language en-us 2008-11-20T15:22 http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/article.php/3784861 How to use technology to score the best deals on the big shopping day. 2008-11-20T15:22 http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/buyersguide/article.php/3786291 If the price tag on the iconic ThinkPad notebook makes you think twice, you'll love the small-biz focused SL series. These models have the attributes of a ThinkPad, without the high price. 2008-11-20T15:21 http://www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/3785821/Searching-and-Sorting-Strings-in-Oracle.htm Steve Callan discusses what takes place inside the Oracle database when you're searching for something "LIKE" the value of interest. How does Oracle approach the problem of determining if the string 'ABCD' appears in the string 'ABCABDABCDAB' and if it does, how many times? 2008-11-20T15:21 http://www.databasejournal.com/features/msaccess/article.php/3785151/Preparing-To-Upgrade-Access-Tables-to-SQL-Server-20052008.htm Garry Robinson discusses some of the subtleties that you can apply to your database tables prior to upsizing your tables to SQL Server. In this article, I will show you how to fix up some of your Access backend before you make the conversion. 2008-11-19T15:06 http://www.instantmessagingplanet.com/enterprise/article.php/3785811/ 'Yuuguu provides real-time Web conferencing that's simple to set up and IM network agnostic. Look for enterprise-ready versions in 2009.' 2008-11-19T15:06 http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/essentials/paypal/article.php/3785726 PayPal's Global Selling Guide, which launched today, has information on the holiday customs of 17 nations and tips on a variety of topics including shipping, payments, customs and tax considerations. 2008-11-19T15:05 http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/biztools/article.php/3785461 Can spending money on technology help your small business survive the economic crunch? Let the debate begin. 2008-11-18T16:46 http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/3785356/Software+Developers+Dilemma:+Is+Being+A+ ales+Engineer+a+Cop-Out?.htm Sure, the die-hard developers snigger at the idea, but the upsides are enormous. (How does $130k sound?) 2008-11-18T16:46 http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3785481/Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell-and-SQL-Server-2008-AMO.htm The first installment of this series illustrating the power of Windows PowerShell in conjunction with SQL Server 2008 demonstrates how to install and use a simple PowerShell command and a simple AMO command. 2008-11-18T16:45 http://www.esecurityplanet.com/features/article.php/3785336/Boosting-Email-and-Web-S curity-Unified-Messaging-Platform.htm The majority of threats to the enterprise are now triggered by Web content, not email content, creating a vital need for a unified messaging platform in the battle against cyber-threats. 2008-11-17T15:18 http://www.webreference.com/programming/php_5_cms_framework_development2/ This week we continue our look at PHP 5 CMS Framework Development. Our focus is on ways to implement model-role-based access control. Specific details, such as the way accessors and subjects are identified are adapted to the particular situation of a CMS framework. 2008-11-17T15:17 http://www.databasejournal.com/features/db2/article.php/3784896/Transforming-Business-Logic-into-Web-Services-Using-DB2-95-and-IBM-Data-Studio.htm Learn how to take business logic such as stored procedures, functions, or SQL statements and turn them into a Web service. 2008-11-17T15:17 http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/article.php/3784551/Why+Youll+Buy+a+Netbook+On+Black+Friday.htm Tips on using technology to score a sweet netbook. Because you can never be too rich, too thin or have too many netbooks. 2008-11-14T15:01 http://www.webreference.com/programming/perl/xref/ Available in static JavaScript and dynamic (with a Perl back-end) flavors, the WebReference xref script is a traffic-building tool that enables you to automatically insert links into your Web pages whenever a key term is encountered on the page. 2008-11-14T15:00 http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3784236/SQL-Server-Measuring-Space-Allocation-and-Index-Distribution.htm One of the housekeeping challenges DBAs face is to keep track of their databases' growth and how much space is being used by each table and index in those databases. SpaceUsedAnalyzer extends the functionality of the spaceused system stored procedure to present information that is more detailed. 2008-11-14T14:58