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(Philip Howard) After all these years you would assume, wouldn’t you, that database optimisers were pretty good? Companies like IBM and Oracle have been costing query plans and re-writing SQL not just for years but for decades, so you would expect that they would know what they were doing.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and ASP.NET Developers
(Patrick Santry) If you’re developing for the Web then you should familiarize yourself with some Search Engine Optimization or SEO concepts. The idea here is to make your ASP.NET application as friendly as possible for spiders, and the specific spider we’re talking about is Google.
Using WSE 3.0 Today to Secure Web Services for Tomorrow
(Julia Lerman) WSE 3.0 is the newest incarnation of Microsoft’s Web Services Enhancements, a Visual Studio API that magically transforms your ASMX web services into the complex messages that follow a number of the WS-* Specifications.
Mastering OLAP Reporting: Meet Business Needs with Matrix Dynamics, Part II
(William Pearson) As I have shown in many past articles, including Part One of this session, the Microsoft Integrated BI Solution, consisting of the MSSQL Server 2005 Database Engine, Analysis Services 2005 and Reporting Services 2005, provides unprecedented flexibility in helping implementers and d
Toward Converging Web Service Standards for Resources, Events, and Management
(Kevin Cline, Josh Cohen, Doug Davis, Donald F Ferguson, Heather Kreger, Raymond McCollum, Bryan Murray, Ian Robinson, Jeffrey Schlimmer, John Shewchuk, Vijay Tewari, and William Vambenepe) HP, IBM, Intel and Microsoft plan to develop a common set of specifications for resources, events, and managem
Associative Arrays in Oracle PL/SQL: The Professional Approach
(Jagadish Chatarji) This is the second article in a series focusing on associative arrays. In this article, we shall examine recommended methodologies for working with associative arrays efficiently.
Microsoft .NET Architecture
(Joydip Kanjilal) Microsoft .NET is a framework for distributed, portable, scalable computing. This article discusses the features of the framework and the related terminologies, provides an insight to its architecture, and then discusses ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Web Services, Remoting, and the robust secu
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