(Penny Crosman) If you want to find out what Brad and Angelina are up to, Google is a great search tool. Type in the celebrity names and poof, you get a list of the latest stories about the Brangelina baby-to-be. But if you need a technical or business-oriented search, Internet-style search technolo
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Perfect Partner for Web Services: Getting to Know XForms
(Craig Caulfield) HTML forms are one of the best-known techniques for gathering data from a user and submitting that data to a server. However, HTML forms are only simple tools and don’t natively support some of the features needed by current Web applications such as sophisticated data validation. A
LAMP lights the way in open-source security
(Joris Evers) The so-called LAMP stack of open-source software has a lower bug density–the number of bugs per thousand lines of code–than a baseline of 32 open-source projects analyzed, Coverity, a maker of code analysis tools, announced.
Learn to avoid the mutating table problem in Oracle
(Scott Robinson) Tables are everything to IT database managers in ERP database environments. The organization of database tables, their relationships, and the manner in which they are managed are a fair indicator of the overall quality of performance you can expect from the system.
Searching XML with XQuery
(William Brogden) XQuery is intended to be a language for stating queries into XML data sources that is concise, powerful and easy to use. Supporters draw a parallel between SQL for relational databases and XQuery for XML. Defining the XQuery language standard is still at the W3C Candidate Recommend
Configuring RHEL/Centos 4.2 Server for Oracle RAC 10g R2 Readiness
(Tarry Singh) In part 7 of this series, we started a detailed explanation of setting up a RHEL 4.2 or Centos 4.2 OS. This article works towards our goal by configuring the Network and Linux servers for Oracle readiness. In addition, we will take a brief look at Vmware Virtual Center.
ASP.NET Validation Control – A Closer View
(chandan_is) Validation is an important part of any web application. Validation control is one of the best features that the .Net Environment provides. The era of writing big, time-consuming codes for validating user inputs is now a thing of the past. The drag-n-drop feature of validation control sa
Forrester Report – Oracle RAC Gains Momentum
In the past year, Forrester has interviewed 35 Oracle customers using Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) to find out about their implementation. Most customers stated that RAC met or exceeded their high-availability requirements to support mission-critical database applications. (R)
How Powerful Is Your StAX Parser?
(Anghel Leonard) This tip is a simple application that demonstrates the possibilities of your StAX parser by setting the XMLInputFactory properties to true/false. The StAX parser tested in this example is the BEA and JCP parser.
Normalization for dummies
(Samuel Isaac) Most database designers probably don’t set out trying to “normalize their database”. They just come out with this nice, logical design that happens to be normalized (usually up to the 3rd Normal Form) though that wasn’t the primary goal. The primary goal is usually performance.