(Stephen Swoyer) What do IT organizations have on tap business intelligence-wise in 2006? A whole lot of SQL Server 2005, for starters: With so much pent-up demand, many SQL shops will make the move to Microsoft’s next-gen database this year.
Other News
WSRF: Accessing stateful resources with Web services
(Daniel Rubio) If there is mantra to developing applications on the Web it’s that of being a stateless medium, something that is due to the inherent design behind its base protocol: HTTP. However, conventional wisdom has shown that most interactions between client and server require maintaining some
Siebel Shareholders To Vote On Oracle Deal Next Month
(Barbara Darrow) Siebel Systems stockholders can vote on the pending sale of the company to Oracle at a meeting scheduled for Jan. 31, 2006, Siebel said.
Tips for Securing your .NET Web Applications
(Jesse Smith) Firewalls and anti-spyware have stopped a lot of hacking on remote ports, but one port still remains unprotected, and is becoming an increasingly popular target of malicious users. HTTP Port 80 — the one that serves web applications and services — is unprotected by firewalls, because t
Writing XML using JavaScript
(christophilus) My most recent project makes heavy use of remote scripting (or what some people might call AJAX). As such, I wanted an easy way to write XML from JavaScript so that it could be sent to my server. Now, there might be a very simple way of doing this, but I don’t know it if there is. So
Generate Thumbnail Images from PDF Documents
(Jonathan Hodgson) This article presents VB.NET code to create thumbnail images from a directory of Adobe Acrobat PDF documents.
How to Build a Data Warehouse
(Ken Pohl) Building a data warehouse has become fairly common in today’s world but with varying degrees of success. The reason for the mixed results is due to the complexity of building the data warehouse in addition to the level of competency of the participants involved.
MDX Set Functions: The DRILLUPMEMBER() Function
(William Pearson) In this article, we will continue our examination, begun in Set Functions: The DRILLDOWNMEMBER() Function, of the MDX surrounding drilling up and down within our Analysis Services cubes. As we have noted, drilling up or down occurs along the lines of drilling paths that are defined
Installing and using phpMyAdmin to manage MySQL databases
(Vincent Danen) Management of MySQL databases can be fairly straightforward—with the right tools. Using the MySQL command-line client requires a fairly intimate knowledge of MySQL in particular, and the SQL language in general. Not only that, but depending on the size of your terminal, the output of
Data Stewardship Framework – Part 4
(David Marco) This article is the fourth installment of an ongoing series of articles on the Data Stewardship Framework. In this month’s installment we will conclude our discussion on the most common data stewardship activities.