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The Role of Roles in Securing Oracle Database XE
(W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla) A role is a named group of privileges, either system privileges or object privileges or a combination of the two, that helps to ease the administration of privileges.
Technical standards in education, Part 3: Open repositories for scholarly communication
(Stuart Lewis) Universities and research institutions use open repositories to enhance how they manage the outputs of their research activities, and make that research available to a worldwide audience. This article outlines the history and challenges of scholarly communication in today’s open envir
Oracle 11g Health Check Monitor
(Sam De Filippis) The Oracle Health Check Monitor (HM) facility is new with Oracle 11.1 database. It can run diagnostic checks that detect:
Database Corruption: Detecting Disk Sub-System Errors Early
(Scott Caldwell) The very thought of database corruption makes my skin crawl. Unfortunately, it’s something that all Database Administrators will eventually experience and need to correct. I’m not going to discuss how to recover from this lurking problem.
Australian Whole-of-Government Common Operating Environment Policy and OOXML
(Rick Jelliffe) Two big stories this week: AGIMO’s COE and LibreOffice.
XHTML Alternative to HTML5 Data Attributes
(John Doherty) I tend to write my own cross browser UI components and always strive to reduce the number of elements rendered in a page whilst also ensuring the mark-up validates.
10gR2 RAC service failover and ORA-12545
(Patrick Roozen) A few years ago I was lucky to be able to start working for a client that has Oracle RAC clusters. There we encountered lot’s of interesting issues, and one of them was that several client applications couldn’t seem to connect to the RAC cluster whenever a service was failed over to
Firing up AlwaysOn for high availability in SQL Server Denali
(Denny Cherry) The upcoming release of Microsoft SQL Server, code-named Denali, has an exciting new feature called High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR), also known as AlwaysOn.
A Note About IBM’s DB2 .NET Data Provider
(Robert Catterall) A lot of people like to use DB2 (on whatever platform — mainframe, Linux/UNIX/Windows, IBM i) as a data server for .NET applications running on Windows servers. IBM facilitates this architecture with the DB2 .NET Data Provider, which extends DB2 support for the ADO.NET interface.