Technical Articles

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Audit your Windows domain DBA group using PowerShell
Adding or removing a login from a dedicated domain group is easy compared to adding individual DBA logins to every SQL Server box. This article illustrates how to audit such changes on the domain group.
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Discover SQL Server TCP Port
Learn how to discover the TCP port for a SQL Server instance from the registry using Windows Powershell.
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Mastering OLAP Reports: Parameterizing Number of “Top” Items with the MDX TopCount() Function, Part II
BI Architect Bill Pearson continues his hands-on demonstration of an approach to the parameterization of the highly useful TopCount() function.
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Intro to PHP + Oracle
Sean Hull points you on the right track to get started with PHP and Oracle.
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Business Intelligence Publisher – The “Other” Oracle Reports
BI Publisher is a tremendously powerful reporting tool. It is based on a widely accepted standardized open source language (XML), it is feature rich in terms of what it can produce and it empowers users to query, view, and format their own reports. Read on to learn more.
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