(Craig S. Mullins) Although there are a lot of nice, new features in DB2 9 for z/OS, many will be happy that IBM has improved DB2’s ability to store and manage LOB data. As anyone who has tried to use LOBs in a previous version of DB2 knows, the usability limitations were troublesome. But with Versi
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Oracle Forensics Part 5: Finding Evidence of Data Theft in the Absence of Auditing
(David Litchfield) The forensic analysis of a compromised database server presents its own unique challenges. In other areas of computer forensics it’s often obvious that a crime has been committed: pornographic images are discovered on a hard drive; a rootkit has been installed; a system has been
The ‘You have to bind’ bar has been raised again in DB2 9
(Willie Favero) Since I first started posting to this blog, I have tried to give what I thought were excellent reasons to rebind your plans and packages. Well, here’s one more reason to consider rebinding everything at some point while you are still running DB2 Version 8. Once you get to DB2 9 for z
Real Web 2.0: Quick and dirty Web applications with bookmarklets
(Uche Ogbuji) Web 2.0 is well known for the fact that it’s not built on breathtaking new inventions, but rather on renewed emphasis on age-old Web technologies. One of those age-old technologies that is enjoying a revival in Web 2.0 is bookmarklets. A bookmarklet is essentially a Web application sho
The good and the bad about bind variables, revisited in 11g!
(Gregory Guillou) You all know the good and the bad about bind variables. You all know the drawbacks of “bind peeking”. To follow the Battle Against Any Guess, 11g will change the way you look at Oracle cursor sharing.
Debug SQL stored procedures with IBM Database Add-Ins for Visual Studio 2005, Part 2: Deploy, debug, and correct your SQL stored procedures
(Eric Johnson) Follow steps to deploy, debug, and correct SQL stored procedures using IBM Database Add-ins for Visual Studio 2005. (R)
Accessing and Updating Data in ASP.NET 2.0: Updating Basics
(Scott Mitchell) ASP.NET 2.0’s data source controls make it possible to retrieve, insert, update, and delete data without having to write the tedious dedata access code that was so commonplace in ASP.NET version 1.x. Previous installments of this article series have looked at returning, inserting, a
Using LINQ to XML (and how to build a custom RSS Feed Reader with it)
(Scott Guthrie) One of the big programming model improvements being made in .NET 3.5 is the work being done to make querying data a first class programming concept. We call this overall querying programming model “LINQ”, which stands for .NET Language Integrated Query.
Adding Smart Tags to Windows Forms Controls
(Wei-Meng Lee) A smart tag is a panel that displays next to a control and contains a list of commonly used properties. For example, in the Visual Studio (VS) editor, the Windows Forms DataGridView control uses a smart tag with the title “DataGridView Tasks” that displays a list of commonly used prop
Working with ADO.NET Datasets and .NET Objects using Crystal Reports and ASP.NET 2.0
(Jagadish Chaterjee) This is the third article in a series focusing on programming with Crystal Reports with ASP.NET 2.0. In this article, we will focus on working with Crystal Reports with data sources that include ADO.NET datasets and .NET objects.