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Web Service Security
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Bringing MySQL compatibility to PostgreSQL
(Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier) Despite having a strong feature set and excellent performance and stability, PostgreSQL lags significantly behind MySQL in one key area: Many more open source projects support MySQL than PostgreSQL. That limits PostgreSQL adoption to some extent because many users choose My
FIX: You receive an error message when you run SQL Server Setup to install SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 in binary-only mode on a failover cluster
You run SQL Server Setup to install Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4) in binary-only mode on a failover cluster. When you do this, the Setup program does not continue beyond the Services Accounts page. You receive the following error message: setup cannot verify/grant logon as servic
Remote procedures calls in Oracle
(James F. Koopmann) Often times we want to get information from a different Oracle instance than the one our current application is running on. Often times the information can only be gotten by having a procedure execute on the other instance. Getting the SYSDATE of anothere machine is just one situ
Managing the insider threat through code obfuscation
(Mark Fagerholm) Corporations spend billions building effective security protocols, but complacency and a desire for efficiency can soon lead to deviations from security protocols that workers gradually become accustomed to. The result is that small but potentially crippling holes develop in eve
Large Database Features In Oracle, conclusion
(Ian Abramson) When you are working with large databases with Oracle Database 10g, there are certain topics with which you need to be familiar. These topics are covered in this article, which is the second of two parts.
DB2 Universal Database and the .NET Developer? Absolutely! Part 2 – The Schema Creation Wizards
(Paul C. Zikopoulos) In Part 1 of this series, I covered the richness of the IBM Explorer and its unique features that help .NET application developers write applications that run against the IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) family on any platform. The DB2 UDB add-ins for Microsoft Visual Studio
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