(Howard Goldberg) The amount of structured and unstructured data companies must manage continues to grow exponentially, and with it, the DBA workload and importance increases. Application requirements, market competition, and the effects of government regulations are increasing both the volume and t
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Following the Changes, Part Two
(Mark A. Williams) You can access data from Oracle databases in .NET applications in different ways, but for features and performance, Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) is your best choice.
Looping for Performance – A Tuning Methodology
(Greg Scriba) In the computer performance arena we often think of “Looping” in a negative sense. But is all looping really bad? The loop control structure is actually one of the most often used control structures in programming today. This paper suggests using the loop structure in our daily perf
SAP database endorsement at Sapphire bolsters feud with Oracle
(Robert Westervelt) SAP is endorsing IBM’s DB2 database management system for midmarket applications in a move that analysts say could stave off future deployments of SAP on Oracle’s 10g. (R)
A Brief Pep talk: Oracle Romancing the Linux
(Tarry Singh) In part 11 of RACing Ahead with Oracle on VMware, we covered OCFS2 and its installation. The last couple of weeks, we have seen how Oracle has been contemplating the move to host its applications on its own Linux distribution. Oracle develops (or should I say the geeks at Oracle develo
Weaving WebSphere: AIRPort Now Arriving
(Joe Pluta) You know me, always trying to find quotes that really fit. Well, this song is appropriate to this article for a number of reasons. First, it’s both old and new. The original was recorded in 1967, and it’s been re-recorded dozens of times over the years. Each time, it gets a little someth
Working with Windows Messages in .NET
(John Mueller) You might not be familiar with messages, but they’re extremely important, especially when you need to perform tasks outside of the range of tasks that Microsoft programmed into the .NET Framework. All communication in Windows relies on messages.
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(Adrian Holovaty) I like structured data. My favorite projects tend to be those that deal with, and exploit, structured information: events, restaurants, crime, and political information.
Security in Microsoft .Net Framework: Part I
(Dinesh Tawar) CAS stands for Code Access security. CAS is a process that controls the access that code has to protected resources and operations. CAS allows code to be trusted to varying degrees, depending on where the code originates and on other aspects of the code’s identity. CAS also enforces t
User Tips: Receiving an Email When Database Data is Changed
(Wade Wilbur) For low-volume databases, those that are predominantly read and not written to, or database tables that are designed to not be updated or only updated under rare circumstances, a DBA or developer may be interested in being notified whenever the data in a particular table is modified. O