Pentaho Data Integration (PDI, also called Kettle), one of the data integration tools leaders, is broadly used for all kind of data manipulation, such as migrating data between applications or databases, exporting data from databases to flat files, data cleansing, and much more. Do you need quick solutions to the problems you face while...

Welcome to the official Mac OS X Server Essentials training course offered by Apple Computer. This book serves as a self-paced guide and is designed to help you build the basic skills you need to effectively administer Mac OS X Server. Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Server Essentials details the graphical tools that Apple provides to...

The story of software engineering has been the story of increasing the level of abstraction at which we as programmers work, from logic encoded in hardware to toggle switches representing binary digits, through machine code, assembly language, low-level languages, and high-level languages both procedural and functional. More recently,...

With the vast development of Internet capacity and speed, as well as wide adoptation of media technologies in people’s daily life, a large amount of videos have been surging, and need to be efficiently processed or organized based on interest. The human visual perception system could, without difficulty, interpret and recognize...

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The release of SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services is the beginning of a new, more accessible era for master data management. Because of price and complexity, most solutions on the market today are geared toward large corporations and require dedicated consulting teams to implement. MDS, a feature of SQL Server Enterprise Edition,...

Using CSS3 to describe how your page should look, however, is not new. The...

A quick look at your local bookstore’s Internet section will tell you that there are quite a few commercial packages out there for building web sites. What those books often fail to mention is that many of the world’s most popular web sites were built using freely available tools, and run on free operating systems (OS). They...

SharePoint 2010 enables businesses to set up collaboration with, and for, many types of entities (employees, vendors, customers, and so on) while integrating disparate technologies. It has proved so valuable a tool at many organizations that its growth has led it to become a mission-critical application. As SharePoint has grown through each...

With more than 500 million active users around the world and still growing steadily, Facebook is more than just another social media site. In the words of author Dave Awl, Facebook is “the new town square”—the place where people gather to discuss the news of the day as well as share what’s going on in their lives. And...

Over the years as power costs have soared and data center space has become scarce and expensive to acquire, enterprises and small businesses have been looking for ways to decrease their data center footprints as well as reduce the overall costs of operating an IT infrastructure. As the number of different applications being deployed in...