(Ken Downs) The Wikipedia entry on “Business Logic” has a wonderfully honest opening sentence stating that “Business logic, or domain logic, is a non-technical term… (emphasis mine)”. If this is true, that the term is non-technical, or if you like, non-rigorous, then most of us spend the better pa
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Phorum Bulletin Board ported to IBM DB2
(Radim Kolar) I ported Phorum Bulletin board from MySQL to IBM DB2 9.5.2 or higher. Now you can run PHP based bulletin board solution on your server backed by IBM DB2. It is fully working with exception that maximum message size is 32KB, which is more than enough for practical purposes because you c
Best practices when using BULK INSERT
(Madhivanan) In the SQL Server forums, I see questions complaining that BULK INSERT is not taking care of check constraints. There are also some other questions related to BULK INSERT. Here I summarise them and explain
SharePoint 2010: Delivering Intelligence with SharePoint Dashboards
(Joshua Hoffman) We live in the era of data-driven decision making. Robust data infrastructures help organizations collect unlimited volumes of data from myriad sources. They can then integrate and analyze that data, driving intelligent business decisions based on concrete information.
IBM Cognos Proven Practices: Embed IBM Cognos Now! Dashboard Objects and Reports in Custom Web Applications
(Prakash Dewan) This write-up will help IBM Cognos Now! users in understanding how they can embed IBM Cognos Now! dashboard objects and reports in their external HTML applications and web pages.
Getting Started with Maps in SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services
(Ray Barley) I noticed a new feature in SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services that allows you to render maps in your reports. Can you provide some details on this new feature and can I take advantage of it even though don’t have any spatial columns in my data warehouse?
Email In Your Database
Email In Your Database There are many ways to enable Email within a SQL Server database and ways to take advantage of Email. If I don’t have a third party database monitoring tool, I like to use Email from SQL Server to notify me of events I need to address such as disk space, database files becoming full, Expanding Data […]
Influence
Featured Script Save / append logfile (ASCII) This generic proc appends/creates an ASCII (log) file to an alternate place…. (read more) Influence As the year comes to a close my mind turns back on all the different people with whom I have worked. Having started programming in the early ’80s results in a lot of individuals. I find it interesting […]
Filter History for Dynamic Data 4
(Stephen Naughton) I did a AJAX History in a Dynamic Data Website article back in February 2009 to make filter respect the back button in the browser, this however was not enough for my customers they wanted the filter to be remembered even when they came back to the page without using the back butt
Using CFML Files To Pre-Process CFM Files In ColdFusion
(Ben Nadel) A lot of the cool stuff that I’ve learned in Seven Languages in Seven Weeks depends on the ability to write lambda / anonymous functions in your code. As of version 9.0.1, ColdFusion still doesn’t allow for anonymous functions. But, it does allow for onMissingTemplate() functionality. As