(Don Kiely) An important part of learning any development platform, whether it is a development platform like Visual Studio using C# or Visual Basic .NET or a server environment like SQL Server or Microsoft Exchange, is learning about the features built-in and available in the environment. There is
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Database Interaction with PL/SQL, part 3
(Jagadish Chatarji) In our previous article, we have seen how to display more than one row using a FOR loop. Now, we will see the same program being used with WHILE loop. Let us go through the following example first.
Introduction to C# for DBA’s
(graz) As SQL Server 2005 rolls out DBA’s are going to be forced to learn either C# or Visual Basic or both. Until now these were client side languages and not knowing them had little impact on your job. And if you write code in these languages your going to have to learn to use Visual Studio. This
Printing Reports in .NET – Introduction
(Mike Mayer) Printing a document programmatically is quite involved. Using the ReportPrinting library presented here, you’ll be able to print reports with multiple sections, with very little code.
Oracle Recasts Its ID Management Software
(Clint Boulton) Oracle has issued new identity management software that protects data shipped on products from different vendors.
IBM DB2 Universal Database and the .NET Developer? Absolutely! Part 1 – The IBM Explorer
(Paul C. Zikopoulos) Did you know that the IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) product has arguably the best support for .NET in today’s database industry? In this series of articles, I want to take you through some of the tooling productivity benefits that a DB2 UDB developer can leverage when pro
Free SQL Server monitoring with Event Forwarding
(Kevin Kline) I’ve worked with a lot of database platforms over the years — everything from Oracle to DB2 UDB, MySQL to PostgreSQL, Sybase to SQL Server. One of the things I’ve always enjoyed about SQL Server is the genuine ease of administration that Microsoft has built into its native toolkit.
Develop more quickly by re-using databases
(Arthur Fuller) Depending on your job specs, you may work solely with SQL Server, or you may use SQL along with various front-end applications, written in .NET, Java, or Delphi. In such languages, you are accustomed to the concept of reusability. However, SQL developers rarely (if ever) think of
Experts say Microsoft’s XML play won’t backfire
(Matt Hines) Conventional wisdom has long held that if Microsoft were to embrace XML as its default file format for Office and discard the proprietary underpinnings that have ostensibly handcuffed customers to its products, businesses might jump at the chance to move to other software providers, or
High Finance Learns a New Language
(Alan Radding) Meet the new addition to the XML family, XBRL. eXensible Business Reporting Language represents another derivative of XML and promises to streamline the integration of business reports and automate the corresponding financial and business analysis. Although the initial uses of XBRL fo