(Allan Mitchell) In this article we are going to assume a few things about the reader as we want to concentrate as much as possible on the Script Component itself and not the peripheral stuff.
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9 Steps to an Automated Trace
(Steven Berringer) Profiler, SQL Server’s built-in tracing feature, is an invaluable tool for performance tuning and debugging SQL Server applications. With it, you can trace every request a database application makes to SQL Server and use that data to improve performance. For example, if you ru
Review: Indepth for SQL Server
(Hiren Khakharia) Indepth for SQL server is a performance monitoring software by Veritas. I recently had an opportunity to try out the version 1.5. Newer version is just released and hasn’t tried that yet but this should give an idea on what Product has to offer. (R)
Extending Your Markup: An XML Tutorial
(André Bergholz) By now, no doubt, you’ve heard the acronym XML. You’ve probably also heard that XML (a) is simple and (b) will solve all your problems. Sounds like magic, doesn’t it? But then you look a little deeper and encounter more three-letter acronyms, like DTD, XSL, RDF, and DOM. You begin
Setting up Oracle Database 10g and PHP on Mac OS X
(Matt Rohrer) As announced in July, Oracle has made the Oracle Database 10g Early Adopter Release for Mac OS X available for download. The following guide will help you set up a development workstation with the Oracle Database, PHP compiled with OCI support, and a more productive wrapper for SQL*Plu
Unearth the New Data Mining Features of Analysis Services 2005
(Jamie MacLennan) As the Beta 2 of SQL Server 2005 begins to sink in, it’s time to talk about some of the new features it has in store for database developers. To whet your appetite, there’s no better place to start than with the new data mining features of SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services, whe
Oracle Administration – Part 2
(Steve Callan) Part one of this series covered some important aspects of Oracle administration (MetaLink and licensing). Part two highlights the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) and Oracle sales/reselling. Most DBAs will not have occasion to work directly with either of these programs, even though they m
Oracle BPEL Process Manager
(Brian Barbash) Service-oriented architecture (SOA), while its underpinnings have been around for years, has recently become one of the most talked about topics in the IT industry. The interest in SOAs is largely due to the emergence of Web services and their ability to expose business applications
All Roads Lead to RDF
(Edd Dumbill) August. Season of long, hot, lazy days, and not much else. While the vacation of all things XML continues, those eager RDF folks are still hard at work. Consequently, the XML-Deviant this week focuses largely on RDF-related topics.
SQL Server Profiler: Bringing Teams Together
(Brian Moran) I’ve been writing about SQL Server Profiler frequently over the past few weeks, so you’re probably aware that I think Profiler is a great tool that’s under-utilized by development and DBA teams. Several readers have sent me interesting ideas about integrating Profiler into the deve