(orinoco77) This is a short article on how to perform URLDecoding in T-SQL. It’s something I recently had to do and I struggled to find an adequate solution in the public domain, so I decided to write my own. The way it is done is somewhat unusual in that the hexadecimal numbers that denote encoded
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Use Ajax with PHP and DB2 9 – Xajax
(Deepak Vohra) PHP is a scripting language commonly used in developing Web applications. Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) is a Web technique that combines JavaScript, Document Object Model (DOM), and XMLHttpRequest technologies to provide dynamic interactions between a client and a server. Var
CHECKDB (Part 7): How long will CHECKDB take to run?
(Paul Randal) This is a question I see every so often and it cropped up again this morning so I’ll use it as the subject for this week’s blog post.
How To Compare Two Files using HMACSHA1 with VB.NET or VB2005
(Mike McIntyre) This article is similar to the article How To Compare Two Files with VB.NET and VB2005.
XForms tip: Enabling cross-domain loading and sending in Firefox
(Tyler Anderson) XForms with Firefox has a built-in security feature that inhibits users from “cross-domain” loading and sending of instance data. Just like pop-ups, you don’t want this to happen by default unless you trust the Web site. You shouldn’t have to worry about it since this security featu
Show 52: Best practices from the user point of view, best data practices, 60 second tip and more.
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Microsoft’s Lineup of SQL Server Related Webcasts for February 2007
Seven new webcasts are scheduled for February, covering such topics as Migrating Oracle Databases to SQL Server 2005, Managing Team Data with Visual Studio Team Edition and more.
New Conference Riveted on RPG and DB2 Education
(Dan Burger) Not everyone believes that continuing education and training is necessary or that it provides a return on investment to businesses that emphasize it with their IT staff. That’s an unfortunate reality in today’s workplace that is more prominent today than it was 10 or 20 years ago. At th
DS4000 Best Practices and Performance Tuning Guide
(Bertrand Dufrasne, Bruce Allworth, Agung Indrayana, Christian Schoessler and Brian Youngs) This IBM Redbook represents a compilation of best practices for deploying and configuring DS4000 Storage Servers. Setting up a DS4000 Storage Server can be a complex task. There is no single configuration tha
11i: Transparent Data Encryption Certified with Oracle Applications
Oracle has certified Oracle 10g (10.2.0.2) Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Oracle Applications 11i — TDE is part of the Oracle Advanced Security Option (ASO), which is a database option and is an additional cost.