Final Keynotes of Pass Summit 200911/06 The final day of PASS offered insights into configuration management, how it helps with Disaster Recovery and Consolidation, and a glimpse in the direction that Microsoft is heading with SQL Server 10.5.
SQL Azure TSQL11/06 SQL Azure is very similar to traditional SQL Server and now supports many standard TSQL commands. This article demonstrates the use of TSQL commands to create SQL Azure objects.
PASSion Award and Tom Casey’s Keynote Address - Pass Summit 200911/05 Tom Casey's keynote revealed Microsoft's plans to provide BI tools that help the power user and IT professional by adding additional functionality to a familiar tool like Excel. A PowerPivot demo showed how you can create Excel workbooks with billions of rows.
Explicit GRANTs and ROLES in Oracle Database 11g11/05 Many database shops have no idea of the security breaches that occur across user granted privilege and floating unused synonyms. James Koopman offers tips for granting privileges explicitly to a user or group of users, and assigning privileges to a role and then granting that role to users.
Why Sharepoint? By Joe Mack
Published October 28, 2009
SharePoint is the fastest growing product in Microsoft history and according to Forrester the number 1 portal product in use today. Let Joe Mack show you some of the ways Sharepoint can make your workers and your company more efficient and profitable.
Win 7 Code Pack for Visual Studio By Jani Jarvinen
Published October 13, 2009
Use Windows 7 Code Pack to boost your .NET development inside VisualStudio.
Drill Down Charts in Silverlight By Chad Campbell
Published September 29, 2009
Learn how to deliver drill down charting functionality using the Silverlight toolkit.
Dependency Injection with MS Unity By Dan Rigsby
Published September 16, 2009
Dan Rigsby gives us a first look at the Dependency Injection design pattern and how to accomplish it with Microsoft's Unity.
IBM Opens Business Analytics Center11/06 Bangalore facility will employ experts skilled in applying database and statistical tools to customers' information challenges.
EC To Object To Oracle's Sun Acquisition, Say Reports11/06 The EC is likely to make a formal objection to Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, because of the inclusion of the open source MySQL database, say newspaper reports.
EC May Block Oracle/Sun Merger11/05 Neither side seems willing to blink while Sun customers and employees are rubbing their eyes in pain.
Track Table Fragmentation A diagnostic table and stored procedure to track the fragmentation of large tables within databases. The user passes the database name and the table name as parameters to the SP. The SP can be set up to run as a scheduled job every few hours to produce a historical trend of fragmentation.
