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SQL Server 2005 Integration Services – Part 17
(Marcin Policht) Continuing the topic of the Script Component in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, to which we have dedicated our previous two articles (covering its debugging capabilities and its role as a Data Flow Source), we will now take a closer look its usefulness as a Data Flow Transform
Benchmark your Perl code to improve performance
(Mellonfire) In software design, efficiency is everything. The more efficient your code is, the faster it will run and the quicker it will respond to user commands. Inefficient, slow code usually needs to be reviewed and tweaked to make it run faster. But all of this is only possible if there ex
Kewl DB2 for z/OS Version 8 Feature Part 2b: Multi-row INSERT & FETCH Continued
(Willie Favero) Continuing on from where I left off yesterday, let’s complete the discussion about multi-row processing in DB2 V8 with a few words about multi-row INSERT. My discussion of multi-row FETCH and setting up the arrays used by multi-row processing can be found in my entry posted on Januar
ASP.NET 2.0 (I) Enhancements to Existing Controls
(Chris Sully) This article is the first in a series looking at ASP.NET 2.0 though it follows on from my earlier overview articles on the subject. In this article we’ll start with a consideration of the enhancements to existing controls that have been introduced. Many controls have gained new propert
Service-Oriented Architecture and Microsoft .NET
(John Charles) To be competitive, companies must be agile; this one has become critical for competitiveness. They constantly have to adapt their organization and environment to more and more frequent technological changes, merges and acquisitions. But technology is often expensive and difficult.
Cache Your Data: JDBC Vs. ADO.NET
(Gal Ratner) Since the data is usually physically separated from your application you need to somehow fetch and bring it to your application before it can be displayed to users, manipulated and saved back to your data source. In this article, we will compare and contrast the use of Java and .NET to
SQL Profiler: Features, functions and setup in SQL Server 2005
(Jeremy Kadlec) Trying to find the proverbial needle in the haystack of your SQL Server transactions is no small task. SQL Server Profiler not only helps you find that needle, it gives you details on all the other needles in a single interface. Profiler is truly the best native SQL Server resource t
The Oracle 10g Data Pump API Speeds Up the ETL Process
(Natalka Roshak) Consider the following scenario. You have a production system that needs a lot of data from other systems on hand during the day. The data sources that you get this data from return results slowly, and you’ve got network latency that results in slow extracts. Additionally, a fai
Develop and Test Regular Expressions with a Unit Testing Package
(Casimir Saternos) Oracle Database 10g includes a variety of new features that provide new and better ways of solving old problems. Regular expressions have been in common use among UNIX users for a long time but may not be familiar to programmers and users from other backgrounds.