(Douglas Reilly) Hilary Cotter is the first Database Geek of the Week who lives in my neck of the woods, in Central N.J. I met him at one of the user group-related events—a dinner gathering of geeks, as I recall—and was recently reacquainted with him when he spoke in the class just before mine at th
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Log Events and Pipeline Events
(Ashvini Sharma) The Data Flow task (internally and in the object model also called the ‘Pipeline’) logs some pretty interesting information that describe the internal scheduler.
Advise and Consent
(Howard Goldberg) One of DB2’s most advanced autonomic features, the DB2 Design Advisor analyzes performance options and makes recommendations faster than any human. The final decisions, though, are all up to you.
FIX: You may receive error message 701, error message 802, and error message 17803 when many hashed buffers are available in SQL Server 2000
In Microsoft SQL Server 2000, you may receive error message 701, error message 802, and error message 17803 when many hashed buffers are available. These error messages are out-of-memory errors. Typically, this problem occurs on computers that are based on the 64-bit architecture that have a larger
SAML 2.0: The Holy Grail of identity management, part 1
(Preston Gralla) There are many roadblocks to the widespread use of Web services, but chief among them are security and authentication issues. Unless business partners can rely on authenticating each other, and unless businesses can rely on authenticating users, Web services will remain an interesti
Web services programming tips and tricks: Handle namespaces in SOAP messages you create by hand
(Russell Butek) Gain a thorough understanding of how WSDL maps to SOAP. Under normal circumstances, you don’t have to worry about namespaces in the SOAP message. But there are times when you must. This tip prepares you for those times when you have to create your SOAP message by hand and deal wi
IBM Data Integration Customers Parse Good Tools from Hype
(Lisa Vaas) It’s a food-processing company. Like lots of companies in these days of consolidation, it worried about melding two merged companies’ collections of databases, legacy applications and data sets.
Integrating Microsoft Access DB, SQL Reporting Services and Visual Studio .NET
(Anand Santhanam) In this article I would like to demonstrate how we can leverage the SQL Reporting Services feature on to a Microsoft Access database using Visual Studio .NET as IDE. Let me initiate my discussion with a brief introduction to the SQL Reporting Services and its classical features.
Localization Practices for .NET 2.0: It’s Still About The Architecture
(Michele Leroux Bustamante) In the interest of localization, there are plenty of details to deliberate to insure that presentation and formatting are accurate, that stored data can be retrieved for the correct culture, and that transmission of data over the wire retains integrity when processed by a
Type converters, your friendly helpers!
(Klaus Salchner) You may not have written yet your own type converter. But any time you developed a web form or windows form using the Visual Studio .NET designer or used the view state architecture of ASP.NET you have relied on the help of a type converter. As the name already states, type converte