By Jonathan Lurie and Timothy Stockstill – Rewriting applications because of database security gaps is costly and time consuming. One of the easiest ways to avoid rewrites is to make security a priority during the initial database design and to enforce security at each tier. We’ll discuss som
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Oracle Announces New Oracle9i Developer Release For Jaguar
by Bryan Chaffin – Apple got a big boost in the enterprise market as Oracle released a new developer release for Oracle9i, its enterprise level database solution. The new release is designed to work with Mac OS X Server, and Oracle is pushing Xserve as the preferred hardware.
ManekiNeko: RELAX NG meets XNI
Andy Clark has recently updated ManekiNeko, his Xerces Native Interface (XNI)-based ‘parser configuration’ for validating XML documents against RELAX NG grammars and accessing information in those documents using standard APIs such as DOM and SAX.
XML Matters: Roundup of XML editors, Part 1
By David Mertz, Ph.D. – In this two-part series on XML editors, David looks at the progress of commercial tools in the year-and-a-half since he last looked at this tools category. These tools have progressed from largely cosmetic wrappers around text editors to fleshed-out development environments t
XML Web Services: Means to an End
By Darryl K. Taft – For the second day in a row at the XML Web Services One conference here, a keynote speaker got up and signaled the impending end to the Web services era, at least on a standards level. Don Box, an architect in Microsoft Corp.’s developer division told an audience of Web se
Microsoft Turns On SQL Server Notification Services
By Matt Hicks – Microsoft Corp. released a new feature for its SQL Server 2000 database that can generate personalized notifications to a range of devices, including mobile devices.
Oracle Navigates Choppy Seas
Faced with diminished demand for its database software, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is tacking in several directions: Borrow from Microsoft’s high-volume model, mix well with IBM’s outsourcing approach, and set sail. Literally.
TOAD Pocket Reference for Oracle
Book by Patrick McGrath, Jim McDaniel – The Tool for Oracle Application Developers (TOAD) is a popular graphical user interface for the Oracle database that allows programmers to build, test, debug, and format their code within an interactive development environment. The only book in print for the c
Testing Database Options in SQL Server 2000
In addition to testing a SQL Server configuration, it can be helpful to test a database’s settings. This article contains a stored procedure you can use to inspect a database and report whether any of its options differ from the default settings of a new SQL Server 2000 installation.
What’s best for DBAs? GUI or T-SQL commands?
By Vyas Kondreddi – This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using the SQL Server graphical administration tools (Enterprise Manager) versus the T-SQL administrative commands, with specific examples. Read up and decide for yourself, if you want to be a point-and-click DBA or a T-SQ