(Richard Stucke) Here is a pseudo random number generator function that is simple to use and has the added capability of limiting the range of random numbers produced. There are times when you don’t want just any random number from 1 thru 9999; for example, you may want all the random number to be f
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HOW TO: Using DB-LIBRARY in a Threaded Application
This article provides tips for using DB-LIBRARY in a threaded application.
Database Battle Heats Up
By Lisa Vaas and John S. McCright – Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp. will ratchet up their ongoing database battle with each announcing new and upgraded features that hit at the other’s strengths.
Book Review: Writing Secure Code
By Vyas Kondreddi – The cover page of this book says, “Practical strategies and proven techniques for building secure applications in a networked world”. And that’s exactly what you’ll find inside this book. The authors are top security experts, from Windows XP team and Microsoft’s new trustworthy c
Lumigent Technologies Introduces Software to Audit Database Changes
Lumigent Technologies, Inc. today introduced Entegra to help enterprises create audit records of data access to fulfill internal business practice requirements and insure regulatory compliance. Entegra is the only product to provide a complete audit trail of information on data access, including cha
Ontology Building: A Survey of Editing Tools
by Michael Denny – As the hype of past decades fades, the current heir to the artificial intelligence legacy may well be ontologies. Evolving from semantic network notions, modern ontologies are proving quite useful. And they are doing so without relying on the jumble of rule-based techniques common
OASIS Ratifies SAML 1.0
A specification considered a key factor in securing Web services has been ratified as a standard by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).
XQuery: An XML Query Language
By Donald Chamberlin – In IBM Systems Journal Volume 41, Number 4 (2002), pages 597-615 (with 20 references). “The World Wide Web Consortium has convened a working group to design a query language for Extensible Markup Language (XML) data sources. This new query language, called XQuery, is still evo
Oracle Magazine’s Editors’ Choice Awards
By Barbara Assadi and Leslie Steere – Oracle’s products are used by literally hundreds of thousands of people around the world, so the challenge of selecting fewer than a dozen Oracle users, managers, and executives to receive our first ever Editors’ Choice Awards was both a gargantuan task and an i
Oracle Tries to Smooth Rocky Relations with User Group
By Songini, Marc L – ORACLE CORP. last week showed a beefed-up presence at the fall conference of its independent applications user group, signalling that a well-publicized rift between the vendor and the group is continuing to mend.