(Michael Rowan) For IT organizations struggling to protect corporate data in the face of shrinking backup windows and increasing data volumes, hot backup appeared to offer some relief. In his technical white paper “Achieving Atomic Database Recovery” Revivio CTO Michael Rowan takes a closer look at
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Incorporating SQL Server Reporting Services into your Web Site
(Don Franke) This article discusses a pretty simple combination of C#, Javascript, an IFRAME, and SQL Server Reporting Services to create a one-click web page for viewing all the reports for your web application.
IBM WebSphere Everyplace Access V5 Handbook for Developers and Administrators Volume II: Application Development
(Juan Rodriguez, George Kroner, Gianfranco Rutigliano, Sung-Ik Son and Guillermo Villavicencio) This IBM Redbook is part of a series of four volumes related to WebSphere Everyplace Access Version 5.0. These Redbooks will help you plan, install, administer and develop mobile applications to run in a
SOA Made Simple
(Rich Salz) Regular readers of this column might notice that I’ve spent a lot of time on WSDL. There’s a reason for this: after XML and SOAP, I firmly believe that service description is the most important component of designing, building, and deploying heterogeneous web services.
For Oracle, it’s all about the ID
(Jack Loftus) Oracle is getting quite used to the acquisition environment that analysts predicted could dominate the tech business in 2005. (R)
Randomize a Resultset in SQL
In the following code snippet we show you how to randomize the result set on the SQL Server. In many cases you may wish to randomly return a set records. For example, in one application we wanted to return five records, but have them returned in a random pattern for a banner ad application on a Webs
Accessing Resources: New Web Service Application Patterns for a Service-Oriented World
(Paul Lipton and Igor Sedukhin) Mae West said, “When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.” But, sometimes, when choosing between two equally appealing options, the best policy is to take both. WS-ResourceFramework and WS-Transfer, two new specifications f
FIX: Restoring transaction log files takes longer than expected in SQL Server 2000
It takes more time than expected to restore the transaction log files in SQL Server 2000. The transaction log restore operation may take 100 times longer or more than a typical restore operation. For example, you may experience that a 100 MB transaction log file now takes 20 minutes to be restored i
Xamlon Out to Connect Flash to .NET
(Susan Kuchinskas) Software maker Xamlon is looking to let Microsoft developers write Flash applications in their native language.
Detecting The State of a SQL Server Agent Job
(Gregory A. Larsen) How do you determine if a SQL Server Agent Job is running? Is there a way to automate the process of determining if a SQL Server Agent job is running? What automated approach is there to determine what step is being processed for a given SQL Server Agent job? Is there an easy way