(Mary Ann Davidson) It occurs to me as I reflect upon my 14-odd years in security at Oracle how mainstream security has become during that time. For example, most well-known security conferences are now dominated by businesspeople instead of security kahunas. I started attending these conferences wh
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Introduction to message-based applications in SQL Server 2005
(Tim Chapman) Message-based applications are not a new concept but have been traditionally difficult to write from scratch. In this first article in my three-part series about a new platform for creating asynchronous messaging applications, I discuss the concept of message-based applications, and th
Hash Partition as a Design Method
(Linchi Shea) SQL Server 2005 does not support hash partition as a product feature. But that doesn’t mean you can’t apply the concept of hash partition in your application or database design.
Data Migration: Plan to Succeed
(Ashish Nadkarni) Data migration is the process of migrating data from one location to another. It is not something new to the storage industry. Almost every IT organization has had to move data at some point or the other. There are different reasons for doing so: hardware gets obsolete and has to b
Mastering Ajax, Part 9: Using the Google Ajax Search API
(Brett McLaughlin) So far in this series, the focus was exclusively on situations in which your client Web pages make requests to your server-side scripts and programs. This is how probably 80 to 90 percent of Ajax applications — asynchronous Web applications that use the XMLHttpRequest object — w
Perspectives on ASP.NET AJAX
(Dino Esposito) Unless you’ve spent the past 12 months disconnected from the Net-perhaps vacationing on a remote tropical island or participating in a reality game show-you should know a few things about AJAX. But I’ll do a quick refresher just in case.
Robyn Page’s SQL Server Cursor Workbench
(Robyn Page) The purpose of this series of workshops is to try to encourage you to take a practical approach to SQL skills. I always find I learn things much quicker by trying things out and experimenting. Please don’t just run the samples, but make changes, alter the data, look for my mistakes, try
The truth about MySQL Community and Enterprise
Late in 2006 MySQL decided to move to a split distribution model, Community and Enterprise. A lot has (apparently) changed since then, yet nothing has really changed since then.
Extending TableAdapters for Dynamic SQL
(MikeInNH) This article discusses ADO.NET TableAdapters – especially how to extend TableAdapter functionality using Visual Basic .NET.
ASP.NET: Make GridView Control Accessible
(Mads Kristensen) The GridView is a new web control in ASP.NET 2.0 and is an improvement of the old DataGrid.