Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010: Give Your Data Meaning
On November 4, 2009, Alberto and I had dinner with many other Analysis Services experts from all around the world, including many people from the Microsoft development team. We were in Seattle for the PASS Summit 2009, a conference for SQL Server professionals, and because Redmond, Washington is very near to Seattle, events like this often... | | Documenting Oracle Databases_ Complete Oracle Database Schema Auditing
Many times the Oracle DBA is hired once the database becomes to much to handle without one, inherits the position or is appointed to it “since they
are so good with computers”. In any case, they usually get an
undocumented system that follows no conventions and holds many traps
for the unwary DBA.
... | | XML SchemasTo many XML believers and purists, there’s been a canker at the heart of the beautiful rose that is XML since its very inception. Worse still, some believe that canker was put there by design. That canker is, of course, the Document Type Definition, or DTD, that defines the very essence of XML. DTDs are “foreign imports” based on... |