(Praveen K Prasad) During the development of the simplest “Hello World” application, we can see many bugs & other problems kicking us from back, this article shows how to get rid of the most common problems out here.
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How Bad Guys Hack Into Websites Using SQL Injection
(Matija) If you are not so confident with programming languages and web technologies you may be wondering what SQL stands for. Well, it’s an acronym for Structured Query Language (pronounced “sequel”). It’s “de facto” the standard language to access and manipulate data in databases.
SQL Server 2005 Integration Services – Transaction Support – Part 25
(Marcin Policht) The latest article in our series discusses improvements in the transactional support implemented in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services. The more granular scope of transactions, which now can be assigned to arbitrarily designated Control Flow tasks and containers, makes it is possi
Project Lockdown
(Arup Nanda) Imagine that you have just landed a new job as a DBA. On your first day, you hear rumors of an impending security audit driven by Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. You need to get to know your environment as soon as possible, so you know where to look and understand when to take immediate or
A little something about Fast Log Apply (FLA)
(Willie Favero) The inspiration for today’s entry is courtesy of the DB2-L listserver. While reading a few posts over the weekend, it came to me that Fast Log Apply (sometimes called FLA) doesn’t get enough decent exposure and deserve a little more airtime. At a minimum, it needs to be re-explained
Develop proof-of-concept .NET applications, Part 1: Create database objects in DB2 Viper using .NET
(Chenhong Xia) This tutorial series teaches you how to create proof-of-concept Windows and Web applications to access relational and XML data in IBM DB2 Viper, using Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2005. Part 1 explains the application specifications and illustrates how to create the relational database
Sybase DataWindow .NET 2.0—Easy, Powerful, and Flexible
(Frank Giannino) Sybase recently released DataWindow .NET 2.0, a powerful object used to build data-driven .NET applications. The DataWindow offers nearly identical capabilities for both Windows Forms and Web (ASP.NET) Forms, and it’s versatile and easy to use, suitable for reporting, graphs, tree v
FIX: You may not be able to use Analysis Manager to change server properties for an instance of SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services that is running on an IA-64 server computer
Consider the following scenario. You run 32-bit client applications for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services on a client computer that is running Microsoft Windows Server 2003. You install Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) on the client computer. In this scenario, you may not
How to Use NDoc to Generate XML Documentation in .NET
Documentation of your system is one of the important tasks that have to be done for any software system or product. Without that it is not easy to track the code and the features that are incorporated in the system.
Creating a Node Tree Fragment in XSLT Using Internet Explorer
(Mike DiRenzo) This article describes a means of using C# to create a node-tree-fragment in XSLT.