(Baya Pavliashvili) Microsoft Analysis Services (MSAS) offers a variety of useful wizards to get you up-to-speed with building dimensions and cubes. In fact, the wizards are very useful and make the life of a cube architect easier. However, there is much functionality that isn’t available through wi
Other News
Leveraging MySQL skills to learn DB2 Express: DB2 versus MySQL administration and basic tasks
(Allan Tham) Mananging diverse databases is a way of life for most database administrators. It’s rarely the case for DBAs to simply manage a homogeneous set of databases. Often, in a corporate data center, you will have various back-end repositories such as data in the form of spreadsheets, images,
Manage Data With VS 2005
(Roger Jennings) The Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap promised that Visual Studio 2005 would “radically enhance the experience of manipulating and retrieving data” by simplifying “data source design from within the development environment” (see Additional Resources). Planned UI enhancements include
dbObject – Database code generation using attributes
(wduros1) This is a sample framework that I wrote. It works basically like a poor man’s OR tool, generating VB.NET code from a database table, and using attributes to control updates and inserts.
Inheritance, Aggregation, and Containment
COM reusability in the .NET Framework is accomplished through inheritance. COM types can participate in inheritance as a base class. Use the inheritance, aggregation, or containment models under the circumstances in the following box.
VB.NET and Recursion
(Dan Mabbutt) Recursion is a valuable programming technique and when a programming problem requires this technique, nothing else quite works. But there is a hidden trap in recursion that you need to know about: It can eat memory resources like nothing else. Here’s why.
Make your Classic ASP code work like in ASP.NET
(Christian Calderon) With the Classic ASP Framework you will be able to structure your ASP pages in the the same way you would do it using ASP.NET. The Framework is 100% event driven and includes most of the controls found in ASP.NET such as the TextBox, Label, GenericHTML, DropDown, CheckBox, Check
Accessing data from dynamically created controls, using ASP.NET 2.0 callback
(vineyard) While developing with ASP.NET 2.0, I ran into a situation where I needed to create controls dynamically. As usual, I started looking for best practice methods by searching the websites and blogs I often turn to. Every example I found talked about the need to recreate the dynamically creat
Comparing SQL Server 2005 and IBM DB2 v8.2 as a Database Platform
A well-known developer in the Visual Studio and Microsoft .NET community compares and contrasts SQL Server 2005 with IBM DB2 UDB 8.2, from the perspective of a Visual Studio 2005 developer. This study compares the core technologies used by both SQL Server 2005 and DB2 UDB 8.2, such as .NET Framework
XML for Analysis: A Sneak Peek Inside the Skunk Works
(Brian King) Imagine a world where the potentials of business intelligence are more pervasive and more accessible. Thanks to an initiative that’s steadily gathering steam, that reality may not be far off.