(Gil Lapid Shafriri and Debra Dove) Gain a better understanding of how to develop your SQL Server Mobile applications to handle multi-user access and data synchronization with Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
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Oracle Further Orchestrates Its SOA Forays Part One: Event Summary and Market Impact
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Holes in Microsoft Office XML
(Simon St. Laurent) I’ve spent a lot of time this week rethinking Microsoft Office 2003’s XML capabilities and figuring out how I feel about them a year after writing a book on them.
Bitmap Index vs. B-tree Index: Which and When?
(Vivek Sharma) Conventional wisdom holds that bitmap indexes are most appropriate for columns having low distinct values—such as GENDER, MARITAL_STATUS, and RELATION. This assumption is not completely accurate, however. In reality, a bitmap index is always advisable for systems in which data is not
Inside SQL Server 2005
(Jeff Hadfield) Tom Rizzo, the director of product management for Microsoft SQL Server, talks about Reporting Services, SQL Server 2005, and more.
MySQL Network — All-in-one Enterprise-grade Database, Support and Services
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Introductory walkthrough of DB2 v8.1
(Anil Mahadev) In this simple introduction, I will walk you through IBM’s DB2 UDB v8.1 database management system. Even if you are a basic MS Access user, I’ll have you up and running in no time! (R)
A Sample Solution for Records Management with Process Choreography
(Bart Jacob, Jan Antos, Budi Darmwan, Mike Kerzee and Therese Sroujian) This IBM Redbook describes a sample implementation of a complex solution that addresses a key challenge being faced by many enterprises today. Document and record management has always been a difficult (and often manual) proces
Using .NET To Boost Your Microsoft Office Developer Productivity
(Alan Zeichick) Nobody beats the sheer productivity of developers targeting the Microsoft Office System. Whether you’re building applications for Word or Excel, well-established platforms like Visual Basic for Applications let you hit the ground running—and solve many real-world business problems qu
Code Snippets in VS.NET 2005 – Part 1
(Saravana Kumar) During application development, you might come across a situation where you need to write the same code repeatedly with just a few changes. For example, you may write code to fetch data from the database many times in your application. In this case, you will open a text file, wh