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Security Features in ASP.NET – Authentication
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Two way sorting of Web DataGrid
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Comparison Between VB 6.0 and VB .NET Objects
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Upgrade Guide: Oracle9i Release 2 RAC to Oracle RAC 10g Release 2 on Linux
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SQL 2005 Reporting Services Part 2
(Don Schlichting) SQL Server 2005 includes a banded reporting tool and engine called SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS). Developing reports in SSRS is similar to report building in Crystal or Microsoft Access. Reports can be viewed in a web browser, exported to a file, or embedded into a Windows fo
FIX: An error message is logged, and new diagnostics do not capture the thread stack when the SQL Server User Mode Scheduler (UMS) experiences a nonyielding thread in SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4
In Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4), new diagnostics do not capture the thread stack when the SQL Server User Mode Scheduler (UMS) experiences a nonyielding thread. Additionally, the thread context variable is not populated with the expected thread stack information. When this problem