(Kevin Burton) RAID is dying. Shocked? The prediction might be a bit early for some folks. It’s still somewhat conventional for some people to think that RAID is a conservative way to scale your IO.
Other News
LINQ and XML programming in Visual Basic 9
(Brian Eastwood) As Visual Basic 9 nears its year-end release, Microsoft is making a concerted effort to introduce developers to its new features — notably the Language Integrated Query, or LINQ, but also improved XML support and more intuitive IntelliSense. (R)
Analysis Services Processing Best Practices
(Denny Lee, Nicholas Dristas and Carl Rabeler) The recommendations in this white paper provide best practices for processing in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services. These performance optimizations are based on real-world implementations with some of our top customers and partners who use SQL
Oracle Session Tracing Part IV
(James F. Koopmann) In Part III we left off displaying the enabled traces and statistic gatherings we enabled through the DBMS_MONITOR package.
Partner TechTip: According to Recent IBM Announcements, Query/400 Is Outdated
(Tom Huntington) Do you provide your users with a modern “look and feel” for their System i data? Are your users telling you that green-screen reports are unacceptable? Is your backlog of text-based reports overwhelming? Is your data warehouse project over budget, past due, and unsatisfying to users
Text Metrics in the .Net Framework, Part I
(Peter Aitken) I think that the tools that the .Net Framework provides for text output are truly impressive. Even so, the precise positioning of text remains problematic. This is the first of two articles that explore tools and techniques for positioning text output. Let’s start with some background
Debunking GROUP BY Myths
(Roland Bouman) There is a popular myth about the SQL GROUP BY clause. The myth holds that ‘standard SQL’ requires columns referenced in the SELECT list of a query to also appear in the GROUP BY clause, unless these columns appear exclusively in an aggregated expression. MySQL is often accused of vi
Enterprise Application Integration with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006: Part 1
(Rick Garibay) Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is a collection of architectural principles combined to integrate new and existing applications both within the enterprise and in business to business or partner integration scenarios.
Put XHTML 2 to work now
(Bob DuCharme) The XHTML 2 specification isn’t finished, but it already has many advantages over XHTML 1, including a greater structural richness that will make it more viable than its predecessor as an editorial format to serve as the central schema for a single-source publishing system. Without wa
A Case of Invalid Viewstate
(Tess Ferrandez) Last week I was helping a colleague of mine with a viewstate case that turned out to be pretty interesting…