(Jon Galloway) SharpZipLib provides best free .NET compression library, but what if you can’t use it due to the GPL license? I’ll look at a few options, ending with my favorite – System.IO.Packaging.
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(Wei-Meng Lee) Microsoft Expression Blend is a new full-featured design tool for creating highly-interactive and sophisticated Windows application user interfaces using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). With Expression Blend, a designer can design and create the UI of an application without wor
Using application and page items in PDF reports
Mark Sewtz) One of the benefits of the advanced printing capabilities built into Oracle Application Express is that users are able to include application and page level item values in their print documents along with the actual report result-set. These values can be used to filter the report result
Putting Business Intelligence at Your Fingertips, Part I
(Mike Cain and Jarek Miszczyk) Business intelligence (BI) is rapidly regaining the attention of business executives because a well-designed and well-implemented data warehousing system can truly provide the organization with a competitive edge. This two-part article will help you understand how to b
Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.3/2 – Custom Drill Path Navigation
(Venkatakrishnan J) One of the common questions that we typically get in the forums is how do we enable multiple custom drill paths. For example, check the forum entry here wherein the user wanted to have multiple drill paths. The user himself came up with an answer which i actually had forgotten ab
Microsoft’s Lineup of SQL Server Related Webcasts for November 2007
Eighteen new webcasts are scheduled for November, covering such topics as “Building Spatial Applications with SQL Server 2008”, “Build Smart Web Applications with SQL Server Data Mining” and more.
Did You Know? What’s a $ Worth?
(Kalen Delaney) No, I’m not talking about US dollars, which are not worth much at all these days. I’m talking about the $ used in a particular construct in SQL Server 2005 to get information about a partition definition. There is a construct called $PARTITION which the BOL actually refers to as a fu
Database security testing terms: Setting the record straight
(Kevin Beaver) Something has been bugging me in the field of information security for quite a while. It has to do with how we often use these security testing terms: security audit, penetration test and vulnerability assessment interchangeably. Call me anal retentive, too logical or just a normal gu
Understanding the Difference between Owners and Schemas in SQL Server
(Kathi Kellenberger) SQL Server 2005 introduces the concept of schemas as opposed to object owners found in previous versions. This article will explain the differences between the two and, hopefully, clear up some of the confusion that still exists about schemas.
Understanding Software Testing, Blobs in the Database and More
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