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In this article, we will be presenting a systematic methodology and best practices for managing a highly secure Oracle E-Business Suite environment. The attendees will come out understanding how to secure all aspects of the E-Business Suite technology stack. We will present how to secure the data c
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(Alex Homer) I don’t work on a Sunday. My boss doesn’t work on a Sunday. Therefore, I don’t see why my business objects should work on a Sunday either. Of course, there will always be someone trying to access my application on a Sunday, but it’s easy to make use of the Policy Injection Application B
FIX: An access violation may occur in SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services when you try to use a 2007 Office system program to open an offline local cube
When you try to open a local offline Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services cube by using a 2007 Microsoft Office system program, an access violation may occur.
Pre-fetch binlogs to speed up MySQL replication
(Frank Mashraqi) Last year at the MySQL camp, I heard about Paul Tuckfield’s script that pre-fetches relay logs to speed up replication. Since then I got really interested in implementing it but never got the time. This year at MySQL conference Paul’s script got a lot of attention again. Since it ha
Server-Based AJAX for Enterprise Applications
(Guy Peled) AJAX has been breaking new ground almost every day. With over 150 AJAX frameworks, there are plenty of options to choose from and, one might say, there are too many. Most of the AJAX frameworks provide you with browser extension libraries that will help you utilize the browser and intera
Oracle picks up product lifecycle management vendor
(Mark Brunelli) Oracle has announced plans to acquire Agile Software Corp., a maker of product lifecycle management (PLM) software, in an all cash deal worth $495 million. (R)
‘Take Back Control of Your Mainframe Information Assets’ seminar coming to a city near you
(Willie Favero) Are you a data person? Is your company becoming more and more interested in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)? Would you like to know more about how SOA ties into your data and your mainframe? What about the value of your data’s quality?
Null Object Refactoring
(Brian Mains) Martin Fowler wrote a book called “Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code,” and in the book he discusses the “Introduce Null Object” refactoring. Instead of assigning a null value to a reference-type property, a nullable object can be used to represent a null value, instead
The ballad of the tuple relation
(Phil Factor) I was peacefully pottering away at my workstation, contentedly spawning a daughter thread or something similar, when Robyn popped in. She’d been wrestling with the Grouping Workbench and trying to come up with a copper-bottomed explanation for what the GROUP BY statement does. I’d been