Thirteen new webcasts are scheduled for May, covering such topics as VB9 – LINQ to SQL & O/R Designer Deep Dive, Authorization, Privilege, and Access Control in SQL Server 2005 and more.
Other News
IBM to Resell MySQL to Sell More DB2
(Vincent McBurney) Okay, so that title doesn’t make sense. Let me try again. IBM will resell Open Source MySQL Enterprise Database in competition with its own DB2 in order to increase the market presence of DB2.
Exploring Secrets of BindingSource Filters
(Michael Sorens) Visual Studio gives developers the extraordinary capability to build a database application with a working graphical user interface using just a few mouse clicks. The canonical form of this with VS2005 uses the DataGridView control. Populating the DataGridView requires a round-trip
Oracle 10g database locking when users log out of ADP software
(Maria Anderson) Are there any known issues with the Oracle 10g database locking when users log out of ADP software and not allowing them to log back in until a script is run to unlock the database? If so, is there a fix? (R)
MySQL Memory Usage Profile Script
(Tim Procter) There are various tools available for gathering and monitoring mysql performance data, but it’s not always clear what they mean, what is important, and what can be tuned. I’m not going to try to post a comprehensive mysql tuning manual here. This post is about taking a snapshot profile
Should you have your swap file enabled while running MySQL?
(Peter Zaitsev) So you’re running dedicated MySQL Linux box with plenty of memory, so the good question arises if you should have swap file enabled or disable it ? I’ve seen production successfully running on boxes both with and without swap file so it is not the question of you must do it this or t
Hello World: Learn how to create a Java Web application without knowing the Java language using Rational Business Developer Extension
(Tim McMackin) Learn how to build a simple dynamic Web site using Rational Business Developer Extension and Enterprise Generation Language (EGL). The site you build has two pages: one to display a list of records in a database and another to allow users to change the data in one of those records. Yo
DB2 Upgrade Exam – Now Available
(Susan Visser) If you are one of the many people who has earned an IBM Certified Database Administrator – DB2 UDB V8.1 for Linux, UNIX and Windows Certification… you’ll be happy to know that the upgrade exam is now available for you to take. You’ll only need to answer 38 questions and the price is
Ajax security holes and how to fill them
(George Lawton) Every data theft, security breach and Web site vulnerability that grabs headlines further emphasizes the need to secure Web applications. As developers begin to move to Ajax and ASP.NET AJAX programming, security takes on a new level of importance. (R)
Better Entities with Nullable Types
(Paul Kimmel) There is an impedance mismatch between objects and normalized relational databases. Everyone knows this. Almost everyone has tried to fix it—think object-oriented databases—and some people have gotten famous off of proposed solutions. (Deservedly so or not.) Well, truth be told Microso