Webcast Today – Register Now Managing Change with Your SQL Server We’ll look into what options you have for managing change – from documenting your systems to how triggers work and how you can apply to them to your databases as an audit measure. We’ll also investigate other technologies you’ll want to know about when considering how you control and […]
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Webcast Tomorrow: Managing Change with SQL Server
Using, Supporting, Developing for SQL Server? You need to be at SQL Connections and/or DevConnections. SQL Connections in Orlando, FL is the place to be for an in-person, highly technical conference. The conference provides an amazing array of sessions and is even co-located (and you can attend sessions for free) – with ASP.NET Connections, Visual Studio and SharePoint Connections. All […]
Changing Times, Changing Objects – How to use the ALTOBJ Stored Procedure
(Theresa (Tong) Xu) Many experienced DBAs and developers found it difficult to change the column definition of an existing table. Why? Because the longer the table lives, the more objects become dependent on its definition.
Understanding Open XML
(Matt Nicholson) Developers have long been building applications around Microsoft Office, using its rich API to build complex business solutions. However until now this has usually meant either running Microsoft Office in an unattended server mode, which is extremely resource intensive and not suppo
IBM Data Studio Data Web Services, Part 2: Deploy Data Web Services to a WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Web server
(Michael L. Pauser and Patsy Yu) IBM Data Studio V1.1 contains many new features, one of which is Data Web Services. Data Web Services allows you to quickly and easily expose database operations (SQL SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE) and stored procedures CALLs as a Web service operation to client
Developing an Eclipse BIRT XML Report Rendering Extension
(Jason Weathersby) BIRT Report Engine provides report rendering extensions that render a report in HTML, PDF, XLS, PostScript, and Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. In BIRT release 2.2.1, the BIRT report rendering extension API supports rendering a report in a customized format, such as XML.
Measuring Disk I/O—A Vendor View
(James Koopmann) How do you know if the disks you will be using from ANY particular vendor can muster up the IOPS and MBPS required to satisfy your current or future workloads?
RELAX NG for matching
(Jeni Tennison) I’m still thinking about doing automatic markup with XML pipelines, and the kind of components that you might need in such a pipeline. These are the useful ones (list inspired by the components offered by GATE): –a tokeniser that uses regular expressions to add markup to plain te
Strategies to implement a multi-criteria filtering
(John Charles Olamendy) Sometimes we’re developing applications that require performing searches against database tables in SQL Server 2000/2005. The search must enable using a set of optional parameters (up to 10 parameters for example) as the main search criteria (a null value indicates not to fil
Spotlight on Silverlight 2 : Introduction and Installation
(Kevin Hoffman) First off, let me just say that I’ve been waiting for this day for almost a year now. When Silverlight 1.0 came out, I was terribly disappointed but I was also really eager as well. I saw potential in that JavaScript-only cross-platform runtime. When Silverlight 1.1 came out (which I