(Rodney Landrum) It could be that one is speaking hypothetically, as DBAs so often do, and do so well; but it may be that one is responding to a true-to-life emergency change in a Daliesque paranoiac frenzy, but there could easily come a time when you will need to change those service credentials un
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Request for Help and Feedback with the Weekly SQL Server Show
Newest Weekly SQL Server Show Posted SelectViews: Data Context and SQL Server, MiniCast about Access and SQL Server, Upcoming Events. Also, the SQL Server Challenge, the 60-Second SQL Server Tip of the Day, our Wrox Book Look and Much More. Find out about how to make $200! Please Note: If you have a minute, take a look at the show […]
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SQL Server Maintenance: I Just Do Not Get It
Last Day to Catch the Current SelectViews Our next weekly SQL Server show will post tomorrow – catch the current episode here. Please be sure to check out the SQL Server challenge – we need your help! Also, by taking a stab at the challenge, you could win $200. Need I say more? > Watch the show here Sometimes There […]
Updating and Inserting Data with ADO.NET and ASP.NET 2.0
(Michael Youssef) In this article we will use methods of the SqlCommand class to insert and update data. We will look at a technique for making sure that the Close() method of the SqlConnection and the SqlDataReader classes is called even when an exception is raised.
Converting XML Schemas to Schematron (#1)
(Rick Jelliffe) In my blog Converting Content Models to Schematron I outlined some code ideas. Recently we (Topologi) have been working on an actually implementation for a client: a series of XSLT 2 scripts that we want to release as open source in a few months time.
Ajax and XML: Ajax for lightboxes
(Jack D Herrington) In a world where everything is designed to amaze and distract, it’s awfully difficult to get a user’s attention. Learn how to use new techniques such as lightboxes, pop-ups, windows, and fading messages with your Ajax tools to get your users’ eyes on your content.
Microformats: Toward a Semantic Web
(Sean Michael Kerner) In the beginning of the Internet revolution, being connected was all about the simple hyperlink. Like magic with one click a Web browser could be transported anywhere on the Internet that content lives.
Understanding Upgrade Exams
(Susan Visser) Thanks to Susan Dykman for setting me straight on the details of the upgrade exams. I’m passing the information onto you so hopefully you’ll have less confusions as to which exam you are to take to upgrade to the DB2 9 Database Administrator for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Certification.
Your V8 NFM upgrade is complete. Now what?
(Willie Favero) You are now running in DB2 Version 8 new function mode (NFM). Take a deep breath and give yourself a good pat on the back. You did good. However, completing your upgrade to V8 NFM really means that it is time to start planning your next upgrade, your upgrade to DB2 9 for z/OS. You se