(Jon Galloway) Visual Studio 2008 has been out for over a week. I’ve upgraded three machines (two Vista, one XP) from Beta 2 to RTM, then upgraded a couple of projects. I’ve also been watching blog posts and listening in at the Twitter water-cooler to hear about other developers’ experiences, proble
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IBM massages its MDM messaging
(Philip Howard) Readers may recall that I have been somewhat critical about IBM’s marketing of MDM in the past, because I thought its message around multiform MDM was too restrictive, in that it focused only on the need to support multiple data domains and the need to address multiple business issue
Oracle11g on CentOS-5, package requirements
(James F. Koopmann) I don’t really know why this always seems to be an issue with Oracle installations. But if have ever installed Oracle on Linux/Unix you probably have come to that part of the documentation where it talks about the required packages to install. I too have been baffled by not only
ORDER BY clause with multicolumn index
(Corra) When dealing with multicolumn indexes the order of the columns in the index definition is very important.
Estimating the space savings with data compression
(Sunil Agarwal) Like I had indicated in my previous blog, it is recommended that you estimate compression savings on the object of interest before actually enabling compression as enabling compression is an expensive operation. To show how to estimate data compression, I have created a very simplist
Matt Nunn on SSWUGtv: Visual Studio 2008
New SQL Server Weekly Show Posted A wide-ranging interview with Microsoft’s Matt Nunn about Visual Studio 2008, what it does, what he likes about it, and so much more. Also, a bit about update stats, discussion list watch and a whole lot of other great SQL Server information. > Watch the show here Also, don’t miss: Watch: Handling a DBA […]
Starting with XML
(Neil Williams) HTML is the foundation of the WWW and is perfect for presenting a multitude of web pages. Problems arise when large sites need a consistent look and feel with variable content. Creating 30 almost identical HTML files can be straightforward – maintaining each one and making sure that
Create Dynamic Maps with Visual Basic 9.0 and WPF
(Scott Wisniewski) I’ve always had a bit of a fascination with drawing maps. I also think that Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Basic 9.0 are amazing. As a result, when I got the opportunity to play around with Visual Studio and then write an article about it, I figured the perfect topic would be a tut
Integrating IBM Lotus Forms with WebSphere Portal to create a form-centric application
(Si Ri Lin and Steve Shewchuk) IBM Lotus Forms allows you to create and deliver XML forms applications. As one of its components, it provides a common, open application programming Interface (API). Using this API, you can integrate electronic forms data with server-side applications as well as acces
Accessing and Updating Data in ASP.NET 2.0: Handling Database NULL Values
(Scott Mitchell) In the last two installments of this article series – Updating Basics and Customizing the Editing Interface – we saw how to configure the SqlDataSource control to issue UPDATE statements to a database and how to then configure the GridView control to work in tandem with the SqlDataS