(Alan Zeichick) The beta’s out! The technical beta of Microsoft Office “12” (where do they get those clever code names?) hit in mid-November. Unfortunately, many developers can’t have access to this very preliminary beta—Microsoft is only distributing it to a short list of customers and partners. (R
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Forms and URLs (Sample Chapter)
(Chris Shiflett) This chapter discusses form processing and the most common types of attacks that you need to be aware of when dealing with data from forms and URLs. You will learn about attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgeries (CSRF), as well as how to spoof form
Comparing real-time cardinality to the optimizer cardinality estimates
(Samir Kapoor, Sudharsan Selvarajah and Kaarel Truuvert) Evaluating real time cardinality in IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) versus the estimated cardinality in the access plan can help DBAs make various decisions to improve query performance. Here are all the details to create count queries to
.NET Stored Procedures: Autogenerating INSERT Statements for rows in Oracle Tables
(Jagadish Chaterjee) In this article, I shall introduce you to developing a .NET based CLR stored procedure, which can generate INSERT commands automatically for every row in a specified SELECT statement against an Oracle database.
Top Ten UI Development Breakthroughs In Windows Presentation Foundation
(Ian Griffiths and Chris Sells) The current Win32-based Windows UI graphics subsystem, found in Windows XP, has been around for nearly 20 years. It’s aging and limited, and as a result, user interface development has been somewhat, well, constrained at best.
The open source year in review
(Jack Loftus) Analysts and users alike saw victories for open source software (OSS) in 2005 in the areas of personal productivity applications, customer relationship management (CRM) and databases, where open source vendors such as MySQL gained some ground on proprietary stalwarts like Oracle Corp.
JSON and the Dynamic Script Tag: Easy, XML-less Web Services for JavaScript
(Jason Levitt) Making requests to third-party web services from an AJAX application is a pain, but new web services that offer the option of returning JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) instead of XML can provide significant relief. In fact, if you make web services requests using the dynamic script
Hidden treasures in 8.1.4
(Chris Eaton) In my last few postings I’ve mentioned some new features that were shipped in 8.1.4 and 8.1.7. Let’s take a look at another useful feature that may have eluded you from 8.1.4 (who reads the README anyway 🙂 ).
With The Right Business Intelligence Foundation, Decision Making is a Snap at Snap-tite
From fluid power components that take us into space, to fire hose products that save our forests and communities, manufacturing company Snap-tite, Inc. of Erie PA, is a snapshot of American ingenuity. No stranger to innovation, Snap-tite has adopted solutions from Jaros Technologies to unlock their
Capella University Monitors Growth with ProClarity and SQL Server 2005
(Jason Blumberg) Successful universities are ultimately driven by student enrollment rates. Moreover, the valuable information locked inside enrollment data holds the key to successful marketing tactics and improved revenue. Recognizing this, Capella University’s executive management team launched a