(Barrie Sosinsky) There are some good reasons why you may want to explore using heterogeneous replication, but the best reason is that it allows an administrator to offer SQL Server to clients whose companies have a critical investment in other data systems. (R)
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The Linux Letter: DB2
(Barry L. Kline) The AS/400 is dead, the iSeries is dying, and before long, so will OS/400 and i5/OS be dead.
Six Basic Interrogatives Design Framework, Part 3: 6BI and Business Performance Management
(Wayne Kurtz) In two previous articles published on dataWarehouse.com, I described the Six Basic Interrogatives (6BI) Design Framework. In the first article, 6BI was described as an approach to designing databases that support business intelligence applications. In the second article, I gave a v
MDX Essentials: The CROSSJOIN() Function: Breaking Bottlenecks
(William Pearson) In this article, we will return to a function we introduced in an earlier article, CROSSJOIN(), whose mission it is to combine two sets of dimension members into one. We will discuss how CROSSJOIN() works in general, and then discuss how its performance can become an issue in mediu
SEC Opens Door To XML Data
Securities regulators want to see whether a new approach to identifying bits of electronic information will make life easier for investors and public companies.
Data Modeling & Enterprise Project Management Part 5: Estimation – Considering Effect of Denormalization / Normalization
(Amit Bhagwat) Data modeling is no doubt one of the most important and challenging aspects of developing, maintaining, augmenting and integrating typical enterprise systems. More than 90% of functionality of enterprise systems is centered round creating, manipulating and querying data. It therefore
Integrated High Availability is Needed
(Fermin Castro) With an increasing number of applications deployed on intranet and Internet environments, high availability has shifted from a mission-critical application requirement to a requirement for all deployments. End-user productivity has lately become more and more critical for every compa
The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Productivity Tips for Crystal Reports and .NET
(Kevin S. Goff) Although Crystal Reports provides many outstanding capabilities to help build and deliver sophisticated presentation output, I’ll present a proven collection of reusable practices and methodologies that you can apply across most reporting projects to add that extra sparkle to your so
Study: Few bugs in MySQL database
(Robert Lemos) A source-code analysis of the MySQL database, a popular open-source program at the heart of many Web sites, revealed few bugs compared with the number found in commercial code, testing company Coverity said.
The Silent Soundtrack
(John E. Simpson) Like many hearing-impaired movie fans (and more than a few with normal hearing), I’ve gotten used to seeking out movies whose packaging displays the little National Captioning Institute logo (a registered trademark).