Introduction This article briefs you about siteminder and its various tools available for integration with your web applications. This is just an overview to know about siteminder tools. There are lot of documentation available in the CA Netigrity website (Reference section below). Purpose The web user can securely access the web application using Siteminder API. Only a validated user can n...

Level: Beginner-intermediate Introduction We see the occasional question in the Access area which at its core is about the difference between what is seen in a control on a form and the underlying value in that control. This article, and the attached sample show the differences between the two. Text ... Value ... OldValue ...

There are many things a user does with an application that need to be preserved either during processing, between screens, between sessions, or between application updates/versions. When designing a system, it's important to consider what needs to be kept and where/how to do this. If designed properly, the data should also support multi-user environments. Problem Users are commonly annoyed t...

Recently I and the team has just gone through a series of UAT with the client over the weeks, and would like to drop something about what we learnt during the course. These are not comprehensive bullet points telling how a UAT should be prepared. They are just my own little tips, and having these written for now in case I get to be the person managing it one day. Expectation UAT is not a ti...

Data compression has been around for years and while it’s not new technology it is new to SQL Server. Data compression was first introduced in SQL Server 2008 and is only available in the Enterprise Edition. Compression achieves two main objectives. First, it can significantly reduce the size of physical database files and second, using index compression, performance can be vastly improve...