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Database Management & Programming News, Articles & Tutorials for Database Administrators
12/30
As a Database Administrator, you need to consider setting up your environment to do instant file initialization. This article explains what instant file initialization is, why it is important, and shows you how to set it up. Additionally, we demonstrate how not setting it up can adversely affect your database performance. 12/29
The ingredients to a successful Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence deployment include good project management, effective communication and using DW/BI tools to their full potential. Denise Rogers presents her top 10 techniques to guarantee a successful DW/BI deployment. 12/29
Discover the wealth of I/O performance tuning information that Oracle 11gR2’s Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) reports provide, and learn how to use that information to determine if any I/O performance bottlenecks actually exist, and how to form initial hypotheses to resolve those bottlenecks within the database's underlying input/output (I/O) subsystem.
12/28
DB2 for z/OS provides mainframe users with unmatched levels of resilience and scalability through technology known as data sharing. IBM announced that similar capabilities would be delivered for DB2 for LUW, in an optional facility dubbed pureScale. Read on to learn whether DB2 pureScale has met or exceeded expectations. 12/27
SSIS offers extensive logging capabilities, allowing you to record predefined events raised by packages and their components. These same configuration settings can be leveraged in Script Task, but you also have the option of triggering and tracking events in a considerably more customizable manner. This article explores features that provide this flexibility. 12/22
In the Web 2.0 world where smart phone and Web applications are competing to
access terabytes of data, there is a new imperative for speeding up retrieval
times as much as the technology permits. Rob Gravelle lists a few coding
techniques that we as database administrators and developers can use to whittle
down unwieldy results sets into manageable chunks.
OSSCube reaches European market through One Point Consulting
SQL Server database experts will teach workshops, expos, and classes.
Attunity enters a multi-million dollar OEM agreement with Microsoft.
DBAs can improve their corporate presence as we move to cloud databases.
Release of Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services 2.0.0 allows for generating PDF reports.
Recent launch of SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Shared Cloud enables publishing of Microsoft Access databases on SharePoint.
Each new web hosting package has been upgraded to MySQL 5.1 by Linux hosting provider A2 Hosting.
All 4 Koenig training centers have been approved to be part of Oracle University.
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By Jani Jarvinen
Published December 29, 2010
Watch this short screencast to learn the tools needed for XNA application development for the new Windows Phone 7 platform. You will also learn how XNA games are organized at the highest level, and see how you can test your games within the phone emulator, part of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone 7.
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By Jeffrey Juday
Published December 3, 2010
Learn core Task Parallel Library concepts; including how to use the Task and BlockingCollection classes.
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By Jani Jarvinen
Published November 11, 2010
Watch this screencast to learn how to work with the SQL Azure web management portal and how to create and delete databases, set up firewall access rules, and more.
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By Joe Mack
Published October 27, 2010
Watch and learn as we explore the Site Workflow feature of SharePoint 2010.
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