From aerospace to retail, from hospitals to government agencies, organizations are implementing sensor-based computing and communications initiatives. Their goals reach well beyond industry mandates, to include transforming internal and external business processes based on new sources of informati
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(Tareq Shaheen) Exceptions, indicators of abnormal conditions that disrupt the normal flow of a program, are a prominent fixture of the Java language. You have to handle exceptions to write a useful Java program.
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(Sahil Malik) My previous article covered the basics of CLR integration in SQL Server 2005. It compared CLR inside SQL Server 2005 with TSQL and extended stored procedures, and discussed the judicious use of CLR in lieu of other available choices. This article takes the discussion further, discussin
An Introduction to VB.NET and Database Programming – Introduction
(Chas Profitt) I am a beginner. I wanted to share some experiences with other beginners. The first frustration we have is finding a book that teaches us what we want to learn. When looking at beginners books we all want to avoid the books that are too simple, but can’t yet crack the secret code the
List Control Items and Attributes
(Scott Mitchell) ASP.NET 1.x provides four Web controls that serve as list controls: –The DropDownList, –The CheckBoxList, –The RadioButtonList, and –The ListBox
When To Use SQLCLR, And When Not To
(Roger Jennings) It would be surprising if there were any .NET developers or SQL Server DBAs who aren’t aware by now that SQL Server 2005 and its Express edition support an in-process implementation of the .NET 2.0 CLR. Early Microsoft whitepapers and marketing materials promoted the capability to e
The Ntbackup.exe operation may break the differential backup chain of a SQL Server database and may invalidate the differential backups when you perform a snapshot backup of the database
The Ntbackup.exe utility uses the Virtual Device Interface (VDI) to perform a snapshot backup of a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database. When you use this utility, the operation may break the differential backup chain of the SQL Server database and invalidate the differential backups.
MySQL Archive Engine—Data Retention
(Blane Warrene) I have spent the majority of my technology years in and around financial services dealing with issues of data security, retention, archiving and reporting. Though the finance sector is considered heavily regulated, so are other industries, such as health care and government.
IBM launches printer with Power capabilities
(Luke Meredith) To boost printing capabilities at the enterprise level, IBM recently unveiled the next generation of its Infoprint family of high-speed printers, including an optional Power-based controller Big Blue said will significantly increase the amount of horsepower needed for high-end print
Processing Atom 1.0
(Uche Ogbuji) In the fast-moving world of weblogs and Web-based marketing, the approval of the Atom Format 1.0 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as a Proposed Standard is a significant and lasting development. Atom is a very carefully designed format for syndicating the contents of weblo