(MuthuKumar Arjunan) This article explains how a SpreadsheetML document (.xlsx file) can be converted into a generic xml data source file that can be used by heterogeneous systems. It then binds this generic xml data source to an ASP.NET data grid to display the data in a browser.
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IBM’s Integration Super Server
(Eric Roch) IBM’s strategy for data integration based on the Ascential, Venetica, Unicorn and CrossAccess acquisitions will soon come to fruition. These products will support SOA in the role of providing information as a service as well as SOA metadata and semantics.
Spilling the Beans on Open Source Applications Servers
(Rikki Kirzner) Open source software is playing an increasingly significant role in the enterprise, however, the adoption of open source application servers has been slow.
New SQL Truncation Attacks And How To Avoid Them
(Bala Neerumalla) Exploits using SQL injection have drawn a lot of attention for their ability to get through firewalls and intrusion detection systems to compromise your data layers. Whether it’s a first-order or second-order injection, if you look at the basic code pattern, it is similar to any ot
Formatting AutoGenerateColumns in an ASP.NET Grid
(Mike Ellison) There are occasions when one may work with a data source that provides dynamic columns. A stored procedure that aggregates year-to-date totals, with columns representing the months-to-date, is an example. Towards the beginning of the year, there are only a few columns of data; towards
Getting to know the Atom Publishing Protocol, Part 1: Create and edit Web resources with the Atom Publishing Protocol
(James Snell) During the past few of years, Web content syndication technology has grown in importance both on the Internet and behind the firewall. In July of 2005, the Internet Engineering Task Force’s (IETF) Atom Publishing Format and Protocol Working Group (known simply as “atompub”) published t
MySQL and Character Sets
(Ian Gilfillan) In spite of the dominance of English for business purposes, we still live in a multilingual world. At some point, most serious MySQL developers and DBA’s will come across the need to store data from other languages and these may require other character sets or collations.
IBM DB2 UDB Enterprise Server Edition V8 for UNIX Backup and Recovery Using a N Series Storage System
(Alex Osuna, Jawahar Lal and Roger Sanders) This IBM Redpaper describes how the N series Snapshot and SnapRestore technologies can be used to back up and restore an IBM DB2 UDB database. Specifically, this report covers: – The key advantages of the NetApp Snapshot technology – The infrastructur
Oracle Ubuntu? That would rock!
(Lewis Cunningham) I know rumors of Oracle having its own Linux distro have been floating around for a while. I even wrote about one such rumor back in June, Oracle: The biggest Linux vendor you’ve never heard of.
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