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Implementing an XML Section Handler
(Paul Kimmel) For years I’ve been doing contract software development for companies in North America. Somehow I seem to spend winters on the west coast and summers on the east coast. While on the west coast I like to get down to Las Vegas and play some Blackjack. Of course, winning is more desirable
Beginner’s Guide to Crystal Reports, Part I: Winforms
(tvmogul) The company I own provides custom software solutions to Fortune 500 companies in Los Angeles, CA and Miami, FL for C# and VB .NET Winform and WebForm applications. We can provide a Web or Winform app that would take six programmers a year to complete in just days, thereby saving our client
Stored procedure: Search character columns for a given string
(Brian Walker) This tip continues the system stored procedure series with a routine to find occurrences of a string in the character columns of selected tables. (R)
Monitoring rollback progress
(QIANGHUA MA) When a large transaction takes a long time to rollback, it is good to know how much of the rollback is done and estimate how long it is going to take. Given the session’s sid, it can be done with the simple statement below, tested on Oracle9i. When a transaction is rolling back, the t.
Building an Image Keyword System
(Ziran Sun) Unlike text-based file formats (HTML, XML, plain text and even PDF and MS Word documents), image files aren’t made up of text. This makes searching for an image file by keyword difficult. Instead of being able to simply open the file to see what words it contains, we’re stuck looking at
Minimizing the need to restore a backup
(Douglas Reilly) The second installment of this series discussed the cost of maintaining systems with various levels of downtime, ways data can be lost, and what constitutes a backup. In this installment, I discuss how to configure your hardware to minimize the need to restore a backup.
The More Things Change
(Micah Dubinko) A lot of staying on top of XML is just keeping up with two kinds of things: those that change, and those that stay the same. Plenty of both can be found on the xml-dev mailing list and other discussions within the community. This week, XML-Deviant takes a retrospective look back as f
Unsupported tuning options for some editions of SQL Server 2005 CTP 16 and of SQL Server 2000
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Books Online incorrectly lists the editions of SQL Server that are supported by the Database Engine Tuning Advisor graphical user interface (GUI) and the dta utility.
Transparent Data Encryption
(Arup Nanda) It’s your organization’s worst nightmare: Someone has stolen backup tapes of your database. Sure, you built a secure system, encrypted the most sensitive assets, and built a firewall around the database servers. But the thief took the easy approach: He took the backup tapes, ostensibly