(Falko Timme) In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure MyDNS, a DNS server that uses a MySQL database as backend instead of configuration files like, for example, Bind or djbdns. This has the advantage that you can easily use web-based frontends to administrate your DNS records.
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Introducing ASP.NET 2.0 with Visual Studio 2005
(Jagadish Chaterjee) This article introduces you to designing and working with an SQL Server 2005 database using the Visual Studio 2005 Integrated Development Environment. You will also learn how to work with the “Grid View” control.
Single Click Diagnostic Collection
(Chris Eaton) There is more to saying DB2 is optimized for SAP than just having the best performance. Of course if you want the best performing database for SAP, the benchmark results available here show that DB2 tops the list. But it takes a lot more than good performance to have a successful syste
Building a PHP5 Form Processor: Coding the Form Validator Module
(Alejandro Gervasio) In this second part of a three-part series, we take up the topic of server-side validation. By the time you finish this article, you’ll have the general guidelines for how to build a form validating class. You’ll use some PHP built-in introspection functions, along with regular
Best practices and performance considerations using RedBack Objects
(Ray Else) Learn the best practices of RedBack Object planning, creation, and use for an effective Web site. Poorly planned use of RedBack Objects could mean a slow-performing Web site (and an unnecessary load on your database server), whereas the well-planned use of RedBack Objects can mean a fast,
Introducing XML or Non-XML Based Creative Modeler In Microsoft .NET
(Patrick Gannon) The data translation engine built into Creative Modeler supports converting data from source (non-XML) formats into XML formats, and back again. It also supports converting XML formats into other XML formats via XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations). To convert non-X
CodeSnip: GnuPG Encryption for Email, XML, and Others in a VB.NET Wrapper
(Terry Voss) For email there is only one security standard that is highly used–PGP or the public domain version GnuPG. I recently had to apply GnuPG to a commercial email program and found that nowhere on the Internet was this asymmetric encryption available for .NET usage. It was quite a challenge
Interview with Kai ‘Oswald’ Seidler from the XAMPP project
(Lenz Grimmer) I recently had the pleasure to get in touch with Kai “Oswald” Seidler from the Apache Friends team. He is one of the people behind “XAMPP”, an easy to install software distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl which is available for Linux and Windows. The project also added support
XML To The Max: Get More Power Out Of Your SQL Server
(Ward Pond) In this article, I will present a brief overview of how you can now manipulate XML in SQL Server 2000. The focus of the article is intra-system communication between a SQL Server 2000 T-SQL stored procedure and a Web service or user interface component.
SQL Server 2005 DB Snapshot: Imperfect Yet Useful?
(Ravindra Okade) Database Snapshot (DB Snapshot for short) is a new tool offered by SQL Server 2005. Database snapshots can be used to protect against user errors, by creating a “snapshot” of your data that you can refer to later if you need to recover data or database objects that were accidentally