(Ben Nadel) Last year in the comments of my blog post on cleaning high ascii values out of text, Eric Stevens suggested that one might use the XML ENTITY tag in an XML document to define named data variables.
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Understanding Security Framework Model in ASP.NET 3.5
(Vishal Nayan) Why security is important: Security is an important part of any web application development which is necessary to protect assets from unauthorized actions. This encapsulates verifying users, granting or denying access to sensitive information, or protecting data stored on the server.
Converting UTC to local time with SQL Server CLR
(Diana Moldovan) Suppose that your company uses an international ERP application which stores the date and time data as UTC, not as local time. Usually the conversion to the local time is handled at the application level.
How to remove unwanted SOAP header elements in JAX-WS
(Frank Houweling) In our current webservice project with JAX-WS in JDeveloper 11.1.1.3 we have a challenge with calling a webservice. This webservice from a remote organisation does not accept specific SOAP header elements our client application creates – although we followed the contract of the W
Avoiding the Fire-Breathing Dragon
(Rebecca Bond) In my spare time, I write children’s stories. Obviously Dragons enter those storylines from time to time. I always tell my readers that Dragons should be approached cautiously, even the purple ones, cause you can’t tell which ones are the Fire-Breathing kind until you are being toaste
Large Page Support or Not – ORA_LPENABLE, Granule Size
(Charles Hooper) Have you ever tried to bounce a database (maybe to adjust a parameter such as PROCESSES, which can only be altered in the spfile/init.ora) and encountered something like this (note that this is on a 64 bit Windows server):
MS SQL Server 2008 Data and Log Files
(wubayou) You can manage your MS SQL Server 2008 database’s growth by either adding data or log files or deleting them. This tutorial will show you the necessary steps to complete both processes.
Beyond the LIKE Operator: Advanced Pattern Matching with MySQL
(Robert Gravelle) Don’t get me wrong; the LIKE operator is great for finding words or phrases within strings. I’ve used it for those times that you need to match complex string patterns in MySQL. But you’ll be happy to learn that it provides a form of advanced pattern matching that is based on exten
Dynamic Properties for PropertyGrid
(Mizan Rahman) In this article, I will discuss and show how to get dynamic behavior out of the PropertyGrid control. I would emphasize the word “dynamic” here, and also “dynamic” here means the ability to do things at run-time. Some of the stuff here can also be done using code if you have enough kn
Where Do We Put Business Rules?
Where Do We Put Business Rules? I received a number of replies regarding this question. Frankly, I’m surprised with the consistency of the responses. The overwhelming response to this point has been, “Put your business logic in the database.” Primarily, the recommendations are to put the logic into Referential Integrity, metadata enforced by stored procedures, or logic in the stored […]