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Stallman: The great divide between free and open source software

The terms 'free software' and 'open source' are often used interchangeably, but those attending Richard Stallman's presentation at the Australian Computer Society Victorian branch forum last night were left in no doubt about his view of philosophical difference. Read more »

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SQL Server tips: nested triggers and dump files

These SQL Server tips will help you detect when a trigger inadvertently fires other triggers and teach you to read backup info stored in the msdb. Read more »

Visualise your database with treemaps

In this tutorial we show you how to generate a simple treemap to show which tablespaces have low percentages of free space and include a sample PHP script to generate the results in a graph. Read more »

Create a dynamic menu tree in ColdFusion and JavaScript

It's easy to develop a database-powered dynamic menu. We'll show you how, with a little bit of ColdFusion and JavaScript magic. Read more »

Find blocking processes using recursion in SQL Server 2005

Blocking occurs in SQL Server 2005 when one process has one or more records locked, while another process tries to acquire locks on the same set (or subset) of records. This can create a daisy-chain of processes waiting to complete their work. Read more »

RIFE with possibilities

Developing a web-based application is never a small undertaking. At the very best it's a lot of work just to develop the code that does whatever it is your application is supposed to do but before you even get to the point of writing your application's code, you have to decide what you going to write it in. Read more »

Build directory structures using SQL Server 2005

If you store directory structures in the database, you are aware of what it takes to retrieve the data. Writing queries to pull this information is sometimes difficult to achieve and inefficient. You can use the recursion and XML features in SQL Server 2005 to build a file location on the fly. Read more »

Managed code in SQL Server Yukon: a big deal?

One of the big features of Microsoft's next release of SQL Server is the ability to run managed code. How does it work, and is it a good idea? Read more »

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 uncovered

SQL Server 2005 has finally hit the market and brought with it significant new features and changes from previous versions. We'll explain the various editions of SQL Server 2005 take a look at the new management console. Read more »

SQL Server 2005 secrets

There's plenty of hype about the new SQL Server 2005. Here's a list what's important about the pending release, and what you can plan on using SQL Server for in the near future. Read more »

.NET delivers regular expressions

Regex has been around for a long time, but is new to many .NET programmers. Check out some cool apps for .NET's Regex functionality. Read more »

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