(John G. Spooner) Oracle has purchased database maker Sleepycat for an undisclosed sum. Database giant Oracle announced the acquisition on Feb. 14, saying it would add Sleepycat’s Berkeley DB to its line of embedded databases.
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Ten hacker tricks to exploit SQL Server systems
(Kevin Beaver) Whether it is through manual poking and prodding or the use of security testing tools, malicious attackers employ a variety of tricks to break into SQL Server systems, both inside and outside your firewall. It stands to reason then, if the hackers are doing it, you need to carry the s
Data Mining Tools: Which One is Best for CRM? Part 1
(Robert A. Nisbet) In the past, data mining tool development has focused primarily on providing powerful analytical algorithms. However, the analytical “engines” handle only a small part of the complete task load in a data mining project. As most data miners know, 70 to 90 percent of a data mining p
Highlighting and selecting an item in a DataList
(W. Jansoone) ASP.NET server controls provide a rich environment to produce high quality web sites. Sometimes though, you just want to go that little bit further. DataLists offer a convenient way to render lists with data that can be fully customized using templates. I was last experimenting with a
Getting Started with NHibernate
(Shawn Wildermuth) The hard part of using business objects has always been the tedious nature of writing the data access code to serialize business objects to and from a database. It would be great if there were a way to describe our objects’ relationships to the database and each other without reso
AJAX and Unit Testing – it’s time to mingle
(Jim Plush) I’ve decided to write a little two part introduction into unit testing your AJAX applications with JSUnit. AJAX applications now are adding a new complexity into our development lives. Introducing business logic into our presentation tier. It is now not enough to write some adhoc javascr
Constraint Naming Standard
(Alf Pedersen) Constraint naming standard are important for many reasons, but one of the most important reason is that the SYS_* name oracle assigns to unnamed constraints is not very understandable. By correctly naming all constraints, we can quickly associate a particular constraint with our data
Generating XML Schema Dynamically Using VB.NET 2005: Annotations and Nesting Complex Types
(Jagadish Chaterjee) This is the second article in a series concentrating on generating XML Schema dynamically using Visual Basic 2005. The series is mainly targeted at those who are familiar with XML, XML Schema and the .NET framework.
Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson from Ruby on Rails
(Lenz Grimmer) The Ruby scripting language was first published in 1995, and has a very dedicated and active community of users around it. And with the release of the Ruby on Rails web framework in July 2004, Ruby has emerged as a serious alternative to PHP and Java for developing database-driven web
At A Glance: ASP.net Vs. PHP
(Ian Wilson) Web applications, specifically those relying on back end databases, are typically being created using either Microsoft’s ASP.Net language, or the Open Source alternative language of PHP. Reasons why one might choose one over the other can include: The cost of development tools, or avail