Friday, July 22, 2005

New Incentives Loom for Data(base) Encryption [Updated]

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SQL Server 2005's native data encryption features gain new importance as U.S. congressmen and state lawmakers curry favor with constitu...
Sunday, July 03, 2005

A Business Intelligence Demo with Real-World Data

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The Gartner Group attributes much of the 10.3 percent growth of the total relational database market from 2003 to 2004 to new business intel...
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Microsoft Promises RSS 2.0 Support in Longhorn

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Steve Ballmer reportedly considers RSS " a little too simple ," but damnation by faint praise by Microsoft's CEO hasn't pr...
Monday, June 20, 2005

Article: ChoicePoint and "Garbage In, Garbage Out"

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Baseline magazine's Web site offers a full-length feature article, " ChoicePoint: Blur ," which investigates inaccuracies in ...
Thursday, June 09, 2005

Tech*Ed 2005 Show Daily Articles from FTPOnline

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If you subscribe to Fawcette Technical Publications' .NET Insight newsletter, you've received three "Show Daily" newslett...
Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Powerful Stuff: WS-*, Single Sign-On, and InfoCard

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It's risky to speculate on the nature of the "powerful stuff" that Steve Ballmer mentioned during a Q&A session at the re...
Saturday, May 21, 2005

RSS and Web Services: Keep It Simple, Steve.

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Amit Malhotra's May 19, 2005 post on therssweblog includes a transcript of his unscheduled Q&A session with Microsoft's Steve ...
Friday, May 20, 2005

Microsoft Web Services DevChannel Opens at FTPOnline

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Fawcette Technical Publications recently added a new Microsoft Web Services DevChannel to the FTPOnline portals collection. The DevChannel ...
Monday, April 18, 2005

P&P Enterprise Library, VB, and Data Access Application Block Bugs

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Microsoft's patterns & practices group (PAG) released an updated version of seven Application Blocks for the .NET Framework 1.1 in ...
Thursday, March 31, 2005

Another Alternative to AdventureWorks

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Before the days of COM-based VB6 Web Services, I wrote a VB6 client/server demonstration project that emulated early Web-based retail supply...
Tuesday, March 29, 2005

VB6 to VB .NET Upgrade Wizard Gets a Bum Rap

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As of today, 273 Microsoft MVPs and 4,152 other interested parties have signed a petition to "further develop VB6 and VBA." The p...
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Saturday, March 26, 2005

Northwind vs. AdventureWorks as a Sample Database - Round 2

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Here's more on the issue of AW vs. NW as a sample database for books about Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005. This post uses AW's Sa...
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Friday, March 25, 2005

Northwind vs. AdventureWorks as a Sample Database

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Microsoft "strongly urges" book authors to abandon Northwind as the default sample database in favor of SQL Server (SQLS) 2005...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2005

The Opening Salvo - Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005

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Welcome to the OakLeaf Systems blog. I'm in the process of writing a new book about database programming with Microsoft Visual Basic 2...