Return of the users from hell!
Another great article from David Poole looking at more user stereo types that the IT world must deal with. Read on for smile and a little fun.
Microsoft, SQL Server and Performance Management: The Business Scoreca
The first article looking at the new BI scorecard technology from Microsoft. This allows you to quickly deploy some easy reports on your OLAP system. From datawarehouse.com.
SQL Server 2000 Indexing
What happens to SQL Server 2000 indexes over time? Fragmentation is one of the effects and Steve Jones looks at how you can work with and identity fragmentation.
Redistributing DTS with your program
Have you ever wanted to run DTS on a workstation or server that doesn't have SQL installed? Here's the items you need to move to make it happen.
InfoPath 2003 - Part 3
Continuing his series on SQL Server and InfoPath 2003, the new reporting tool that has been added to Office. This time Dinesh looks at a practical application using expense entry along with some more features of this new tool.
Radio Buttons for Reporting Services Reports
This article will detail a way to display radio buttons in your reports. Radio buttons are commonly used in surveys for things such as displaying a selected ranking from 1 to 10 or from Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree.
Extracting a String Within Delimeters - Part 2
T-SQL can be a complex language to work within and code solutions with. Author Stephen Lasham brings us a twist on his last solution of extracting a string from within another string. Read about his method of working with strings in T-SQL.
SQL Server 2000 Security - Part 10 - Auditing
A basic look at various ways in which you can perform some server auditing with SQL Server 2000.
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer V1.2.1
The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer has been updated to work with Windows XP SP2. If you use this tool be sure that you get the update to work with new patches and vulnerabilities.
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Flyway Tips: AI Deployment Script Descriptions
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A New Word: Fawtle
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Post-quantum key exchange – Insurance policy for your packets
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Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers