(Mark Goetsch) XMI is the standard that everyone has heard about but few are sure what to do with. Beginning with this article, I will demonstrate some interesting value-added ideas on the use of this standard. In future articles I will use XMI to grab information about assets from UML diagrams,
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Executing the result set
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) SQL Server Database administrators often generate SQL Statements and execute the generated SQL statement in order to simplify certain tasks. It has always been a twin operation. This article illustrates how to use un-documented stored procedures to execute the generated SQL
Finally some config parms you care about
(Chris Eaton) I’ve posted two sets of config parms that you shouldn’t have to touch. Now let me go into the ones that you should care about and/or ones that you will probably touch at one point or another.
Create a histograph in SQL Server
(Arthur Fuller) Star ratings are often used in film, hotel, and restaurant ratings. However, I worked on a project recently that used the star ratings scale to identify how critical a problem is; for instance, the more stars, the more urgent it was that the problem be addressed. This led me to wonde
Marc with Monty at LinuxTag 2005
(Arjen Lentz) Marc Delisle is one of the lead developers of the very popular phpMyAdmin project, a web/browser-based tool for MySQL Administration. I talked with him about MySQL, phpMyAdmin (of course), and being a developer in general.
Code Snip: TSQL Search and Replace Text Field
In this SQL code snippet we go over a method to do a search and replace on text fields within a SQL database. This code came in particularly handy when converting over from DNN 1.x to DNN 2.x where the portal directories changed from a long hex based GUID to a simple integer value.
Oasis to Unveil SOA Committee
(Darryl K. Taft) The organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards this week will announce a new technical committee focused on service-oriented architecture blueprints.
An XML-based information architecture for learning content, Part 2: A DITA content pilot
(Robert Bernard and John P. Hunt) Find out how topic-based DITA XML can provide the basis for developing an information architecture for single-sourced XML learning content. Part 1 of this two-part series presented a set of extensions to DITA XML that provide the starting point for a unifying co
Best Practices for Problem Resolution and Production Support of .NET Applications
An effective .NET application support strategy is absolutely critical to minimize the risk of deploying .NET applications. To help, this paper: 1. Identifies the main components of the Microsoft .NET architecture 2. Outlines the most common .NET application problems 3. Presents strategi
Build a Framework for Managing Distributed Transactions in Three-tier Applications
(Bruno Zambetti) One of the best features of developing COM+ based applications in standard three-tier presentation, business, and data access (DAL) layers is the simplicity of managing transactions distributed between the application’s layers. I’m not referring to the canonical definition of “distr