(Buck Woody) Recently several IT industry information outlets have reported that there has been a 10-year concentrated, organized effort on breaking through computer security at some of the largest companies in the world. Government sites have also been attacked in multiple countries.
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The Web is 20 years old: What next?
(Leslie D’Monte) Twenty years ago, a British computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, posted a short summary of a project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup, and also designed a crude website (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html), with a few hyperlinks and some text to describe a project he ch
It’s time to start planning for IBM’s Information on Demand (IOD) Conference
(Susan Visser) Today I registered for the IOD conference, requested a hotel room and certified that I’ll be presenting this year. Now it is time to start using the SmartSite to schedule my time. The conference takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Hotel during the last week of Octob
XML Schema development approaches
(Rick Jelliffe) The way that people approach developing schemas has evolved over the years: each new approach grows out of problems with the status quo (see Hegelian dialectic) but enriches rather than supplants.
Database Performance Tuning Is Only Getting More Important
(Dave Beulke) Hardware continues to get faster, cheaper, and with more capacity. Now UNIX and even Windows systems are trying to handle billions of rows or terabytes of data.
DBMS_SCHEDULER jobs stuck after upgrade to 11.2? Check this parameter!
(roy.swonger) I think I learn something new practically every time that I talk to or work with customers. Here’s a nugget of information that may be worth its weight in gold if you are upgrading in a RAC environment.
Are you getting the most out of your Exadata performance? Part 1
(Tanel Poder) In almost all of the Exadata migration projects I’ve been part of, the client sees immediate speedup & performance increase when testing their workload on Exadata (of course, we’ve made sure that we do plan & execute the tasks right).
Multi-Column Joins, Expressions and 11g
(Randolf Geist) I’ve already outlined in one of my previous posts that getting a reasonable cardinality estimate for multi-column joins can be tricky, in particular when dealing with correlated column values in the join columns.
Semantic Web Technologies Will Move Into The Enterprise, One Domain At a Time
(Jennifer Zaino) Semantic technology may find a home in corporate America for tackling its big data problems, subject domain by subject domain. MIIAtech is betting that those first verticals will be customer relationship management and human resources domains.
HTTP Request Lifecycle Events in IIS Pipeline that every ASP.NET Developer Should Know
(Suprotim Agarwal) The life cycle of an ASP.NET application starts with a request sent by a browser to the Web server like IIS. If you are an ASP.NET developer who creates modules and handlers, it’s important to understand the the HTTP Request Lifecycle in IIS. This article will give you an overview