Grouping Sets
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Make IT workers accountable, experts urge
Insight Asia's industry players call for higher status to be accorded to the profession, and believe legislation of IT security professionals is inevitable.
Tags: Corporate responsibility, Security, HR policies and procedures, Professional Development
Exchange 2000 migration: Plan now or pay later
Insight If you don't do your homework and properly prepare for Exchange 2000, you could join the ranks of those who have experienced failed upgrades.
Enhance your listening skills and your management success
Insight Listening is something that most managers believe they do well, but in fact, you may not be the good listener you think you are.
Using Grouping Sets in SQL Server 2008
Techguide A neat new feature in SQL Server 2008 is the GROUPING SETS clause, which allows you to easily specify combinations of field groupings in your queries to see different levels of aggregated data.
Tags: Databases, Server platforms, Microsoft SQL Server, GROUPING SETS, Clause, Product, Database, SQL, SalesHistory, GROUP
Grouping for custom rollups in Oracle
Techguide The GROUPING SETS option of GROUP BY lets you generate custom sets of subtotals, without seeing as many rows of output as GROUP BY CUBE. In this tip, Bob Watkins offers code samples of how to use GROUPING SETS.
How to make Work Breakdown Structure easier
Techguide Almost all project schedules are built using a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
Tags: IT Management
Chroot users with OpenSSH the easy way
Techguide The new function included in the release of OpenSSH means you no longer have to rely on third-party hacks or complicated chroot setups to confine users to their home directories.
Tags: Networking, Open source
Using custom configuration settings in .NET
Techguide The .NET Framework makes configuration settings a breeze with XML-based configurations. It also supplies the means necessary for accessing these settings through Collection classes.
Use custom configuration settings in .NET
Techguide Here are three methods for accessing and storing configuration information in the .Net Framework.
Tags: Software, Protocols and platforms, Software engineering/development, Programming languages, .NET
Set the tone with a well-planned kickoff meeting
Insight Your first project meeting is an opportunity to share your plan for leading the project to a successful completion. You should take advantage of this one-time chance to energize the group, set proper expectations, and establish guidelines that will help you complete the project on time and within budget.
Microsoft testing next Exchange
News The new version, code-named E14, is being further tweaked to run as a hosted service, as well as a server.
Tags: E-mail clients, E-mail servers, Microsoft Corp., IBM Lotus Notes, Web client, Microsoft Outlook Web Access, e-mail, software, public beta, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Obama urged to appoint new cybersecurity tsar
News The Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency is recommending U.S. President-elect Barack Obama create a new White House office to address cybersecurity.
Tags: Hacking, Spam and phishing, Viruses and worms, Defense/military, Federal Government, Security, Cybersecurity, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Telecommunications, NOC
WiMedia Alliance calls it a day
News The industry group set up to develop and promote ultrawideband technology will close shop, and will pass on its technological specifications to other industry groups.
Tags: Bluetooth, UWB, Wireless USB, Wireless, USB, Bluetooth Special Interest Group, Bluetooth, Personal Area Network, WiMedia Alliance, industry
Microsoft defends Outlook HTML decision
News E-mail Standards Project group urges Twitter users to pressure Microsoft to support better HTML formatting in Outlook as software vendor stands by its decision.
Tags: Microsoft Outlook, E-mail servers, Web Page, e-Mail Message, e-mail, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Web, Microsoft Word, HTML
Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility
News Documents created using the Office Open XML document format can now be viewed via a Firefox plug-in, while OOXML's compatibility with ODF and Apache has also been enhanced.
Tags: Office suites, Open source, Software integration, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Office Open XML, Plug-in, Tool, Interoperability
