(Allen White) One of the first things a pilot is taught is to use checklists. Everything from preflight to tie down after your return is covered in aviation checklists. Did you check the thickness of the brake pads? Did you actually look in the fuel tanks to see how much fuel you have (because guage
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Columnar Databases, Job Schedules and SQL Server
Watch The Latest SQL Server Weekly Show Here Last chance to catch last week’s show before the new show posts tomorrow. > Watch Here Featured Article(s) Stopping your Jobs on a Schedule Do you ever need to make sure a job does not run in the next production day? If your code can be sectioned off to do smaller pieces, […]
SQLonCall Show Released, Data Responsibility In Our Profession
SQLonCall: The Show About SQL Server Reality Black box software – Chris Shaw goes through specifics of working with vendors, selecting solid tools and more. Find out the key things you need to ask, how to get the most from your vendors and how to make your acquisition a success. > Watch the show here Pulling Information From Non-Relational Sources… […]
Creating Tabbed Dialogs Using AJAX
(Bipin Joshi) Tabbed dialogs come handy when you have too many controls on your web form. If all the controls are placed at once in front of the user the page may look cluttered. Instead you can logically group the controls using a tabbed user interface making it neat and easy to use. One way to dev
The Semantic Web and Your Intranet
(Paula Gregorowicz) Much like in the music industry where there are so-called “overnight sensations” that toiled for years to create their success, web technology seems to sprout the “next big thing” out of nowhere. At least that is how it feels to me with the semantic web.
No More OwnerDraw!
(Ged Mead) In Visual Studio 2008, thanks to the introduction of Windows Presentation Foundation, the humble ListBox finally comes of age. In previous incarnations, if you wanted to do anything but the most basic tweak of the user interface of a ListBox you usually had to resort to using OwnerDraw te
Operators
(Tim Patrick, Steven Roman, Ron Petrusha and Paul Lomax) Operators are the basic data manipulation tools of any programming language. All data ultimately breaks down into single bits of 0 and 1. And the whole reason a computer exists is to manipulate those single bits of data with basic operators. T
Protect ‘Data at Rest’ Using DB2 on Linux, UNIX or Windows
(Rebecca Bond) When we think about security, we often mention the term “security in depth.” Layer after layer, we build our security architecture attempting to achieve a robust defense mechanism. We put in firewalls, build access control lists, devise elaborate intrusion detection schemes, enforce
.NET Tip: Debugging: Dynamically Determining the Name of the Current Function
(Jay Miller) Determining function names dynamically can simplify your debugging and trace logic as well as ensure that your trace messages match the actual code that generated them. All you have to do is wrap all your calls to Trace() with your own custom function. This utility function then can ref
Business Intelligence for the Average Joe: Getting Excel Data into SharePoint 2007 Lists
(Colin Spence) This article walks you through a case study that illustrates how to marry SharePoint 2007 with Excel data to offer a Business Intelligence (BI) “lite” solution for avid spreadsheet users. The information and lessons learned in this article come from a real-world project, where a compa