Incorporating semantic technologies into applications is more practical than ever, and so the uses – and range of users – have become very broad. As leaders in this industry find ways to incorporate these advances into new products, we have to be as innovative with the human element… the user experi
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Security Questions: TRUNCATE TABLE Permissions
(Jason Strate) As I mentioned in the introductory post, during the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work’s Training on the T’s, I received a large number of questions that there wasn’t time to answer. Instead of just a re-cap of all of the questions, instead I’ve opted to p
Introduction to C Programming
(Paul Deitel and Harvey Deitel) The C language facilitates a structured and disciplined approach to computer-program design. In this chapter we introduce C programming and present several examples that illustrate many important features of C. In Chapters 3 and 4 we present an introduction to structu
Configure Oracle fine-grained access control for network services
(Matthew Morris) Oracle has focused on increased security for several years, and Oracle Database 11g in particular was packed with several features intended to harden the database against attacks.
DB2 10.1 LUW Certification 611 notes 1 : Physical Design
(Philip) As part of my career development it has been on the cards for me to do some certification at my current company for about four and a half years, and now they are giving me some time for it again.
Deep Dive on BLU Acceleration in DB2 10.5, Super Analytics, Super Easy
(Cindy Russell) IBM Distinguished Engineer Sam Lightstone takes you through the technical details of the ground-breaking new BLU Acceleration technology for data-intensive analytics workloads.
Reads and Writes Figures from V$FILESTAT
(Andrew Reid) You can get the number of reads and writes your database has done on each datafile since the instance was started from V$FILESTAT. I have looked at the number of writes (PHYWRTS) before but I do not believe I have ever looked at the number of reads (PHYRDS).
jQuery Invalid XML Error with parseXML
(Chris) I just had the most frustrating past 2 hours. I was using $.parseXML in jQuery and for some reason I kept getting an “Invalid XML” error when I knew my XML was perfectly fine.
SSWUGtv: TrueCrypt – how do you use it, how do you implement it…what IS it?
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Understanding the SQL Server 2012 Licensing Model
(Derek Colley) You are a database professional considering or implementing a move to SQL Server 2012 from your current database configuration. You’ve heard horror stories about the SQL Server 2012 licensing model – double the cost, double the complexity. You need to find the best-value to convince y