J.D. Edwards was big on Systems Thinking, a way of looking at your systems and improving their functions. It was applied it to IT to become one of the top IT organizations to work for. Read some of these articles for an overview of how this works.
2004-09-24
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This functin returns the number of days in a month, given the month and the year. It does this by adding 1 month to the first of the month, substract 1 day and get the day part of the result.
2004-09-23 (first published: 2004-03-30)
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An oldy, but good basic look at XML and how it fits into SQL Server 2000.
2004-09-23
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A look at how OLAP and Anlysis services might fit into your business and some things to think about when a business intelligence system might be right for you.
2004-09-22
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Have you ever wondered how many SQL Servers are on your network? Need their versions for patches, reporting, etc? Read about this technique for easily scanning for all the servers that are installed.
2004-09-21
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Simple enough routine that I've had to write I don't know how many times in different languages. It does what it says in the title i.e. kills multiple occurences of the whitespace character, leaving one behind to tell the tale.
2004-09-20 (first published: 2004-05-21)
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A short piece on indexing using multiple columns. For those of you that have 10 single column indexes, read a little about why you might choose to index on multiple columns.
2004-09-20
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A service oriented architecture seeks to decouple some of the tight connections normally built between systems and components. Here's a great overview on how messaging between systems can be setup from MSDN.
2004-09-20
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A procedure and a function doing the same thing are posted.
2004-09-16
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The level of index fragmentation is not taken into consideration. Actual level of fragmentation is assume to be proportionnal over time.Only one object can be used as the witness to drive the database size.A normally distributed database is needed for this tool to report accurate estimates. ** Example : dbo.sp__EstimateSize @UpdateUsage = true ,@ObjGuidance = […]
2004-09-16
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