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The Definitive Guide to ASP.NET Security
(Don Kiely) I don’t know how I missed this for so long, but last week a new ASP.NET security book came to my attention. I’m happy to announce that the book, released late last year, finally fills the void for a definitive guide to writing secure ASP.NET 2.0 applications. The book is Developing More-
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(Tom Joyce) Getting consistently high performance out of enterprise-class business applications and infrastructure and delivering it on a consistent basis is extremely difficult. A recent InfoPro survey found that 80 percent of enterprise customers experience an “application brownout” – a disruption
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(Paolo Bruni, Lucy Krantz, Frank Nikodem, Guenter Pfann and Marc White) A database administrator (DBA) has a challenging job trying to maintain databases in today’s nonstop 24×7 environments. This challenge is compounded by the complexity of database structures and the time pressure of trying to be