(Jim Ericson) When businesses negotiate price with technology vendors or consider new projects internally, they frequently demand persuasive proof of a positive return on investment as a requirement to go forward. Often described as the time it takes to recover the cost of an investment with a r
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Driving Down Expenses
(Ann C. Logue) Millions of dollars are electronically transmitted around the world every day. As the manager of MasterCard’s development relationship with Oracle, Stephen Orfei leads a team whose mission is to develop products and services that help businesses get their money faster. He joined Maste
FIX: An access violation may occur when a deadlock graph is written to the error log in SQL Server 2000
Consider the following scenario: • You enable the 1204 trace flag in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to identify SQL Server deadlock events. • A deadlock event occurs, and a deadlock graph is automatically written to the SQL Server error log.
Hacker Protection for Your Web Applications
(Caleb Sima) Your Web applications can be the most important and most vulnerable entry point into your organization, and, as such, ensuring adequate hacker protection in your Web applications can be critical. A Web application not only includes the code that creates your Web site, but also the a
Open source vs. open standards
(Maria Winslow) What is the difference between open source and open standards? Which is more important to interoperability in enterprise IT environments? (R)
Java database development with DB2 UDB, Cloudscape, and Informix Dynamic Server (IDS)
Get up-to-date on the latest advances in Java database development–this Webcast will cover JDBC, SQLJ, and server-side Java stored procedures and functions. We will look at the latest versions of IBM Cloudscape, the DB2 UDB Family of servers, and Informix, IBM’s “Dynamic Server.” Also see how Ratio
Atom 1.0 extensions, Part 1: Feed history, ordering entries, and expiration timestamps
(James Snell) In a previous article, I walked readers through an overview of the newly minted Atom 1.0 Syndication Format and provided a high-level review of the technical strengths of the standard. At the conclusion of that discussion, I briefly touched on Atom’s extensibility mechanism which is de
Forms Follow Function, but XML Doesn’t, Necessarily
(Don Fluckinger) Opinion: Large-scale, feature-rich implementations of XML forms from Adobe, IBM, and Microsoft might be an answer in search of a problem.
Using TRY…CATCH in Transact-SQL
(Himanshu Kumar Sinha) In this article, I will discuss the new feature ( TRY ……..CATCH) for errorhandling in SQL Server 2005.
Server Controls Improved
(Dino Esposito) Server controls are the building blocks of any ASP.NET application. Any change to a control’s architecture may have ramifications on the whole application — which can be both good and bad. New features added to a base class can benefit a slew of top-level controls; changes in the int