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Oracle 10g Secure Backup, Part 1: Concepts
(Jim Czuprynski) Oracle 10g’s new Secure Backup features offer the capability to insure that all Recovery Manager (RMAN) backups are created and maintained in a secure fashion without the need for a potentially expensive and cumbersome media management layer (MML). This article – the first in this s
Implementing Parameters for Dynamic Reporting in Crystal Reports
(Neil FitzGerald) A common goal of report design is providing a single report that can service very specific reporting requirements and also accommodate a large audience of business users.
Creating, Copying, and Managing OC4J Instances
(Sam Alapati) In this second part of a multi-part series covering the management of OC4J and configuring J2EE applications with Oracle 10g Application Server, we focus in on OC4J instances.
Find the Knee of the Curve
(Linchi Shea) Whether you are load testing SQL Server or evaluating the I/O performance of a storage subsystem, you need to make sure that you cover the entire spectrum of the load levels–from light and moderate all the way to heavy and saturated–before you draw any conclusion. This is especially
Dynamic Identifiers: A Sneak Peek at .NET 3.5 for VB Programmers
(Paul Kimmel) We veteran VB programmers think we understand untyped, dynamic identifiers, but this technology really is new. Dynamic identifiers are not just weakly typed variants extended to C#. This technology is a solid, strongly typed, natural extension of .NET, and it’s better than what we have
Creating an XForms-based logo generator
(Nicholas Chase) Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) provides an easy way to declaratively create an image using XML, and XForms provides an easy way to edit XML. In this article you will put the two together to create an XForms-based XVG editor for creating SVG images such as logos.
Real-world Apache Derby, Part 4: Wrapping up: Tracking SOX compliance
(Dave Warner) So far, this series has covered the basics of storing and retrieving data in Apache Derby using SQL. This tutorial shows you how to use this knowledge in a straightforward way. In the previous tutorial, you developed a framework that allows you to store and manage Sarbanes-Oxley Act (S
SQL Server Error Handling Workbench
(Grant Fritchey) Error handling in SQL Server breaks down into two very distinct situations: you’re handling errors because you’re in SQL Server 2005 or you’re not handling errors because you’re in SQL Server 2000. What’s worse, not all errors in SQL Server, either version, can be handled. I’ll s
Subqueries: the new strategy for ‘NULL IN (SELECT …)’
(Sergey Petrunia) I hope this is my last post about this topic. It seems we’ve resolved all of the issues and I’ll now describe the user-visible consequences.