Software for Profit
Steve Jones will be attending the Business of Software conference in September and gives a few reasons why this is an interesting topic to him.
2008-07-13
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Articles
Software for Profit
Steve Jones will be attending the Business of Software conference in September and gives a few reasons why this is an interesting topic to him.
2008-07-13
63 reads
SQL Server 2005 Service Accounts
Are you aware that SQL Server 2005 can have up to ten services running? Working with that many service accounts can be a challenge. Steve Jones takes a look at these services and a few of the things that you will want to know before setting up SQL Server 2005.
2008-07-11 (first published: 2006-03-23)
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VBscript hacks for DTS packages
This article is about using VBscript hacks to overcome two limitations of DTS packages.
2008-07-11
9,689 reads
Intrinsic Member Properties: The MEMBER_KEY Property
Join BI Architect Bill Pearson in an introduction to the intrinsic MEMBER_KEY property. In hands-on exercises, we gain exposure to the use of the property in generating simple lists, as well as datasets to support report parameter picklists.
2008-07-11
2,077 reads
Microsoft Jet 4.0 Sorting APIs: DBCompareStringW and DBLCMapStringW
The Microsoft Jet 4.0 relational database engine utilizes character sorting tables when creating and querying field indexes made up of character data. Two Microsoft Windows APIs are generally utilized for this functionality:
2008-07-11
3,944 reads
The Database Weekly Update for July 14, 2008
Steve Jones talks about data mining in the drug industry and the advantages of cheap software.
2008-07-11
183 reads
The Database Weekly Update for July 14, 2008
Steve Jones talks about data mining in the drug industry and the advantages of cheap software.
2008-07-11
220 reads
The Database Weekly Update for July 14, 2008
Steve Jones will be attending the Business of Software conference in September and gives a few reasons why this is an interesting topic to him.
2008-07-11
219 reads
Building Parent-Child Table Tree information
How many times have you wanted to know which child or grandchild records exists for a parent record? SSMS doesn't make this information easy to find beyond one level. New author Narasimhan Jayachandran brings us an article and a recursive solution.
2008-07-10
12,330 reads
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