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(Ged Mead) Let’s face it, ease of printing in VB.NET has never been its main selling point. In fact, because you literally have to draw most of what you want transferred to paper (or save some kind of screen capture to an image file and then print that), it really can be a bit of a pain.
Custom Client Side Drag and Drop Behavior in ASP.NET AJAX
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(Vivek Sharma) Index Skip Scan was a new feature introduced in Oracle 9i Release 1. Infact, this was also available in Oracle 8i but was not made public. This feature enables an application team to review indexing strategies and create less indexes with proper usage of indexing columns. I have come
SQL SERVER – De-fragmentation of Database at Operating System to Improve Performance
(Pinalkumar Dave) This issue was brought to me by our Sr. Network Engineer. While running operating system level de-fragmentation using either windows de-fragmentation or third party tool it always skip all the MDF file and never de-fragment them. He was wondering why this happens all the time.
Understand How Isolation Levels Work In Microsoft SQL Server
(Richard Campbell) I’m still trying to understand how isolation levels work in SQL Server. What’s confusing me now is that the Books Online says that isolation levels only affect reads. So what happens with writes? They must get locks as well, but I don’t understand why isolation levels don’t affect
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(Michael Livshitz) The ObjectDataSource control can help you significantly reduce lines of your code (and “save” your time!) that you need to write in order to bind the data-bound controls in the presentation layer and the class that retrieves data from the database. Main steps of using ObjectDataSo
SQL Server 2005 Full-Text Queries on Large Catalogs: Lessons Learned
(Ron Talmage) The observations in this paper are based on tests run in the SQL Server Customer Lab for a customer who needed to scale up full-text search to a much greater potential volume. The paper describes the customer scenario, provides an overview of SQL Server 2005 full-text concepts that bea