(Chad Cook) Authentication is the act of establishing identity via the presentation of information that allows the verifier to know the presenter is who or what it claims. This identity could be any number of things, including: –People –Systems –Applications –Messages
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Distribute search results as RSS feeds using WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition
(Srinivas Varma Chitiveli) RSS feeds are based on a standardized XML format that represents syndication of information. Using the RSS format, you can create a data feed that supplies headlines, links, and article summaries from your Web sites. Other sites can incorporate your information into their
Wrapper Class for Parsing Fixed-Width, Multiple Section Files
(kennster) I recently had a requirement to develop an import parser for a series of mainframe reports, all of which 133 bytes wide, with a multi-line header on each page, followed by n number of detail rows, and a summary section of possibly more than one line, essentially, the raw ASCII data sent t
Advanced MySQL Replication Techniques
(Giuseppe Maxia) You may know about the MySQL Cluster, which is a complex architecture to achieve high availability and performance. One of the advantages of MySQL Cluster is that each node is a peer to the others, whereas in a normal replicating system you have a master and many slaves, and applica
Error messages are logged in the SQL Server error log when you use SQL Server 2000 on a computer that is running Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4 or Windows Server 2003
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Changes in Default AutoPatch Prerequisite Checking Behavior
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Introducing Oracle (Sample Chapter)
(Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak and Jonathan Stern) Where do we start? One of the problems in comprehending a massive product such as the Oracle database is the difficulty of getting a good sense of how the product works without getting lost in the details of implementing specific solutions. This
Creating a Stored Procedure or Function in an Oracle Database
A stored procedure or function can be created with no parameters, IN parameters, OUT parameters, or IN/OUT parameters. There can be many parameters per stored procedure or function.