(Dina Fleet Berry) With the use of the Internet as its own user interface, data enters the database via a number of ways: windows application, web application, and web service. It is no longer safe to put the business rules at the application level or expect the rules at the level to be implemented
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Lesson 1 SQL Server 2005 Overview
(Vidya Vrat Agarwal) Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (code named “Yukon”) extends the performance, reliability, availability, programmability, and ease of use of SQL Server 2000. SQL Server 2005 includes several new features that make it an excellent database platform. It also includes many enhancements a
We are getting closer to an End-of-Service data for DB2 Version 7
(Willie Favero) The number one DB2 Version 7 question I have been receiving lately is “When will DB2 V7 go out of service”. Up until now, I have been talking around the answer. However, on Monday (January 23, 2006), IBM finally gave a hint as to when V7 might actually go out of service.
Normalize Data Using Views and Triggers (2 of 2)
(Payton Byrd) This is a continuation of the previous entry. It was too long to fit in one entry!
Scripting Flickr with Python and REST
(Uche Ogbuji) Flickr probably needs no introduction for readers of this column. It’s a hugely popular social-network site owned by Yahoo, focusing on sharing of photographs. It embodies most of the the current web buzzwords, including tagging, web feeds, AJAX, and accessibility to scripts. Flick
Oracle 10g Automatic Storage Management (ASM), Part 3: Advanced Features
(Jim Czuprynski) The previous article in this series presented complete demonstrations of how to set up an ASM instance in both Linux and Windows NT, as well as how to use Oracle 10g’s Enterprise Manager (EM) to monitor and manage an ASM instance. This article will focus on ASM instance administrati
XML sub-tree processing in .NET Framework 1.1
(Paulo Morgado) This article will show you how to process XML sub-trees when using XmlReaders and XmlWriters in the .NET Framework 1.1.
Get All Your Devs In A Row With Visual Studio 2005 Team System
(Chris Menegay) Software development is generally recognized as a difficult process. Numerous studies have been conducted and volumes of books written on how to improve the process of developing applications to yield better and more consistent results. The difficulty has never been in coming up
Microsoft Computing: Visual Studio .NET 2005 Programming
(Chris Peters) Last month’s article gave an overview of Visual Studio .NET 2005’s new team environment capabilities, SQL Server 2005, and Microsoft’s remarkable one-year pricing policy. This month, I cover some of the enhancements that Microsoft has made to the Visual Studio 2005 Interactive Dev
Subtleties in Providing a Read-Only User Interface
(Scott Mitchell) A common pattern in data-driven Web applications is that of the read-only user interface. Often a website contains a page that displays records from a database that, by default, the visitor can edit. However, there are times when the data is not editable, and needs to be displayed i