(Martin Lansche) IBM WebSphere Application Server stores system passwords in files that are simply encoded. To support clients who want to implement their own password storage mechanism, WebSphere Application Server has provided a System Programming Interface (SPI) to do so. Encrypting these system
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The Downside of MySQL Auto-reconnect
(Ike Walker) A few days ago I was doing some cleanup on a passive master database using the MySQL client. I didn’t want my commands to be replicated so I executed set sql_log_bin=0 in my session.
ODI – Integrating more social data
(David Allan) Carrying on from the earlier post on integrating social data from Facebook Graph API, the functions you need to integrate JSON are here for download. I have wrapped into 2 functions, there is a readme in the zip describing what you need to do;
SQL SERVER – A New Approach to Scale .NET Applications
(Pinal Dave) In a previous article, I wrote about scale-up vs. scale-out architectures using SQL Server and NuoDB as examples. NuoDB recently announced the general availability of their latest product release, 1.1, and it looks like they’ve made significant progress in improving their Microsoft sup
Creating Secure .NET Applications
(Sam Nasr) Application security is always an important topic in day-to-day development, but it doesn’t always get the attention it deserves. There are many reasons you should be concerned with security. Over the years the value of data — to corporations and hackers alike — has increased significan
Participate in DB2 Communities
(Susan Visser) There are several communities built around DB2 that many people are participating in. It may not be clear which is the best community to be involved with. We had a discussion with several people at IDUG last week and the discussion went into the pros and cons of forums.
Oracle Events Latency Visualization and Heat Maps in SQL*plus
(Luca Canali) This post is about a technique for Oracle performance tuning, the use of heat maps to investigate wait event latency (and in particular I/O-related latency). This post also discusses a SQL*plus-based script/tool I have developed to help with this type of monitoring and performance dril
DB2 Tech Talk: Technical Tour of DB2 10.5 with BLU Acceleration
(Cindy Russell) Join IBM Distinguished Engineer Berni Schiefer for a Technical Tour of the all new DB2 10.5 with BLU Acceleration.
Modal Input Forms in ASP.NET MVC
(Dino Esposito) Forms in websites have, for a long time, languished in their classic clunky pattern of browser-led ‘submit’ of content, using the FORM tag. As websites grow nearer to applications in their user-experience, so better is required.
WPF: How to navigate between displays
(Ged Mead) You might wonder why I’ve used the word ‘displays’ rather than ‘window’ or ‘page’. The reason is that in WPF you have the choice of more than one form-like display area or container – window and page being the main ones. If you’re new to WPF, you’ll probably pick the WPF Application tem