(Joyce Coleman and Ronen Grosman) Learn about server-assisted client redirect (SACR) and how it can be used to build applications that are highly scalable across DB2 servers and WebSphere Application Server clients. Learn, also, which applications will benefit most from SACR, how to partition data a
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Take Command with AJAX
(Stoyan Stefanov) Do you want to build more dynamic, responsive, desktop-like Web applications like Gmail and Google Maps? Then this article is for you. It guides you through the AJAX basics and through the process of building a simple AJAX application. That application is named WebConsole and, in e
Get Started With Data Mining Now
(Warren Thornthwaite) Data mining has come into its own over the past decade, taking a central role in many businesses. We’re all the subject of data mining dozens of times a day—from the direct mail we receive to the fraud-detection algorithms that scrutinize our every credit card purchase.
SQL Server 2005 – SQL Server Integration Services – Part 10
(Marcin Policht) In the previous article of our series dedicated to new features in SQL Server 2005 Integrated Services, we started exploring methods of incorporating Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) based data into the package flow control. As explained, this functionality has been implemen
Inventorying SQL Servers on your network
(Hilary Cotter) As a SQL Server DBA, you must not only be concerned with the SQL Servers you manage, but also with the non-production machines running Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop and Personal editions. (R)
What Is Web Analytics
(Eric T. Peterson) Web analytics is a component of online business that has been slowly gaining momentum over the last half-dozen years, one whose time, many say, has officially come, based on Google’s acquisition of Urchin Software in 2005. In general terms, web analytics is the process of coll
Reporting on your database with a single SQL command (or why I love UNION ALL)
(Chris Eaton) This is going to be my last posting on monitoring your database with SQL scripts. And I’ll end it off with a big bang (or at least the biggest SQL statement I’ve written in quite some time). I’m sure most of you have a bag of scripts that you run from time to time to check the status […]
Generating Random Passwords with ASP.NET
(Scott Mitchell) In one of the consulting projects I’m working on a website that has user accounts (like most every non-trivial Web application). User accounts for this site can be created in one of two ways: by the user himself, in which case that user provides their email address and password; or
Configuration Station
(Scott Swigart) It’s common to have applications that need to load and store configuration information. Applications may expose options to the users, track recently opened files, remember previous form sizes, or more. By writing some simple VB.NET code, you can easily add this kind of configuration
Defense in Depth
(Don Kiely) I recently spoke at Whidbey Blast, a one-day, Visual Studio 2005 conference hosted by the Northern Colorado .NET Users Group. I did the keynote and a session about MSBuild, then sat in on some of the other sessions that covered a variety of upcoming technologies.