(Jeff Hewitt) From authenticating application users against Active Directory, to programmatically adding users to Active Directory groups, it seems that a developer in a Microsoft supported environment is never too far away from Active Directory. At least this has been true in my experience. In rece
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Stateful Web Application Firewalls with .NET
(Shreeraj Shah) A Web Application Firewall (WAF) is emerging as the first line of defense for Web applications. A WAF provides sound content filtering on both incoming and outgoing HTTP(S) traffic. Its working is simple: It looks for malicious attack vectors arriving at the Web application—vectors t
Oracle’s PL/SQL Lock Timer
(James F. Koopmann) The amount of time a user or application has slept through the USER_LOCK.SLEEP or DBMS_LOCK.SLEEP procedures.
VIP Dependencies Lifted in Oracle 10.2.0.3
(Alex Gorbachev) Oracle CRS 10.2.0.3 patchset brings long awaited removal of previously required dependencies of databases and ASM instances on a VIP. Actually, 10.2.0.2 patchset lifted the requirement for dependency between ASM instance and VIP but not for database instances. In 10.2.0.2 this depen
Working with REF CURSOR in PL/SQL
(Jagadish Chatarji) This article introduces you to the REF CURSOR in Oracle PL/SQL. I’ve included numerous examples to help you understand how to work with REF CURSOR.
Video: Creating an N-Layer ASP.NET Application
(Dan Wahlin) In this video tutorial I walk through the fundamentals of creating an N-Layer ASP.NET application. What is “N-Layer” you ask? N-Layer can be interpreted many different ways, but I generally use the term to mean separating presentation, business and data code into individual code layers.
Bind Objects to a DataGridView Control
(Scott Lysle) This article describes a simple approach to displaying object property data within a data grid view control. The example includes a test application comprised of a simple data container class and a sample application used to bind and display object data within a data grid view control.
SQL defined database: Enjoy the view
(Paul Tuohy) I am sure you have heard that SQL is now the preferred means of defining a database as opposed to traditional RPG. You may be under the impression that this does not affect you since you are not defining any new databases, just using the ones you have been using for years. (R)
SQL MERGE – no more figuring which SQL statement to use
(Willie Favero) Ever write an application that has to have logic to determine if a row exists before it is inserted. If the row doesn’t exist, the row is inserted. However, if the row does exist, then you have to do an update. You have to code multiple SQL statements, if it’s a distributed applicati
Ten predictions for XML in 2007
(Elliotte Rusty Harold) 2007 is shaping up to be the most exciting year since the community drove off the XML highway into the Web services swamp half a decade ago. XQuery, Atom, Atom Publishing Protocol (APP), XProc, and GRRDL are all promising new power. Some slightly older technologies like XForm