(Gabriel Fuchs) At a previous job, we realizeded that we needed a data warehouse. It was actually quite easy to make this decision – everyone else had one – so, therefore, we should obviously have one as well. In order to be better than everyone else, we, however, did not stop at a data warehouse. W

(Moustafa Arafa) Deploying ASP.NET 2 web site is the first issue facing the developer after finishing to create a web site is how to deploy the web site to a remote/Production server.

To stay competitive and compliant, organizations need to deliver information generated in business applications more quickly, improve internal workflow and ensure document security–all while reducing costs and providing superior products and services. (R)

(Patrick Cross and Booz Allen Hamilton) Information sharing has consistently been a significant problem across government and industry. Once IT portfolios grew beyond a few simple applications the need to share and integrate information across those applications has grown along with the increase in

(David Fells) In the first part of this series we implemented a basic sortable collection class. We used a Bubble Sort algorithm to order the elements in the collection, which came with a disclaimer regarding what a slow sort it is. This article will examine the primary sorting algorithms with code

(Doug Reilly) Last week, I was in a bookstore in New York City and saw for the first time Glenn Johnson’s new book, Programming Microsoft ADO.NET Applications – Advanced Topics. Virtually all of my work involves databases, and virtually all of my work uses ADO.NET, and so picking up Glenn’s book was

(Jagadish Chaterjee) This article is third and last in a series focusing on developing a simple DAL (Data Access Layer) for any database using ADO.NET. In this series, we consider Sybase as the database of choice for developing the DAL.

(Mike Gunderloy) Debugging in Visual Studio is a wonderful thing. You can use the tools built into the debugger to drill into the values of objects and their member variables easily. But even wonderful things can be improved, and that’s exactly what Microsoft has done with the introduction of debugg

(Dion Hinchcliffe) Now that Web 2.0 has had its mainstream media coming-out party in both Newsweek and Slate recently (here and here), I thought I’d take some time this afternoon and try to get a real sense of the prevailing winds. Before I go further, I would ask all of you with innate dislike of

(Wayne Eckerson) Most organizations today are stuck in the adolescent phase of business intelligence (BI). They’ve built a data warehouse, purchased some BI tools, and seen some uptake by end users. However, the status of their BI program is anything but certain.