(Pat Shuff) I have had a discussion at a number of customers of how to expand their existing footprint. They are regional companies that have merged or acquired another company. The new organization is typically an international company. The question comes up how to let the users from Singapore, Syd
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A Quick Tour of Boo
(Peyton McCullough) If you’re looking for a portable .NET language and don’t want to use a C-style syntax, you might want to take a look at Boo. Don’t let the name spook you; if you’re comfortable with Python, you’ll feel right at home with Boo.
Inserting Multiple Rows Using GridView
(Bipin Joshi) ASP.NET GridView control is one of the most popular control when it comes to displaying and editing tabular data. However, when it comes to inserting data the GridView has very little to offer. Using a technique as illustrated in my article titled Inserting a New Row in GridView you ca
ASP.NET GridView Sort Indicator Component
(Urs Enzler) This article presents a component that is used to add a sort indication image to GridView columns.
Simple Application Extensibility with WF Rules
(Bennie Haelen) In this post, we take a lot at how we can use WF Rules to implement simple application extensibility. For some applications, you might want to enhance the flexibility and extensibility of your application without having to invest extraordinary amounts of time in devising and testing
DB2 for z/OS Data Warehouse: Modern Master
(James Reed and Michaelyn Shelley-David) Many companies rely on DB2 for z/OS for the highest level of availability and scalability. The U.K. government’s Land Registry maintains the world’s largest known transaction processing database (23.1TB) on DB2 for z/OS. UPS executes 1.1 billion SQL statement
Jump-start business activity monitoring (BAM), Part 7: Implement duration metrics in WebSphere Monitor 6.0.2
(Kiet Q. Nguyen, Shubha Tangirala and Sundaraman Venkataraman) How efficient is your current business process implementation? One of the defining metrics for analyzing business process performance is the time factor, or duration. A business process is generally a series of activities to fulfill a bu
Error message when you try to set a witness in a database mirroring session in SQL Server 2005
Consider the following scenario: • You have a database mirroring session in Microsoft SQL Server 2005. • The database mirroring session does not have a witness. • You set up a witness server. • On the principal server and on the witness server, you do not use DNS together with DHCP for n
Build code portability between SQL Server environments
(Denny Cherry) SQL Server code portability is, unfortunately, a lost art these days for many programmers and database administrators. Some newer professionals in the field are unaware of the importance of code portability or its importance for maintaining a stable scalable multi-environment infrastr
Microsoft Windows PowerShell and SQL Server 2005 SMO – Part 5
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) This installment of the article series illustrates how to use PowerShell and PowerShell script to create databases, etc.