Birsan) If your goal is to leverage cloud environments as an additional avenue to deliver your software, the best practices described in this article (with more to come) demonstrate how to design your applications to achieve a successful cloud-based deployment model.
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Getting Started with Report Parts in SQL Server Report Builder 3.0
(Ray Barley) One of the many new features in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 is one called Report Parts. You can publish parts of a report then reuse those parts in other reports. In this tip I will demonstrate how to take advantage of this new feature.
Restricting Proprietary Database Access
Restricting Proprietary Database Access I read on a thread in a newsgroup yesterday where the writer uses SQL Server for persistence in their application. However, they want to lock the database down so that it cannot be manipulated by their customers. The designer wants to configure the database so that it is completely un-accessible to anything except their proprietary application. […]
Characteristics of an Architectural DBA
Free Webcast: Using the MMC to Manage and Learn TSQL and Source Code Wednesday, March 8 Want to tune up your SQL Server Management skills. Our very own SQL Server MVP stephen Wynkoop is presenting a Free webcast next Wednesday, March 9th. Learn how to use MMC to generate code, interact with version control, and manage your servers. Click here […]
VTD-XML 2.10 Released
VTD-XML 2.10 is now released under Java, C#, C and C++.
The Semantic Link – Episode 3 – February 11, 2011
On Friday, February 11, a group of Semantic thought leaders from around the globe met with their host and colleague, Paul Miller, for the third installment of the Semantic Link, a monthly podcast covering the world of Semantic Technologies.
Remove ViewState from an ASP.NET Page
(Suprotim Agarwal) In this post, we will explore how to remove ViewState from your asp.net page and instead store it in a session. This could be useful when pages are to be served to devices with less resources.
jQuery Mobile and JSON
(Frank Ableson) jQuery powers many of the sites on the Internet today, providing dynamic user experience in the browser and helping to make traditional desktop applications increasingly rare. Now that browsers found on the major mobile platforms have caught up to desktop browser functionality, the j
Custom Configuration Sections in .NET
(Pete Mourfield) Inevitably, .NET developers will need to store application configuration data. Most often, developers choose to store this data in an XML Configuration File (.config). There are many different sections of this file that allow for the configuration of different areas of the applicati
Finding Oracle Homes which Oracle instances are using on Linux
(Tanel Poder) I had a question about how to quickly identify which Oracle process runs out of which ORACLE_HOME on Linux.