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Volume 808 - August 2008   
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Business Objects


Custom Access Levels – FINALLY!

by Joe Roberts, Principal Consultant, BECP, SLE, MCP

Since version 8 I have maintained my own personal “wish list” of features we really need. With each new version I have been able to check off one or more of them. However, the item at number 1 has remained; user defined access levels.

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Crystal Reports 


Why upgrade to Crystal 2008?

by Aaron Zechman, MCSE, BOCP – CR

What’s new and exciting in Crystal Reports 2008 and why should you upgrade. Of course, there are the new features such as dynamic sorting, interactive parameters, optional prompts and importing flash files but these are things that you are able to read about on the what’s new page of the Business Objects website and do not necessarily deal with some of the functionality changing inside the Crystal Reports 2008 software itself.

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Crystal Xcelsius

Using the Xcelsius Crystal Report Data Consumer

by Sean Beal, Sr. Consultant, CRCP, MCP

Xcelsius models become exponentially more useful when they are connected to live data instead of disconnected snapshots. A simple way to accomplish this is to embed them in a pre-existing Crystal Report using the Xcelsius Crystal Report Data Consumer.

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SQL Server


Has your Database been Infected by a SQL Injection Attack?

by Charles Tournear, Senior Consultant, MCT, MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA, CRCP

If you have a web application that is open to the public and have a form for collection information, then you may be susceptible or have already been hit by a SQL Injection Attack. This is not a virus and therefore will not be caught by any virus checker. The number of pages that have been affected are estimated to range from 500,000 to 3,000,000.

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Data Integrator


Data Services XI 3.0 Overview

by Thomas Hinkle, BI Consultant, CRCP, DI Instructor

If you are looking for the latest upgrade for Data Integrator XIR2 you will find it in Data Services XI 3.0. The newest release of Data Integrator is now combined with Data Quality to become Data Services.

Unifying data quality and integration into one platform creates one tool to move, transform, and improve data. It provides one development, runtime, management, security, and data connectivity environment.

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