(Ged Mead) So Visual Studio 2008 is finally here! After what seems like a long time using Betas, VS 2005 extensions and various other weirdly named WIPs, it’s great that the full, final version has arrived.
Other News
Nested Master Pages
To give a same look to the overall site Master Pages are used since long. They give you the power to customize your web pages but keeping the same overall look of the website as well. To add to this, one of the cool advanced features of the new Master Pages feature in ASP.NET 2.0 is the ability to n
Catching the (Silver) Light
(Dave Campbell) I’d guess that everyone reading this magazine has heard of Silverlight. I’ll also guess that not everyone has jumped at the opportunity to “play” with something that had been in beta. The good news is that Silverlight 1.0 is now released! I’ve spent a lot of time with Silverlight sin
User Administration Tool (Part 1)
(Bipin Joshi) ASP.NET membership, role and profile features make it easy to develop a membership driven web site. However, equally important is a way to administer and manage the users registered with the web site. If you have managed any membership driven web site then you would be familiar with th
Tracking your Oracle client versions in 11g
(Alex Gorbachev) I have recently stumbled upon V$SESSION_CONNECT_INFO view and discovered that it provides interesting information about client-side software and settings.
Data Auditing in Oracle Applications – AuditTrails
(Aviad Elbaz) Following my last post about Audit users in Oracle Applications, in this post I’m going to talk about the AuditTrails – the data auditing feature in Oracle Applications.
charsets and collations on multicolumn fulltext index
(Corra) Today I answered to a problem regarding fulltext indexes on an italian newsgroup. The guy was in trouble in building a multicolumn fulltext index. MySQL always said that a column cannot be part of the index. Why?
Types of data compressions in SQL Server 2008
(Sunil Agarwal) SQL Server deploys two strategies to compress the data.
Using system variables in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services applications
(Tim Chapman) The use of variables is vital to any type of program, and SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS) is no different. SSIS has been drastically improved over DTS in SQL Server 2000 to provide much better support for the use of variables. This tutorial describes how to use the built-in
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition – Part 10
(Marcin Policht) In the previous installment of our series dedicated to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, we have demonstrated unique behavior of user instances by observing operational characteristics of the SSEUtil administrative utility. While our presentation was sufficient to ensure a basic unde