(Philip Alexander) Are you prepared for the unthinkable? I’m talking about a security breach involving customer information. Many federal and state data-privacy laws now demand embarrassing and potentially business-damaging public disclosures when a breach occurs, but all such laws make exceptions i
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Database-Based Authentication for PHP Apps, Part 1
(Michael McLaughlin) Managing secure access to Web pages and applications is a common problem. You want to enable those you trust to access data while preventing unauthorized ones from gaining access to it. In most cases, database-based authentication is the solution.
Installing PHP5, MySQL 5 and Perl
(cwroblew) What do you do when the Perl CPAN module DBD::MySQL won’t install with a password for root and the Windows MySQL client program I use couldn’t remove the password for root? In the table the password was blank, but when I logged in on the command line, it required the root password I used
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Parsing XML With The DOM Library
(Tim Koschuetzki) The PHP 4 DOMXML extension has undergone some serious transformation since PHP5 and is a lot easier to use. Unlike SimpleXML, DOM can, at times, be cumbersome and unwiedly. However, it is often a better choice than SimpleXML. Please join me and find out why.
Reordered Row Format [DB2 9 for z/OS]
(Craig Mullins) If you’ve worked with DB2 for awhile, especially as a DBA, you’ve probably heard the advice to re-arrange the columns of your tables to optimize logging efficiency. Basically, the more data that DB2 has to log, the more overhead your programs will incur, and performance will degrade.
City of Angels Selects IBM DB2 9 Viper
IBM announced that the City of Los Angeles has selected the DB2 9 Viper data server to replace its existing database management system.
Tip: Always use an XML declaration
(Uche Ogbuji) The XML declaration is optional in XML files, and defaults determine most of the information in the file. However, problems are common when these defaults do not match reality — for example, the document could use an encoding other than one of the defaults. It’s always safer to make t
SQL Server 2008 Web Casts
(Euan Garden) There are web casts on the key new features in SQL Server 2008 coming, here the schedule is below and there is also an upcoming chat.
Have you reorganized your DB2 catalog lately?
(Willie Favero) If your answer is no, then I have to ask why not? How often do you reorganize your production table spaces? I’m guessing fairly often. So, what can be more “production” than your DB2 catalog? Sure, you don’t have to REORG your catalog as frequently as you might reorganize your user t