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Setting up and maintaining standby servers
(Baya Pavliashvili) Standby servers are a great mechanism for ensuring the high availability of your enterprise applications. In this tip I’ll define standby server and offer options and recommendations for configuring and maintaining such servers. (R)
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(Nidhi Tiwari) The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a quantitative technique for multiple criteria decision making. It provides a convenient way to quantify the qualitative aspects thus eliminating subjectivity in the outcome. The technique begins by clearly identifying the objectives, criteria a
Make sense out of the confusing world of .NET file types
(Tony Patton) Do you ever visit a public Web site and encounter a familiar file extension in the URL and immediately recognize what was used to develop the site? Most developers can relate to this situation. While HTML is the Internet standard, you may encounter .asp and wonder why the site develope
Comparison Between VB 6.0 and VB.NET Objects
(Hannes du Preez) In Comparison between VB6 and .NET Objects Part I and Part II, I covered the differences in the Properties Windows and in the Toolboxes respectively. With this article, I will concentrate on the differences in the Visual Basic 6 Project Explorer and the Visual Basic.NET Solution Ex
Building an XML Utilities Package, XML Debugger Part 2
(Lewis R Cunningham) If you haven’t already done so, I would strongly recommend you read the start of this series and the first part of the coding before reading this entry.
SnapShot Isolation in SqlServer 2005 (Part – I)
(Abey George) Before going into SnapShot Isolation in SqlServer 2005, I thought that it will be better if I explain about SqlServer 2000 Isolation Levels and Locks. Even today, some who deal with databases don’t seem to have an adept knowledge of this. There are about 4 transaction isolation levels.
COPY_ONLY Backups in SQL Server 2005
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) Let us assume that your production server resides in New York and your Disaster recovery site is 3000 miles away, say San Francisco. Let us also assume that your backup policy in production server is a nightly full backup and transaction log backup every 15 minutes and you
Iterators in the Simplest Sense: Traversing Different Data Structures
(Alejandro Gervasio) Here we are again. Welcome to the second tutorial of the series “Iterators in the simplest sense.” Just in case you didn’t know, this series introduces Iterators in PHP 4 – PHP 5, explaining their basic concepts, and teaches you how to use them in practical projects, which can b