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If you have a book, whitepaper, or other item that you think might be of help to others, contact me (see About) with the details and I will get back to you!


Books

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Whitepapers

A whitepaper is defined via wikiality as: “…an authoritative report. White papers are used to educate customers, collect leads for a company or help people make decisions. They can also be a government report outlining policy.” (source).

Business Intelligence Whitepapers

Visual FoxPro Whitepapers

  • A Survey of VFP’s International Features
    Steven Black Consulting
    Many Visual FoxPro commands have international nuances. This is fully documented in the INTL Toolkit. Below is the documentation on international issues for VFP commands. Keep these things in mind as you develop your international applications.
  • Buffering and Locking in Visual FoxPro
    Andy Kramek
    It seems that working with data buffering in Visual FoxPro causes a lot of confusion. I believe that this is largely due to the rather confusing implementation of buffering, and the somewhat odd use of nomenclature (by conventional standards) associated with the topic.
  • Hand Coding the Data Warehouse with VFP
    Tod McKenna
    This whitepaper makes the case for using Visual FoxPro as a hand-coding tool for developing data profiling, metadata, ETL, and other data warehousing applications. This, and the corresponding session material, was presented at FoxForward, 2007.
  • How FoxPro works internally
    Christof Wollenhaupt
    An attempt to describe how FoxPro probably works internally and why some things are as strange as they are.
  • Security in Visual FoxPro
    Christof Wollenhaupt
    Do you think your application and data are safe? After reading this article you might not be that sure anymore…
  • Testing Visual FoxPro Applications
    Andrew MacNeill
    Here’s an article that was originally promised to FoxPro Advisor but they turned it down as it wasn’t FoxPro-enough. Enjoy…
  • Visual FoxPro Structured Error Handling Matrix
    Randy Pearson and Cycla Corporation
    This site provides a reference for VFPs error handling strategies. Although not an article or whitepaper exactly, I’ve included it here because it is both informative and educational.

Miscellaneous Whitepapers

 

External Links

I have found the following resources, services, and publications to be very helpful.

Business Intelligence Links

  • The Business Intelligence Network
    The Business Intelligence Network includes horizontal technology coverage from the most respected thought leaders in Business Intelligence, Business Performance Management, Data Warehousing and Data Quality.
  • Information Management
    delivers market-leading insight through interviews, articles and columns written by the best consultants, hands-on practitioners and technology solution leaders the industry has to offer.
  • The Kimball Group The Kimball Group is the definitive source for dimensional data warehousing expertise. We organized in 2003 to respond to the increased demand for quality dimensional data warehouse consulting and education. The Kimball Group formalizes existing long-term relationships between Ralph Kimball Associates, DecisionWorks Consulting, and InfoDynamics LLC.
  • The Data Administration Newsletter The Data Administration Newsletter, LLC is an award winning electronic publication that focuses on the various disciplines of data management. TDAN.com celebrates its 10th Anniversary in July of 2007 and presently attracts close to 100,000 visitors a month. The publication is produced by Robert S. Seiner, a well-known data management specialist and the President / Principal for KIK Consulting & Educational Services, LLC.
  • TDWI: The Data Warehouse Institute
    TDWI is the premier provider of in-depth, high quality education and reasearch in the Business Intelligence and data warehousing industry. TDWI is your source for strategies, techniques, and tools required to successfully design, build, and maintain business intelligence and data warehousing applications.

Visual FoxPro Links

  • FoxCentral
    FoxPro news and resources: What’s new in the Visual FoxPro Community.
  • FoxPro Wiki
    Herein you’ll find over 5850 topics for Visual FoxPro developers, VFP development, and software engineering in general.
  • FoxRockX Magazine
    FoxRockX Magazine is an exciting new FoxPro magazine (offering both online and print versions of its content) that will continue to deliver the great articles that FoxPro Advisor and FoxTalk no longer will.
  • West Wind Technologies
    Here you can find a large white paper archive, a very active message board, Rick’s Web Log and many tools designed to help developers deliver Web and Enterprise solutions with Visual Studio .NET and Visual FoxPro.

Database Resources

  • SSWUG.org
    SSWUG.org is dedicated to bring you the most current information available on a daily basis, designed to assist both developers and administrators. The site is cross-platform, featuring information on SQL Server, Oracle systems, working with DB2, MySQL, and working with XML. We continually research the internet for the best articles and provide you with abstracts, letting you decide if you want to read the entire piece.
  • SQL Server Central
    SSC provides a central hub for the SQL Server Community where they can interact with their peers and access the accurate, relevant, and timely technical information that they need to do their jobs. It’s focus is on educating SQL Server users by providing a central hub for the SQL Server community.
  • SQL Server Magazine
    SQL Server Magazine is the technical guide to managing, mining, building and developing SQL Server databases

 

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