This article provides a set of solid guidelines about what you should do and what you shouldn’t do when working with W3C XML Schema.
Author: SSWUG Research
Oracle and SAP chase homeland security money on eve of Gulf War II
Tensions may be mounting with Iraq, but the renewed emphais on homeland security in the US has applications vendors such as Oracle and SAP could mean rich pickings.
SQL Slammer used British code
By Iain Thomson – ‘Straight cut-and-paste job’, says original author.Code from a UK security expert has emerged as the driving force behind the SQL Slammer worm that ravaged servers over the weekend.
Microsoft Revises Five Security Bulletins
Microsoft has recently revised five security bulletins.
Murach’s SQL for SQL Server
One way to help educate your current developers (or become a SQL Server savvy developer on your own) is to loan or give them a copy of the new book, Murach’s SQL for SQL Server. If you have been in the computer field for a little while, you have probably heard of Murach, which is a publishing compan
The Big Lessons of a Little Worm
While the chaos caused by the Slammer worm on Saturday, Jan. 25 has subsided, the tiny program that gummed up the Internet leaves some painful insights into the immense damage a voracious invader can inflict — not only on its direct targets but to secondary ones as well.
Oracle Sets Up Supplier Advisory Board
By Renee Boucher Ferguson – Oracle Corp. on Tuesday announced the formation of its Supplier Advisory Board, a body created to help improve supplier relationship management processes in line with evolving business requirements.
Slammer Worm: A Blow to Remote Storage?
David Morgenstern looks at the SQL Slammer worm and sees a threat to the storage industry. Will the latest Internet disruption snap consumer patience with remote-storage schemes?
Performance of BI Systems Built with Microsoft SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence
Learn about performance experiments conducted on a business intelligence (BI) system built with Microsoft SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence (BI Accelerator). Based on the results of these experiments, recommendations are made for the operation of similar systems.
Definitive Datafile Data Report
by Jonathan Reinharz – The following script quickly and, more importantly, efficiently provides both tablespace status and structural data. Datafiles are grouped by tablespace and ordered by the percentage of free space in them. Output is made clearer with the use of literals (%, MB).