By Lisa Vaas – A worm code-named “Voyager Alpha Force” that targets Microsoft Corp. SQL Server databases is roaming the Internet, trying to turn insecure database servers into launching pads for applications running out of FTP sites in the Philippines.
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Querying When Table and Column Names are Unknown
by N. Venkatagiri – If you have to run a query for some data but don’t know the table name and the column name, the following query will run the query. Replace the TEXT_VALUE with the text you want to search.
Administrative Assistant for DB2
Administrative Assistant for DB2 makes it easier to manage a DB2 environment on S/390 effectively and safely, while reducing the price of ownership.Product Announcement
Generate Audit Table Trigger Code
This code will generate code to do a column-by-column comparison against a table, assuming that you are joining the inserted table (aliased as “i”) with the deleted table (aliased as “d”) in a trigger:
IBM seeks to expand data management platform
By Paul Krill – IBM’s labs are at work on a number of improvements to IBM’s DB2 data management platform, focusing on data warehousing and integration as well as on autonomic, or self-managing, computing systems, company officials said on Thursday.
Collaboration tools enable groups to communicate in a virtual world
By Michael Dougherty – The information age is on the verge of becoming the inundation age. Separating the valuable information from the less useful is one of the biggest challenges most workers face today. But they shouldn’t have to personally separate the wheat from the chaff. Instead, tools should
Picfolio 0.2.3 – a photo gallery generator using XML and XSLT
Picfolio is a static photo gallery generator using XML and XSLT. It has built-in support for thumbnail and midnail generation, and optional support for EXIF data in images. Picfolio is high quality software written in C++ and is well documented.
Discover key features of DOM Level 3 Core, Part 1
In this two-part article, the authors present some of the key features brought by the W3C Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Working Draft and show you how to use them with examples in Java code. This first part covers manipulating nodes and text, and attaching user data onto nodes.
Perform XSLT Transformations in .NET 1.1
by Dan Wahlin – .NET 1.1 sports a slightly different XslTransform object with more secure Load() and Transform() methods. Learn how to perform XSLT transformations successfully in .NET 1.1.
Managing Oracle9iAS Release 2
By Ken Jacobs – Enterprise applications are becoming increasingly sophisticated; by extension, the platforms and servers that support them have had to become advanced, flexible, and more fully featured. A critical element to any worthwhile application server is its ability to integrate these various