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Database Security and Oracle Patches – Part 4
(Steve Callan) At the end of Part 3, a patch for an Oracle 10.2.0.1 database was obtained from MetaLink and cached in a cache repository. During the installation, the patch was not applied (although it could have been at that time). In this part of the series, Oracle’s OPatch utility will be used to
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SQL Server Indexes
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Google Maps! Ajax-Style Web Development Using ASP.NET
(Vishwas Lele) I have three goals in this article. First, I want to provide a high-level overview of AJAX-style applications. My second goal is to provide a detailed description of asynchronous callback features of ASP.NET 2.0. Finally, I want to provide an insight into upcoming enhancements of tool
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(Alejandro Gervasio) In this second part of the series, you will learn the basics of object-oriented web page generation through the use of (X)HTML widgets. You will also see how objects implement the “HTMLRenderer” interface to explicitly define its functionality by using the “toHTML()” method.
Oracle 10g Automatic Storage Management (ASM), Part 2: Sample Implementation
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