By Irving Wladawsky-Berger – Technology advances continue at their torrid pace. Moore’s Law is alive and well, the Internet is evolving in reach, capability and reliability, and new technologies like grid computing, Web services and intelligent software are enabling the integration of resources and
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How To: Insert identity values using XML Bulk Load
You can use XML Bulk Load to insert records into tables that use identity columns. Here is a simple example to demonstrate how this can be done. First create a table in your database.
DB2 Security Dinged Again
By Lisa Vaas – IBM’s DB2 UDB enterprise relational database has two more holes, adding up to a total of six reported within the past three weeks.
Report: DOJ Readies Antitrust Case Against Oracle
By Renee Boucher Ferguson – A report published Thursday suggests that the U.S. Department of Justice is readying its antitrust suit against Oracle Corp. stemming from the company’s bid to take over ERP rival PeopleSoft Inc.
OASIS ratifies SAML 1.1
By Paul Roberts – The OASIS Internet standards consortium said that its members ratified SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) Version 1.1 as an official standard, approving changes to the specification will improve interoperability with other Web services security standards.
Oracle Technical Interview
Uncertain about the technical interview process? James Koopmann offers 65 technical questions to get you up to speed for that technical interview.
How to Perform SQL Server Row-by-Row Operations Without Cursors
by David VanDeSompele – Boost SQL Server performance by avoiding cursors using this row-by-row processing technique.
SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3a
SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3a (SP3a) addresses specific issues discovered in SQL Server 2000 since its ship date.
Lawsuit Takes on Microsoft Security Flaws
Microsoft this week was served with a class-action lawsuit surrounding the platform’s vulnerabilities to worms and computer viruses. Legal action echoes assertions presented in a security report issued by an industry association in Washington last week.
Yes/No String
I have a string containing Yes/No answers to a series of questions. How can I quickly count the number of Yes answers and the number of No answers in the string?