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RSS and AJAX: A Simple News Reader

(Paul Sobocinski) Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) and RSS (Really Simple Syndication) are two technologies that have taken the Web by storm. Most commonly, RSS is used to provide news to either people or other organizations. This is done by serving an “RSS feed” from a website. An RSS feed is

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MySQL Administrator Best Practices

Database administration serves a number of important functions from improving the performance of your database to avoiding a disaster that would result in lost data or costly system downtime. This article will describe some of the fundamental tools and practices programmers, as well as DBAs and SysA

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Express Lockdown

(Raj Mattamal) When talking about Oracle Application Express, I find that the concept of authentication is easy to explain. Access control within applications, however, seems to be a bit more difficult to convey. With that in mind, I’d like to walk through the process of creating an application and