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.
2004-09-16
10,646 reads
Articles
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.
2004-09-16
1,121 reads
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.
2004-09-15
16,185 reads
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.
2004-09-15
1,549 reads
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.
2004-09-14
7,096 reads
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.
2004-09-14
2,882 reads
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.
2004-09-13
7,862 reads
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.
2004-09-13
1,252 reads
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.
2004-09-10
3,864 reads
Sending SQL Notifications with CDOSYS
SQL Server has a nice alert system, but SQLMail leaves something to be desired. New author Desiree Harris, from hosting provider Orcsweb, looks at an alternative method for sending alerts using an SMTP server and without requiring Outlook to be installed.
2004-09-09
14,168 reads
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