(Dinesh Asanka) Security has become extremely important in today’s fiercely completive business environment. Industry standards require you to implement firm techniques to secure your data. In SQL Server 2005, security has improved for authentication, authorization, and encryption. Encryption is so
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(Steve Muench) In previous columns, I’ve discussed how you can use Oracle JDeveloper to create data-bound Web pages for an application’s view layer by dragging and dropping components in a visual editor. In a future column, I’ll investigate similar capabilities that Oracle JDeveloper provides for bu
Oracle January 2007 CPU Initial Thoughts
Oracle has released the January 2007 Critical Patch Update (CPU). A major change for this quarter’s CPU was the release of a pre-announcement on January 11th giving an overview of the products patches and a summary of the vulnerabilities. On the surface, the pre-announcement looked pretty bad with
Perspectives on grid: An overview of WebSphere Extended Deployment
(Matt Haynos) There are many technologies that comprise grid computing. Organizations often struggle to integrate and deploy the various technologies. IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment, however, is an example of an integrated grid platform for virtualizing and managing Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Ed
An emerging XML Web services security infrastructure
(Ed Tittel) Anybody who’s been following application development trends for any time knows that Web Services is fast becoming the veritable “hot seat” of the development world. It’s where the action (and the money) is, and has become a line of business if not an outright obsession for everybody from
MySQL – No Index Used With ORDER BY + LIMIT and DISTINCT
(Alex Gorbachev) This is actually a follow up on my previous post. Developers tried to rewrite all statements and even overdid it. As we say in Russia – “teach fool how to pray and he will break his forehead”.
Automate the process of trimming table data in SQL Server 2005
(Arthur Fuller) A friend and colleague recently faced an interesting problem. Each month he receives a huge amount of data from a client, which he then must massage before it’s usable. The tables contain millions of rows, and the structure of the tables may vary from month to month. To make matters
ASP: Really this easy? Yes! (Part 2)
(Alex Homer and Dave Sussman) Just as you are leaning back and admiring your handiwork, the phone rings again. This time, it is the senior developer at AdventureWorks Trading Inc.––and he is not a happy fellow. His team has spent months building an object-oriented business and data access layer, and
Reminiscing with the DB2 catalog and directory
(Willie Favero) Do you know what the most important group of page sets are in all of DB2? More important than you most critical production table space? Yup, you guessed it; DB2’s catalog and directory.
VB.NET-XML based Dynamic Menu Component using Recursion Technique
(Sundar Kasthuri) In this article, we will see how to generate Dynamic Menus (using recursion) in VB.net based on the XML data which has the complete details about the Menu like Menu Caption and the corresponding Event it has to trigger whenever the user clicks a Menu Item etc., It’s a generalized r