(Lachlan Hunt) The discussion of XHTML versus HTML has popped up again, and until now I’ve managed to resist the urge to throw in my 2¢. Well, no longer will I sit on the side line while the same arguments get rehashed again and again, which will not get us anywhere. In this article, which I origina
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If you’re a Web site administrator charged with maintaining server uptime, you already know that there’s only one thing scarier than the smell of your server overheating, and that’s the sound of your disks crashing. It’s even worse when those disks contain critical data, like user passwords or conte
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(Tony Patton) Random number generation is a common programming endeavor, but many developers are unaware of the true nature of the random numbers generated by a system. Learn more about random numbers and how to use them in your .NET applications.
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The SQL Server Desktop Engine (also known as MSDE 2000) does not have its own user interface because it is primarily designed to run in the background. Users interact with MSDE 2000 through the program in which it is embedded. The only tool that is provided with MSDE 2000 is the osql utility. The ex
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(Terry Sutton and Roger Schrag) The wait event interface has continued to be an invaluable tool for DBAs as it offers both breadth and depth in the information it provides to aid in troubleshooting and boosting system performance. Throughout this paper we will assume the reader is familiar with
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(Ali Rohani) DB2 Document Manager is one of the newest members of the IBM Enterprise Content Management (ECM) portfolio. Do you need to quickly configure DB2 Document Manager in your test or development environment? Gain quick practical skills in configuring the basic elements of DB2 Document Manage
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(Doug Seven) This article is modeled after a presentation I gave at TechEd 2004, which has since been requested by many user groups around the country. I figured it would be easier to share this information through an article than trying to get to every user group in the world. The content of th