(Danny Lesandrini) Back in 2000 (remember Y2K?), Marc Israel started a series of Access articles on the theme: Migrate to SQL Server. Marc suggested several titles for the series but some of them were never written and recently, readers have been asking if those topics would ever be addressed.
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How to rewind a SQL Server
(Brian Donahue) I work for a company that sells software. And SOME people, because of their untrusing nature, need to be convinced that the software that we want to sell them actually works. This process, in some large, bureaucratic institutions, involves salesmen and conference calls and schmoozing
Moving from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005 Security
Featured Article(s) SQLCMD — Part I (Vadivel Mohanakrishnan) This is the first of the three part series on SQLCMD of SQL Server 2005. The target audience of these articles are Basic to intermediate level readers. Need to Get Up To Speed on BI? BI is a core requirement for many companies and something that many people are struggling with – […]
SQL Server Maintenance, Oracle Security and More
Watch the Latest SQL Server Show Watch SelectViews here – you could even win $200 just for providing feedback! I’d love to hear what you think of some proposed new sections on the show. Plus, find out about data relevance, moving data from Access to SQL Server in our MiniCast and much, much more. I even have a new somtimes-segment, […]
Managed Methods Expands Web Services and SOA Management Offering
Managed Methods has added runtime exception management in the latest release of JaxView, their product for managing and monitoring Web service operations and SOA environments.
An Extensive Examination of Web Services: Part 11
(Scott Mitchell) As the previous ten installments in this article series have shown, the .NET Framework makes creating and consuming Web Services a walk in the park. Creating a Web Service is as easy as marking a class with the WebService attribute; Web Services can be easily consumed because the .N
DB2 for z/OS Recovery Resources in Review
(Rick Weaver) Why do companies build applications in DB2? The ability to back up and recover (applying logged changes since the backup) is what sets a DBMS apart from sequential file systems. DB2 recovery resources are among the reasons so much corporate data is stored in DB2. The DB2 log is critica
Q Replication recovery
(Beth Hamel) This article discusses best practices in the area of Q Replication recovery management. By examining several recovery scenarios and methods, you’ll learn about key recovery techniques and principles that can be employed in similar cases or in more general scenarios. Additionally, this a
Field Report: MIX Proves XBRL Handles More than Statutory Reporting
(Robert D. Kugel) Most people who have heard of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) associate it with regulatory submissions. U.S.-based public companies have the option of filing XBRL-tagged results with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), but it is used more intensively elsewhe
Create Scalable Semantic Applications with Database-Backed RDF Stores
(Rod Coffin) I hope you’ve been following the growing interest in semantic technology and reading the articles on DevX’s Semantic Zone, and feel ready to try out semantic technologies in your own applications. If so, you might have obtained a moderately sized RDF dataset from your domain and eagerly