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SQL Server crisis advice

By Ellen O’Brien – Security specialist David Litchfield answers questions for SearchDatabase about what he calls the most severe security threat to the SQL Server in its history. Litchfield, Next Generation Security Software co-founder and a frequent guest speaker at Black Hat conferences, stresses

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Oracle Developer

To help you understand and leverage the latest advances in Java technology and Oracle application development tools, Oracle Magazine has created a special section just for developers like you—developers who need to exploit the power and flexibility of Java, want to make the most of Oracle’s applicat

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Hiding the Oracle password

By Rochus Mission – When you have more than one Oracle database, you may be required to supply the name of which database you want to log on to. If you are using SQL*PLus, for instance, you will need to provide three login parameters (username, password, and db_name) on the same line.

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Overcoming OpenXML hangups

By Rich Rollman – If you’re writing an application that uses XML as a data-interchange format, you need a way to extract the data from the XML document and store that data in your database. T-SQL’s OpenXML keyword is a convenient way to insert, delete, and update data in SQL Server 2000. OpenXML cre