(Clint Boulton) IBM has acquired partner DataPower in a bid that will launch Big Blue into the application-oriented networking market Cisco was expecting to dominate.
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Locate All Stored Procedures and Their Objects/SQL Tables
(Daljinder Singh) Sometimes, for documentation purposes, you need to locate all the stored procedures and objects/SQL tables upon which they depend.
A Toad without Warts: Quest’s Toad Product for DB2 Hits the Streets – Part 2
(Paul C. Zikopoulos) The Toad product from Quest Software is a well-known database tool that helps to improve the productivity of application developers and database administrators (DBAs) working with some of the world’s most popular relational databases. In September 2005, Quest Software made some
Is LINQ the future of database development?
(Arthur Fuller) The LINQ (.NET Language Integrated Query) Project is a Microsoft initiative to standardize data access across not only data sources but also development. A number of developers who have examined LINQ have proclaimed that it will revolutionize database application development.
Basic Debugging Features In Visual Studio 2005
(Scott) The debugger in Visual Studio 2005 is an amazing piece of software. You can debug C# and C++, Visual Basic and VBScript. Step over managed code, native code, mobile code, and T-SQL code. You can debug locally, or you can debug remotely. You can debug assemblies hosted by SQL Server, and Java
Information Life Cycle Management (ILM) for Data Warehousing
(Robert Thompson) Record data warehouse growth continues. Some estimates project in excess of 100 percent per year – and nearly a third of data warehouses in North America exceed a terabyte in size already. DW managers are inevitably investigating information life cycle management (ILM) strategies a
Doing the Time Warp: Manipulating Date and Time in PHP 5 (Sample Chapter)
(Christian Wenz) Most of the time, the date and time functionalities of PHP 5 are used for printing out the current date and time—to pretend that the web page is up to date (you would be surprised how many larger websites actually use this). But apart from that, working with date and time in PHP off
Date processing in Informix Dynamic Server
(Jacques Roy) A date is a complex piece of information. It represents a specific day of the year. You can group dates together by day of the week, month, quarter, and so on. The grouping allows you to compare results for specific periods from year to year.
A Quick Tour of Themes in ASP.NET 2.0
(Dino Esposito) It’s much easier to build a rich user interface into your Web application in ASP.NET 2.0 than it was in previous versions. Master Pages let you build pages based on existing templates of markup and code. ASP.NET 2.0 wizards make implementing navigation easier. In addition, you can ad
Column Encryption for SQL Server and MSDE
The main purpose of the APIs is to protect columns, fields or rows from certain users who are otherwise authorized to access a table. For example, while you may want everyone to be able to access the customer table, you may want only certain users or roles to access the credit card column. You can a