By George V. Hulme – Companies are prepping to re-patch Windows systems to prevent a Microsoft vulnerability and the high likelihood of a second Blaster-like worm that could target the new security flaw.
Author: SSWUG Research
Preventing Public Access to the DB2 Database
By Marin Komadina – Concerned about who is walking unchallenged through the Public group door into your database? Marin Komadina examines the security aspects of the DB2 database default PUBLIC group.
RepAgent for DB2: Throughput Performance
This document contains information about increasing throughput performance of Replication Agent for DB2.
DB2.Net, Windows Support
Hurray! .NET support is now available in DB2 UDB 8.1.2! Check out the news story here for more information about DB2 UDB integration in the Windows environment.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-039
Buffer Overrun In RPCSS Service Could Allow Code Execution (824146)
XpressApps offers insertXpress to Copy Data From One SQL Server Database to Another
by Brad M. McGehee – Sometimes, it is the simplest of things that take the most time. For example, let’s say that you want to move data from a table in one database to an identical table in another database. There are lots of reasons to do this, such as:
All About Nothing
By Russ Whitney – OLAP cubes are notorious for having lots of empty (or null) cells. Including these empty cells in your result sets can bog down your analysis applications. But you can use these tricks to eliminate empties.
Tools Give Oracle DBAs Better Protection, More Control
By Lisa Vaas – The long-anticipated unveiling of Oracle Corp.’s grid vision at OracleWorld here Monday was greeted by the rollout of new products to support Oracle databases, including extended data protection from DataMirror’s iReflect high-availability software and extended cross-platform support
Relational Revolutionary
By Kim Moutsos – Where would we be without Edgar F. Codd? Codd, who died in April at the age of 79, elevated database management to a science when he described a relational model of data — one firmly grounded in predicate logic and mathematics — in a series of papers published between 1969 and 1981.
The Grid: Computing As Utility
By Michael Miley – Grid-based “computing as utility” is poised to take off. Here’s how Oracle—and Oracle Database 10g—is making it possible.