Microsoft has announced that its Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000, the company's first security product, will ship this month. ISA Server--3 years in development--replaces and enhances Proxy Server and offers enterprise...
Can a readme file contain extra memory?
Let's put this month's material to the test. Using the FoodMart 2000 Sales cube, write a query that shows Unit Sales for each Drink product department for each quarter of 1997. Use cell properties to highlight in red the Unit Sales values that...
How to make sure all your systems are go...
How large is your brain? I hope it has plenty of room left for an outstanding training opportunity. Microsoft recently released the Technology Week Conference in DVD-ROM format. This DVD-ROM package includes the audio and Microsoft PowerPoint...
Recently, while working on a few enterprise-wide projects for a Fortune 500 company, I ran into some interesting choices regarding my COM objects' public interfaces. I was trying to solve the basic problem of uniformly sending a variable number of...
An XML document is simply a text file—a sequence of ASCII characters. To spring to life, it needs something to interpret the content and transform it into a memory structure that applications can work with. Although this memory structure certainly...