(Larry Greenemeier) Over the past few years, Oracle has been on one of the most aggressive shopping sprees the software industry has ever seen. The company may not be finished, but executives Monday paused to answer questions about Project Fusion, the crucial effort to combine the PeopleSoft, J.D. E
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XML DataSource Controls in .NET 2.0
(Jesse Liberty) As noted in previous columns, .NET 2.0 pushes most of ADO.NET into the frameworks level, and provides you with various DataSource controls to make accessing data easy. With the XML DataSource control, you can bind to an XML document just as easily as you bind to tables in a database.
Implications and Repercussions of Partial Classes in the .NET Framework 2.0
(Dino Esposito) A partial class has its source code split over multiple source files, each of which appears to contain an ordinary class definition from beginning to end. Ideal for team development, partial classes simplify coding and avoid manual file synchronization in all those situations in whic
MSSQL Server Reporting Services: Black Belt Components: Ad Hoc Sorting with Parameters
(William Pearson) In this article, we will introduce conditional formatting, once again, in a basic application – this time a sort in each of the two “directions,” and practice the creation of parameterized conditional sorting that will allow users to make runtime decisions surrounding the sorting o
Using logins, users, and roles more effectively
(Arthur Fuller) Imposing security on a database typically involves use of three database objects—logins, users, and roles. It’s ingrained in the minds of SQL Server developers to think about the following tools in this specific order: logins, users, and roles. However, every time I used logins, user
Subversion Delivers Version Control that CVS Can’t
(Wellie Chao) The designers of Subversion have created an open-source version control tool that fixes the flaws and addresses shortcomings in the popular Concurrent Versions System (CVS) version control system. The following are the most significant and visible CVS flaws that Subversion rectifies:
Sending Email from your PHP Applications
(Jason Gilmore) Communicating with website users via email is crucial to the success of any online service. The ability to deliver registration confirmations and newsletters, provide a convenient and relatively secure password recovery tool, and keep clients updated with shipping status reports are
Disaster Recovery
(Rick Boyd) More often than not, companies are deluding themselves into thinking that the tests of the DR procedures were successful. Most of these tests are staged, generally include a subset of the applications that are needed, and still there are items that are missed which do not allow for a ful
Floating Point in .NET part 1: Concepts and Formats
(Jeffrey Sax) Floating-point arithmetic is generally considered a rather occult topic. Floating-point numbers are somewhat fuzzy things whose exact values are clouded in ever growing mystery with every significant digit that is added. This attitude is somewhat surprising given the wide range of ever
Compliance’s Bright Side
(David Beulke) Regulatory requirements such as the United States’ Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 are causing extensive changes within corporations. Some of the changes alter database system fundamentals; all of them require data management