(Sheeri Cabral) The listing of Dynamic System Variables on the MySQL Reference Manual’s page is supposed to show those variables you can change on-the-fly.
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DB2 Security and Compliance Solutions for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
(Whei-Jen Chen, Ivo Rytir, Paul Read and Rafat Odeh) In this book, we discuss the existing and new DB2 security features introduced in DB2 9.5 for Linux , UNIX, and Windows . These enriched DB2 security features provide you the capability to protect your data and comply with regulatory requirements.
Designing N-Tiered Data Access Layer Using Datasets – Part 1
(David Catherman) Microsoft has provided many rapid application development (RAD) tools with the Visual Studio 2005 (or 2008) environment. To handle your data access requirements, the typed dataset provides a great deal of functionality, but it has a deficiency that limits separation of layers into
Creating Custom Data Field Controls – Part 1
(Brian Mains) There are a few controls in the .NET Framework that support bulk amounts of data. All controls can contain some sort of data, but to show groups of data, to paginate or sort it, and perform some sort of analysis limits the number of control support to the GridView, DetailsView, DataLis
Provider Design Patterns in ASP.NET 2.0
(Abdul) Provider Design Pattern is a new pattern that Microsoft formalized in ASP.NET Whidbey. The pattern was officially named in the summer of 2002 when Microsoft was designing Whidbey’s new Personalization feature.
What’s New in Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Compact Framework 3.5
(Wei-Meng Lee) With the release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft has also updated the .NET Compact Framework. Unlike its desktop counterpart, there is no version 3.0 of the .NET Compact Framework. Instead, to align with the .NET Framework versioning on the desktop, the latest version of the .NET Com
SQL Server 2008 Spatial – How many ways to make your point?
(Simon Sabin) The spatial functionality is hugely standards based. There spatial standards are well established what this means is that there are many methods to support the standards. One of the areas that you will see this is the creation of spatial data.
Differences between Unique and Non-Unique Indexes (Part III)
(Richard Foote) A comment by Robert in Part II of this series reminded me of another subtle difference between Unique and Non-Unique Indexes. Now this difference is likely to be of minimal consequence to most applications as most applications don’t generally have problems with Primary Key (PK) or Un
SQL Server 2005 – Hacking password Encryption
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) Part 1 of this article series illustrated the ENCRYPTION by passphrase and DECRYPTION by passphrase mechanism. Part 2 of this article discusses how to hack/de-cipher the encrypted data encrypted by passphrase.
Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.3/2 – Recurring Sequence Numbers and Multi Line Column Display
(Venkatakrishnan J) Another 2 interesting questions came up in the forums today. I thought i would blog about them since these are pretty common questions that come up during actual implementations. Let’s look at both of them one by one.