(Yasutomo Nakayama and Eisuke Kanzaki) IBM InfoSphere Guardium Data Redaction provides a Java API that allows your custom application to use the redaction server. This article describes how to use the API in three typical document-redaction scenarios.
Other News
Configure SQL Server Database Mirroring Using SSMS
(Brady Upton) I have a need to setup SQL Server Database Mirroring in my environment. I understand it can be complicated to setup. Can you provide an example on setting up SQL Server Database Mirroring? Check out this tip for a basic look at how to setup this SQL Server feature.
Life After Upgrades
PASS 2011 Starts Today I’m sure many of us would like to be at PASS. For those of us who are not attending, don’t forget that there will be some interesting content available online. Check out www.sqlpass.org/summit for more details. If you’re attending the summit, don’t forget you have the opportunity to make donations helping the homeless in the Redmond […]
ODBC to Become the New Microsoft SQL Server Connectivity Standard
ODBC to Become the New Microsoft SQL Server Connectivity Standard Microsoft has announced that it will be phasing out support for the proprietary OLE DB database driver in SQL Server. This is a bit of old news…but something you are going to need to take into account sooner or later. The next release of SQL Server code named Denali will […]
Playing with transclusion
(Norman Walsh) I’ve mentioned transclusion before (and before that). The DocBook community would like a better solution for transclusion in DocBook documents but the problems that DocBook authors face with respect to ID/IDREF issues are hardly unique to DocBook. In an ideal world, I think we’d figur
Parallel Universe
(d_d_f) An oft-used (and subsequently oft-abused) execution path is parallel execution, usually ‘instigated’ by some sort of parallel hint. Developers, albeit with the best intentions, misuse and abuse this mechanism because of faulty logic, that ‘logic’ being that if one process executes in X amoun
Visual Studio Toolbox: Using LINQ to XML to Write XML
(Robert Green) Previously on Visual Studio Toolbox, Robert showed how to use LINQ to XML to query data from Web sites. In this episode, Robert shows how to use LINQ to XML to write XML.
OTBI vs. OBIA
(Dylan Wan) Several people are curious about what are OTBI and OBIA, and what are the differences between OTBI and OBIA. I will discuss these in this article.
Upgrading Grid Infrastructure and ASM from 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2 (and a bit about Oracle Restart)
(Mike Dean) My initial goal was simply to create a test ASM environment on my PC running Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 and Oracle Database 11.2.0.2. The first step was easy…download and install Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.1.
How to display a countdown timer
(Ged Mead) Going through some of my old posts this morning, I saw that this question seems to have been asked a lot. So I thought it was worth posting up an easy way of doing it.