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Extreme Markup Languages 2005
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Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and Reporting Services
(Terry Voss) A client recently asked me to prepare to train someone on SQL Server Reporting Services for their latest project. The project was a Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Windows Forms project, with an ASP.NET project also involved. Knowing that Reporting Services in Visual Studio 2003 is a Business
Programming Indigo: The Programming Model
(David Pallmann) In this excerpted chapter from his upcoming book, Programming Indigo, David Pallmann describes the Indigo programming model for building service-oriented applications.
Equivalent code of sp_configure ‘allow updates’ in SQL Sever 2005
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Patch Management: Stop Killing the Database to Save It
(Charles Garry) Opinion: Instead of racing to provide new features, database vendors should take the time to upgrade patch management tools.
REBUILD Utility (Indexes) panel
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Identity and Access Management Solutions
(John Ganci, Subbu Cherukuwada, Bob McGoogan, Leonardo Olivera, Jacob Thorwart and Wes Wardell) The identity and access management solutions described is this redbook include the following key areas: 1. User provisioning: Develop a portlet interface for self-care (user and account management), an
Release 2 Addendum, Part 3: Performance Features
(Arup Nanda) Let’s assume that you use Oracle Enterprise Manager to diagnose and solve performance issues. One day, a nasty issue arises: a badly designed application is causing serious library-cache lock issues and the database appears to be hung. You have to quickly identify the culprit sessions a
Delivering an effective and flexible data warehouse solution: Part 2: Warehouse design and data modeling
(Leon Gong, Mike Olivas, Christine Posluszny, Donna Venditti and George McMillan) The business climate is changing rapidly, and so are the types of business data. The basis of a successful data warehousing solution is a flexible design which can adapt to changing business data. Data warehouse archit