Chapter 1 hands-on exercises in "Learning SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services"

The step-by-step hands-on in this chapter is really to perusade and guide the user to install appropriate software after evaluating the resources he/she has on the user computer. This is going to be a one-man/woman show. One user with one computer doing all the stuff.

The hands-on exercises are:

* Installing a named instance of SQL Server 2008

* Reviewing the installation

* Installing a test database

* Configuring the Reporting Services

There is a lot of information and a lot of screen shots to make it an effortless experience.

Have fun.

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Get Dojo 1.3.1

Get the latest (best as some say) version of DOJO from the following site:

http://www.dojotoolkit.org/2009/03/31/dojo-1-3-now-available

If you are wrapped up in web here are two other sources that you can src

Google CDN add,
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/dojo/1.3.0/dojo/dojo.xd.js"></script>

AOL distribution at:
<script src="http://o.aolcdn.com/dojo/1.3.0/dojo/dojo.xd.js"></script>

Have I tried them?
Yes with some funny results. It is probably got to do with them CSS.

I reference my previous article to illustrate what I found.

http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2009/02/dojo-123-widget-with-embedded-jquery.html

What I did was take out the reference to the dojo.xd.js from my file and use the Google and AOL CDN's. Here are the screen shots (graphics are full and unclipped) of what I saw got displayed. However the functionality of neither the accrodion nor the jquery's effect has not changed. The first one is from an Opera browser, the other two are form IE 8.0

Windows 7 RC is out - Go grab it

Windows 7 RC can be downloaded now. You can down load the following ISO file:

7100.0.090421-1700_x86fre_client_en-us_retail_ultimate-grc1culfrer_en_dvd.iso (2.35 GB)
from the Microsoft site ( It took me 1.5 hrs with my Comcast Broadband connection). I had perhaps the best download experience with the down loader.

https://www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/productkeys/win7-rc-32/enus/

You will have to first register.

This version is good for almost a whole year.

Words of caution

Do not install it on your main computer that you use regularly for your personal use. A dedicated test pc is good if you can afford it. I am planning to put it on a desktop virtual.

What are the minimum requirements?

This is probably the mfaq (most frequently asked question). Here are the bare essentials:

* 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

* 1 GB RAM (32-bit) / 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

* 16 GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20 GB (64-bit)
   DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

You may probably get away with a less stringent requirement with some reduced performance.

Element Binding in Silverlight 3.0

Binding control elements one with the other is a very powerful tool that can reduce writing code. Now with Silverlight 3 which is in beta this is easy. There are many examples wherein the values of a given element would depend on the setting of another control and binding elements would reduce the amount of code to be written otherwise. Although the code for the example chosen would have been very small, it could be substantial in other cases. 

This tutorial shows how to set the date on a date picker control that would display the date in a text box. Although the example by itself quite trivial, it brings out the essentials of element binding. In order to test this you need to have Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Silverlight 3.0 installed on your machine.

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Element Binding in Silverlight 3.0

Articles on earlier versions of Oracle SQL Developer

If you are interested in reading about earlier versions of Oracle SQL Developer you may want to review these articles

http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Oracle/How-to-Use-the-Oracle-SQL-Developer-Tool/3/

MS Access Queries with Oracle SQL Developer 1.2 Tool

Migrating MS Access 2003 Data using the Oracle SQL Developer 1.2