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Special XML attacks
(Balaji Ramachandran) XML messages have a few intrinsic weakness, that Web Service creators should know about. None of these problems are unique to SOAP; anyone processing incoming XML needs to know and resist these.
Paste XML as XLinq XElement Visual Studio AddIn
(Scott Hanselman) In the May 2006 CTP of Visual Studio there was a great “Paste XML as XElement” feature that didn’t make it into the product. However, seems features can be included as Samples.
A Practical Demonstration of SaaS using Oracle Application Express
(Steve Bobrowski) Whether you believe in creation, intelligent design, or Darwinism, evolution is an undeniable process that spans most everything around us. In nature, species evolve to survive in an ever-changing environment. And in business, well-managed companies evolve their business operations
DB2 Tools: An Introduction to the Bare Bones of using DB2 Effectively
(Anil Mahadev) In this series of articles, we shall be discussing the various tools available in DB2 for effectively performing tasks pertaining to a number of situations.
Fast incremental updates of XML records
(Uche Ogbuji) XML is often used today as a data export and exchange format. In such cases, you might deal with a feed of XML records; sometimes, if this feed, is too long, there are performance problems importing it into another system. As such, you might want to produce only an incremental feed—tha
It’s those small, unnoticed enhancements that can sometimes make a huge difference
(Willie Favero) Sometimes an enhancement only gets a short paragraph in a Redbook or bars in the margin of a manual. On occasion, you don’t even know that you are using the enhancement. It just does what it’s supposed to do and you reap all of the unseen benefits. Today’s post will focus on one such
Materialized Views – Summary Management with Oracle
(H.Tonguç Yýlmaz) In this blog’s Oracle Business Intelligence category I made introduction before to both Parallel Execution and Partitioning two epical and maybe most used two options of Oracle on BIS environments.
A quick introduction to the jQuery tablesorter plugin
(Jeroen van Wilgenburg) A few days ago version 2.0 of the tablesorter plugin was released. Before 2.0 the tablesorter worked fine but I never did anything with it. Today I thought it was time to see whether this was a good solution for the table sorting we need. In this article I will show you how t
Log stored procedures messages for DB2 on Linux or Unix
(Vikram S. Khatri) This article presents a logging framework that you can use with IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows stored procedures to log informational, error, and debug messages directly from the procedure itself. The logging framework methods use shared memory concepts to coordinate and cha