(Ingrid Marson) Alan Cox is so well thought of in the open-source community that he can pull together a crowd of eager techies to discuss theoretical software stability on a Sunday afternoon — as he did at last year’s FOSDEM conference in Brussels.
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An Assessment of the Oracle Password Hashing Algorithm
(Joshua Wright and Carlos Cid) In this paper the authors examine the mechanism used in Oracle databases for protecting users’ passwords. We review the algorithm used for generating password hashes, and show that the current mechanism presents a number of weaknesses, making it straightforward for an
Advanced Performance Management with the Enterprise Workload Manager
(Connie Cradick) Performance management is becoming more and more important in IT environments. Did you ever wonder why your Web transactions are not completing fast enough? What if I told you that you can identify how much time each middleware application uses when it processes the transaction?
Retrieving SQL Server 2005 Database Info Using SMO: Basics
(Jagadish Chaterjee) This article focuses on retrieving SQL Server 2005 information using SMO together with Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Studio 2005.
AJAX Repeater control
(Jigar Desai) XMLHttp and AJAX can really make your application do tricks which were not possible with plain vanilla HTML, but your code can become messy very quickly if you do not plan your approach properly. I still remember the days when I was writing spaghetti code with classic asp to render tab
Create Elegant Code With Anonymous Methods, Iterators, And Partial Classes
(Juval Lowy) Fans of the C# language will find much to like in Visual C# 2005. Visual Studio 2005 brings a wealth of exciting new features to C#, such as generics, iterators, partial classes, and anonymous methods. While generics is the most talked-about feature, especially among C++ developers who
Foreign Keys and Referential Integrity
(Ian Barwick) Foreign keys are an essential part of any relational database. In MySQL’s foreign key support has been added on through the InnoDB extension and is continually being improved. However some aspects of the foreign key implementation, especially in combination with other areas of function
Administering and Managing Users
This tutorial explains the ways and steps of creating and managing database accounts, Creating Users through Sql Plus, Creating User through iSQL*PLUS, Creating Users through EM, Manager Users, Managing Users through sqlplus and Managing Users through EM.
Advanced Authentication in IBM WebSphere Application Server
(Keys Botzum, Bill Hines, Paul Ilechko and Messaoud Benantar) The advanced authentication features in IBM WebSphere Application Server V6 support a more flexible authentication model with a new highly customizable authentication framework that’s based on – and extends – Java Authentication and Autho
‘LAMP’ start-up warms to free DB2
(Martin LaMonica) Start-up ActiveGrid has released an update to its toolset for building business applications with open-source software, adding support for IBM’s newly introduced free DB2 database.