Power Thinking Tools – Goal Tending !

Want to break away from the pack? Then do know that it's not enough to have a goal. Once a goal is chosen, it must be detailed & groomed. That's what goal tending is all about. This article takes the reader through this process & on the way to experiencing the high level achievements that come only from working in this precise way.

Web Service-Oriented Architecture – The Best Solution to Business Integration

How do you unlock the value of the information your organization manages? Business integration is the key technique in unlocking this information. Business integration is the single biggest issue for end-users, and therefore, for the IT industry. Recent Gartner research in this area has highlighted the importance of "service-oriented architectures" in solving the business integration issue. There is a growing realization that integration is best…

RedHat and USB devices

I started to use RedHat 7.3. Although it has come a long way and I really like how all the Linux Distributions are turning out, RedHat 7.3 makes me mad for only a few reasons:

SQL Server 2000 Table Hints

As you advance in your skills as a Transact-SQL developer or SQL Server database administrator there will come a time when you need to override SQL Server's locking scheme and force a particular range of locks on a table. Transact-SQL provides you with a set of table-level locking hints that you can use with SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements to tell SQL Server how…