(Michael Di Stefano) Distributed computing environments are being deployed in topology and scale never before seen. As implementations multiply, this revolutionary era in computing brings with it a number of unique challenges and possibilities, such as high availability. As global firms strive to ma

(Dan Wahlin) AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is arguably one of the most hyped technology acronyms around. The primary advantage of using AJAX is that page refreshes can be minimized, allowing users to get the information they need quickly and easily through a more rich and functional interfa

(Paul Randal) I had a question this week from someone who’d heard me say at SQL Connections (paraphrasing) “database compatibility level is mostly about query parsing” and was having trouble trying to forcibly attach a 2005 or 7.0 database to a 2000 server.

(Chris Sully) In this series of articles I’m going to be looking at Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, which we’ll abbreviate to WSS3 from here on. WSS3 is the free version of SharePoint whereas Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) is its big, commercial brother. It is its brother however an

(Antony Savvas) IBM has announced a simplified Websphere Portal offering with enhanced Web 2.0 tooling and a set of tailored business-ready packages or “accelerators”.

(Maria Anderson) Are there any known issues with the Oracle 10g database locking when users log out of ADP software and not allowing them to log back in until a script is run to unlock the database? If so, is there a fix? (R)

(Jayadev D) In most cases, when there are namespace conflicts, developers tend to use the complete qualified name in the code.

(Stéphane Faroult) As I have discussed more than once, the previously outlined emulation of analytic functions is fine as long as we wisely restrain ourselves to using only the n first (or last) elements in what would have been our partition clause. This is a factor only when n is greater than 1; if

(Nicholas Chase) This six-part series demonstrates how to leverage the power of XForms in conjunction with MySQL and PHP for support processing to create an online accounting tool called X-Trapolate. Every good programming technology possesses a range of problems it excels at solving. The series hig

(Serdar Yegulalp) In SQL Server 2000, there was really only one way to create a stored procedure: as a T-SQL statement. That was the course to take in every previous edition of SQL Server. But SQL Server 2005 makes it possible to write stored procedures (and functions, triggers and a number of other