SQL Server Magazine May 1999

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Visual Studio is Microsoft's high-value toolkit for developers. Since its release as Visual Studio 97, the product has incorporated most of the Microsoft developer tools. Since you often use several Microsoft development products to address different application development requirements, you'll apreciate Visual Studio 6.0. The latest release of Visual Studio 6.0 includes Visual Basic (VB), Visual C++, Visual FoxPro, Visual InterDev, Visual J++, Visual SourceSafe, and MSDN Library.
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[Focus]

An Awesome Set of Tools

Microsoft's Visual Studio 6.0 development tool suite lets developers build standard standalone Windows applications, Web-based applications, three-tiered enterprise-level applications, and more.

Manage Code Libraries and Objects with Visual Component Manager

A boon for development teams, Visual Component Manager lets you easily store and reuse components.

Using Data Connections with SQL Server and Visual InterDev 6.0

Create a Web application with help from a new OLE DB provider and a new ADO wrapper.




[Features]

Data Types Revealed

Understanding the difference between relational and object approaches to data type support helps you design and implement databases.

Unleash the Power of DTS

Data Transformation Services (DTS) is a SQL Server 7.0 utility service that provides import, export, and data manipulation capabilities between OLE DB, ODBC, and ASCII data stores.




[Columns]

Querying & Reporting: Reporting with Visual Basic 6.0

With Data Report Designer, you can create reports for many situations.

SQL by Design: Supertypes and Subtypes

How to accommodate all categories of people.

T-SQL for Starters: Working with Character Data

Here's how to handle character data within queries in SQL Server 6.5.

Trends & Insights: Keeping Score

Use some balanced scorecard concepts on a SQL Server shoestring.




[Departments]

New Products

New applications for your enterprise

SQL Insider

Previously associated only with manufacturing firms, ERP has become an all-encompassing term that describes the integrated flow and control of goods, services and processes down the supply chain.




[Editorial]

Universal Data vs. Universal Database

Microsoft and Oracle have long been at odds in the database world, and a first glance, their positions on universal data appear to be no exception.




[Reader to Reader]

Obtaining Record Counts

A better syntax for obtaining record counts.




[SQL Server Q&A]

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[SQL Seven]

System-Supplied Databases

A look at SQL Server 7.0's seven system-supplied databases.




[Inside SQL Server]

SQL Server 7.0 Transaction Log

The new transaction log ensures atomicity and durability.




[Web Dev]

Getting to Know Grid DTC

In less than five minutes, you can use the Grid DTC in Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 to display data from a SQL Server table or view on a Web page in an attractive HTML table.




[VB Toolkit]

Using Data Environment Events

The Data Environment can expose ADO events and many ADO features.




[Mastering OLAP]

Diving into MDX Queries

Sample MDX queries introduce techniques for slicing answer sets.