Monitoring the World
Arindam Sen This solution lets APC keep track of its global systemsLearn how Innovator Awards grand-prize winner Arindam Sen created a monitoring, alerting, and reporting system that increased systems...
View ArticleCalling All COM Objects
Michael Otey SQL Server stored procedures and extended stored procedures perform a variety of database-related functions. Here are seven sp_OA stored procedures that you can use for OLE...
View ArticleSimple But Slow: Performance-Tuning Tips for an Ailing Query
Microsoft's SQL Server Development Team Microsoft's Patrick Conlan comes up with a hatful of tricks to performance-tune a simple query that won't perform.read more
View ArticlePutting Back Missing Visual Studio 2003 Features
William Vaughn In Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft has hidden some commonly used features. Here's how to get back the features you're used to.read more
View ArticleSmarter T-SQL Debugging in Visual Studio 2005
William Vaughn T-SQL debugging in earlier versions of Visual Studio required creative workarounds. In Visual Studio 2005, the problems are fixed--and new features make debugging easier.read more
View ArticleADO.NET 2.0: Smarter, Faster, Better
William Vaughn New features solve developers’ problemsThe latest release of Microsoft’s data-access tool, ADO.NET 2.0, has a slew of new features designed to solve specific developer problems. Get an...
View ArticleIntegrating SQL Server & Office 2003
Michael Otey Explore the possibilitiesAll the major Microsoft Office 2003 applications include tools that let you incorporate and use data from a SQL Server database. These instructions for importing...
View ArticleIntegrating with a Remote Database and Indexes
Michael Otey In this issue, I explain how to integrate SQL Server Express with other SQL Server installations, use indexes in tables to speed up data retrieval, and answer questions from readers about...
View ArticleDeveloper Update--.NET Now Positioned to Replace COM--September 1, 2006
Various Authors In this issue of Developer Update, read about the changing mind-set concerning .NET's impact on COM and readers' experiences with merging changes in Team Foundation Server (TFS).read more
View Article.NET Now Positioned to Replace COM
William Sheldon When Microsoft introduced its .NET technology, there were many discussions about whether this was a sign of the end of COM. At the time, most people concluded that it wasn't the end...
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