by Norman Cillo – I have encountered a small little ODBC issue on a number of clients. This issue revolved around the ODBC administrator client program and its display of the System DSN names.
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Flaw Puts SQL Servers at Risk
By Dennis Fisher – A Russian security researcher claims he has discovered a flaw in Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server 2000 which gives an attacker the ability to either crash the server or execute malicious code on the machine.Microsoft is aware of the advisory and is investigating the issue, the
Oracle patches two holes in 9i database
By Sam Costello – Oracle Corp. released patches for two security holes in its 9i database last week that could have allowed an attacker to take over or run code on affected systems.
Creating a link for connecting two databases
By Shailesh Yagnik – Suppose you want to query both a remote and a local database. To do this, you need to create a database link so that users can get the results from two databases in one SQL query from the SQL prompt.
Handling large data files efficiently with Java
By Serguei Eremenko – Java provides a simple standardized API for reading and writing to and from external resources such as files, databases, and sockets. But even though the Java I/O API covers a wide spectrum of applications’ demands, correct usage of it is not as simple as it may seem. Inefficie
Tip: Namespaces and versioning
By Uche Ogbuji – You can use several techniques for versioning XML schemas, such as defining special root attributes or using the DTD. This tip discusses how to use XML namespaces to version formats.
Mozilla 1.0 Released
The Mozilla open-source Web browser, which has probably been the most sharply scrutinized software development project in history, has reached version 1.0. Standards compliance has always been a primary goal of Mozilla, and XML standards have taken no back seat in the feature set.
XML Programming: Web Applications and Web Services With JSP and ASP
XML Programming: Web Applications and Web Services with JSP and ASP is a fast-moving introduction to XML technologies for programmers. It is designed to be useful for programmers working in a number of languages, primarily Java and VB/VBScript, but also C, C++, Python, and JavaScript. Authors Alexan
Exam Review – The SQL Server Challenge
by Anil Desai – You don’t have to be a DBA for a worldwide organization to pass this test, but you’d better know all the ins and outs of large database administration.
Move Databases Between Computers that are Running SQL Server
This step-by-step article describes how to move SQL Server user databases and most common SQL Server components between computers that are running SQL Server. The steps described in this article assume that you will not move the master , model , tempdb , or msdb system databases. The steps pr