Editorials

Editorials

Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation

Featured Article(s) Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation With strong emphasis on declarative programming, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) formerly code named "Avalon", stands out as one of the most widely popular components added to the new versions of Microsoft .NET Framework for designing and developing applications visually stunning and rich user interfaces. This is the first in the series of articles […]

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Some Simple T-SQL Programming Benefits of SQL Server 2008

Featured Article(s) Some simple T-SQL programming benefits of SQL 2008 The following article list some simple but very useful benefits for upgrading to SQL 2008 that makes T-SQL use easier. Its a good practice to use these new T-SQL enhancements. Working with Idera, SQL Sentry and Others? We need your feedback! We’re working with VendorRate to produce community-oriented and provided […]

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Maintenance Plans Gotchas SQL Server 2005

Featured Article(s) Maintenance Plans Gotchas SQL Server 2005 It almost looks as if SQL Server 2005 Maintenance Plans have been tossed into a blender with SQL Server 2000 DTS. In my opinion, for what its worth, I like the new look. But what should you watch out for… Final Thoughts on "Trust, But Verify" Jon writes "For SQL it should […]

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Small Shop DBAs and Due Diligence for Your SQL Server

Featured Article(s) Introducing the F# Programming Language The F# programming language an object oriented and functional multi paradigm programming language (combines the best of the best features of other languages) based upon OCaml, is freely available from Microsoft. It is a functional programming language that can be executed on top of Microsoft .NETs managed platform and provides a lot of […]

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Protecting Your Systems… from DBAs?

Protecting Your Systems… from DBAs? Karen wrote in with a link to this story about a DBA that was caught stealing, then dismissed, of course. On the way out, they decided to take down the database for the company, effectively putting the company out of business. Lovely. There are a number of things that come from this story. First, the […]