SQL Server allows multiple triggers on a table, but the order in which they are executed can sometimes cause problems. Author Dinesh Asanka brings us a technique for managing the order of execution for your triggers.
It seems that there is both excitement and confusion surrounding Master Pages and Themes. A big part of the problem is that they always seem to be mentioned in the same breath – like I just did. The reality is that they are two separate but equally important technologies. Each has its own function in ASP.NET but when you use these two technologies together, you get a site design that is amazingly versatile, easy-to-use, and easy-to-adapt. ASP.NET 2.0 provides a whole host of improvements to your web development experience but, in my opinion, these two technologies represent the single biggest reason to migrate your sites to this new platform. Let's take a look at each of these technologies in turn.
The report models introduced in SQL Server 2005 feature a number of ways to customize the data visible to different users and groups: perspectives, model item security, security filters, and opaque expressions. This article describes when and how to use each of these features.
One of the big changes with SQL Server 2005 is the evolution of SQL-DMO to the new SMO managed code assemblies. Author Raj Vasant brings us quite a bit of code to show how this can be used to script your objects.
Will multiple processors or a dual core processor be beneficial to you, and what are the differences between them? These are the questions this article will attempt to lay to rest.
Do you use identity values? Do missing values ever cause problems? Maybe you need to look for missing invoices? Stephen Lasham brings us a technique for finding those missing values in a sequence.
In this article I will show you how you can implement security on a WCF service. There are many options and extensibility points for implementing security in WCF. You can also use specific products, such as the Windows 2003 Server Authorization Manager, together with WCF to implement the authorization requirements of a solution. Out of the box, WCF supports Windows credentials, Username Tokens and X.509 Digital Certificates as security credentials.
InfoPath forms can be saved to XML, these XML Files can later be used in SSIS XMLSource adapter to pull out the data in tables and columns. However, there are some common problems you may meet in these scenarios. This article describes how to work around these potential problems. The issues mentioned in this article is not only specific to InfoPath files, it can also be referenced in other similar situations as well.
It is something you do rarely, but with SQL Server 2005 and ten services, there are more decisions to make. Steve Jones gives some advice on which service accounts to choose and some common problems with others.
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I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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