(Kevin Brown) The first article in this series will concentrate on the HtmlForm control and its child controls, deciding how we can best modify the default implementation and extend its capabilities so that it will validate to the W3C’s XHTML 1.0 and 1.1 strict standards. Additionally we’ll look at
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MSSQL Server Reporting Services: Mastering OLAP Reporting: Multiple Value Selection in a Parameter Picklist
(William Pearson) As most organizations implementing or evaluating MSSQL Server Reporting Services 2000 discovered, the application did not afford us an “out-of-the-box” way to support multiple value selections within a Report Parameter by a consumer at runtime. This caused frustration among many of
PHP Datastorage Class
(Chris Root) Many websites use databases for storing data for use by web applications. There are situations in which this is not the best solution, however. For light, moderate, or temporary storage requirements, you might prefer to use flat files, session variables, and cookies. This article will d
Weaving WebSphere: PTFs in WAS and Beyond
(Joe Pluta) To finish the (admittedly somewhat lame) analogy of health clubs, once you get a regular routine, it’s easier to keep at it. But why do Preventive Service Planning (PSP) at all? And why is it so much more complicated for WebSphere users? The answer to the first question is simply that th
Can We Integrate Visual Basic.NET, SQL Server 2000 and WMI?
(Jagadish Chaterjee) This article mainly explains how to integrate WMI with SQL Server 2000, together with the Visual Basic.NET language.
WinFX: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and XAML – You Can Start Today
(Glen Sollors) If you have ever seen a Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF, formerly ‘Avalon’) application run, you will be sold on how it will revolutionize the computer user experience. The first word of out of my mouth when I saw a demo was “Cool.” Since .COM went .BUST, almost everyon
Make Your Move
(Greg Crawley) New features in DB2 UDB v.8.1 help DBAs move tables faster. DBA’s are always looking for quick and easy ways to move tables into new tablespaces. Sometimes table moves are necessary because tables are getting too big; sometimes because grouping a set of tables in a particular table
Building Analytic Workspaces
(Dan Vlamis) The Oracle OLAP (online analytical processing) option of Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition provides advanced analytic features to help you to summarize, analyze, and calculate data faster than or in ways not possible with standard SQL. Oracle OLAP can access data stored in rela
Using Perl in PostgreSQL
(Andrew Dunstan) Most Perl users are familiar with using Perl to talk to databases. Perl’s DBI is, along with ODBC and JDBC, one of the most common and widely ported database client interfaces. The DBI driver for PostgreSQL, DBD::Pg, is very well-maintained, and quite featureful. For example, it rec
A SQLCLR Stored Procedure that Writes to a Trace File
(Andrew Novick) I’m always looking for better tools for debugging, tracing and logging. You might recall the series of tracing tools that I’ve implementing in T-SQL and that were featured in issues #1 through #7 of this newsletter. The simple stored procedure in this issue use capabilities of the