(James Tan) This article describes ways to reduce the complexity of developing complicated reports based on three high-level abstraction objects known as value, flag and connector.
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Choose Your Weapon: Fighting the Battle Against Zero-Day Virus Threats
Attacks from viruses and other malicious code can have serious consequences for your business. New, rapidly deploying threats that spread around the world in just minutes mean that simply deploying a signature-based solution is no longer good enough. You need to take additional steps immediately to
OpenSQLTrace: Automated Trace Processing and Analysis System
(Andrew Zanevsky, Chad Littlewood, Michael Hayes, Raied Idan, and Bill Nicholson) The value of data captured by traces increases significantly if you run traces on a regular basis and preserve all results for historical trend analysis. But storage space quickly becomes a constraint. Our main pro
Application integration: Use Informix 4GL with WebSphere MQ
(Claus Samuelsen) Communication between different applications is becoming increasingly important. Whether you are implementing a full-blown Service Oriented Architechture or just need to transfer data between two systems, IBM WebSphere MQ is a solid foundation for data exchange. While IBM Infor
SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Deep Dive: Turning Data into Decisions
Take advantage of the huge .NET installed base. Sign up now for the SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Deep Dive: Turning Data into Decisions one day roadshow and find out how .NET, Visual Studio 2005, and the power of SQL Server 2005 can help you add rich Business Intelligence features to your .
Fun With Amazon’s Simple Queue Service
(Jason Levitt) Amazon.com has been exposing itself again, much to the delight of developers, entrepreneurs, and media junkies. This time, they’ve revealed Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), a basic message queue service with a web services interface. Originally developed and used in-house by interna
Sepia Tone, StringLogicalComparer, and More
(Stephen Toub) My digital camera allows me to take pictures using a "sepia" filter which results in photos that look like they were taken in the late 1800s. While this is cool, I’d rather take the pictures normally and then apply this change later on. I can probably do something like this in Dig
IBM DB2 vs. Oracle: Should a developer care?
(Andrew Binstock) The release earlier this year of IBM DB2 version 8.2 (code-named Stinger) heralded several key advances in developer support for Big Blue’s flagship database. I discussed many of these here. In a nutshell, they include significant integration with Visual Studio .NET, great Java and