(Judith Myerson) The SOX Act was created to reduce the likelihood of prominent cases of financial fraud in publicly held companies. The 800-page gorilla, however, does not reduce the likelihood of executives facing hefty penalties for not complying. Its primary aim is to improve internal controls fo
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FIX: You receive a ‘Connection timed out or lost’ error message or a ‘COMException’ error message when you use ADOMD.NET to connect to a remote OLAP server in SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services
Consider the following scenario. You use ADOMD.NET in a Microsoft ASP.NET application to connect to Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services. You try to connect to a remote OLAP server. In this scenario, you may receive an error message that is similar to one of the following: Connection timed
Building a Simple Affiliate System in PHP/MySQL
(Roger Stringer) Setting up an affiliate system on your website can be very lucrative. While there are a lot of details involved, it need not be overly complicated. This article walks you through the steps of creating and setting up a basic affiliate system.
Global Information Framework and Knowledge Management, Part 1
(Paul Prueitt) In 2005 everyone knows what a horse and buggy is and what an automobile is. Most citizens knows the story of the emergence of the automobile manufacturing business sector and the American love affair with the automobile.
FIX: The number of active sessions in the Oracle database increases when you repeatedly use the .NET Framework Data Provider for Oracle in the .NET Framework 1.1
In the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1, when you repeatedly use the .NET Framework Data Provider for Oracle (System.Data.OracleClient) to connect to Oracle, you may notice that the number of active sessions in the Oracle database increases.
Improve Productivity With ASP.NET 2.0
(Peter Vogel) ASP.NET 2.0 includes everything from new controls to new subsystems, and it incorporates major structural changes that change the way that you’ll use ASP.NET. ASP.NET 2.0 features new subsystems that handle common problems (including identifying the user and managing user preferences),
Standardizing Grid Computing
(Rich Schwerin) The acceleration and adoption of new technologies can progress only so far without commonly accepted standards. The Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA) is a consortium of more than 30 leading vendors and customers working together to accelerate deployment of grids in enterprise data cente
Killing the Oracle DBMS_JOB
(James F. Koopmann) A while ago I published an article on Killing the Oracle DBMS_JOB. This was also a favorite of some of my readers and I still get questions on it today. So I thought I would post it here as it has surely been lost out in the web archives unless you search deep. Just remember the
IBM Announces Several Efforts In Cancer Fight
(K.C. Jones) IBM is working with researchers, cancer institutes and hospitals to fight cancer. The company is partnering with the National Cancer Institute on a grid project for managing biomedical research data. IBM announced Tuesday that it is also working with several hospitals and a research
Revisiting Heterogeneous Containers
(Danny Kalev) Five years ago, I explained how to simulate heterogeneous containers by storing raw pointers to polymorphic objects in an STL container. C++ has come along way since: tuples now allow you store arbitrary types in one object. Alternatively, you can replace the raw pointers with shared_p