By Margie Semilof – Malicious crackers love to crash corporate networks via Web servers, but Windows administrators should spend more time locking down the place where they keep the company crown jewels — the database servers.From an installation and configuration standpoint, Microsoft SQL
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SQL Server Database Settings Performance Checklist
by Brad M. McGehee – This fifth part of the SQL Server Performance Audit series covers SQL Server database options and configuration settings.
Telephia, Oracle Test Wireless Enterprise Apps
By Bob Woods – Telephia Inc., which provides market and network performance intelligence for the wireless industry, said it is collaborating with Oracle to provide wireless enterprise customers with a solution for testing and analyzing wireless application performance, built using the wireless capab
Introducing HLink
by Kendall Grant Clark – When the first public XHTML 2.0 Working Draft was released in early August, one of the most common reactions, at least in the XML developer community, was to wonder why the HTML Working Group (HWG) wasn’t using XLink. XHTML 2.0’s refusal to use XLink as its hypertext linking
Get ready for XForms
Traditional HTML forms violate many of the tenets of good markup language design, frequently mixing presentation and data. In this article, Joel Rivera and Len Taing introduce you to XForms, an extension of XHTML that represents the next generation of Web forms. Though XForms is still in an embryoni
Microsoft Previews Web Services Kit
By Darryl K. Taft – Although working in lock step with partners on every other important Web services standard, Microsoft Corp. took a step on its own to advance Web services capabilities.The company announced the availability of the technical preview for the Microsoft Web Services Developme
XML, The Perl Way
Tree-oriented Perl API to XML documents, built on top of XML::Parser; this release adds feature enhancements, bug fixes, and compatibility with the latest version of the expat library (1.95.5).
XUL Defines New User Interface Options
XUL, a new Netscape/Mozilla XML dialect that describes the elements of a traditional user interface, may just change the focus of your browser development efforts. Faster and cleaner than HTML, XUL may be the quickest way yet to code a UI. Nigel McFarlane explains how easy it is to build complex int
Grid Computing: Electrifying Web Services
By Dirk Hamstra – Grid computing makes it possible to dynamically share and coordinate dispersed, heterogeneous computing resources. Flexibility and ubiquity are essential characteristics of Web services technologies such as WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI. The Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) combines t
IBM, MS reject MySQL
By Paul Krill – AS INTEREST IN open-source databases builds, data management veterans IBM and Microsoft argue that alternative open-source databases such as MySQL lack the strength and functionality for enterprise deployment.