Steven Pemberton recently announced on the public XForms mailing list the results of a gathering of XForms implementers, representing over 20 ongoing implementations of XForms.
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Depth-first Grant Tree Traversal
by Kirill Richine – The script below provides a mechanism to depth-first traverse and list the contents of these trees. The first block takes a grantee as argument and lists the grant tree for it. The second block takes a privilege as argument and lists the grantee tree for it.
Databases Ripe for Attacks
By Lisa Vaas – One reason the Slammer worm was able to wreak so much havoc is database administrators are loathe to install patches that haven’t been thoroughly tested.
Partitioning Tips
By Itzik Ben-Gan – Here are some tips about using partitioned views, including how to circumvent the limitation on inserting data into tables through a partitioned view, and problems with using constants in the partitioning criteria.
The Curse and Blessings of Dynamic SQL
by Erland Sommarskog – Use with care: about dynamic SQL in stored procedures in MS SQL Server, why use stored procedures at all, the conflicts between the virtues of stored procedures and the effects of dynamic SQL, and more.
Conditional Execution
by Bob DuCharme – Most programming languages provide some means of conditional execution, which allows a program to execute an instruction or block of instructions only if a particular condition is true. Many programming languages do this with if statements; the XSLT equivalent is the xsl:if instruc
XMLBeans
by Hitesh Seth – Recently, BEA released a beta of XMLBeans, an XML token stream-based technology that provides easy navigation of XML documents using a combination of interfaces – Java types (which have been mapped to the relevant XML Schema-based types) and native XML cursor- or XQuery-based access
XMill 0.8, a user-configurable XML compressor
from Uche Ogbuji – XMill separates structure, layout and data in an XML document and distributes data elements into separate data streams (int, char, string, base64, etc), which are then compressed using gzip, bzip2 or ppmdi.
Oracle and Dell cosy up on open standards enterprise offering
Oracle and Dell cosied up to one another in New York this week to pitch their deal to sell clustered server systems to enteprise customers using an open standards philosophy. Dell’s strategy is to sell servers primarily using two to four processors that can be combined, or clustered, to boost
Oracle 9i Release 2 Developments for PL/SQL Collections
Steven Feuerstein and Bryn Llewellyn explore the extended flexibility of the collection syntax, storage, and access in Oracle 9i Release 2, which makes it possible to write simpler, more efficient code. Steven is a coauthor of Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 3rd Edition.