Allowing a user to enter information into a form is one of the most common features of a Web site or an application. However, best practices require that the information given in those circumstances be validated before it is accepted into a database or is used in a calculation. If your scripting
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(Roger Sanders) In DB2 UDB for Linux, Unix, and Windows v.8, how do you calculate table size for a DMS tablespace (assuming the table has all data types)?
Convert VBA Code to Visual Basic .NET
(Dale Oberg) Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is the environment and language for Microsoft Office applications that has been available for several years. Microsoft Office 2003 Editions include a new environment for building applications called Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office (
Working with LOBs in Oracle and PHP
(Harry Fuecks) Working with Oracle types like VARCHAR2 is fine, but what if you need to be able to store more than its 4,000-byte limit in one go? For this task, you need one of Oracle’s Long Object (LOB) types, which in turn requires that you learn how to use the PHP API for working with LOBs. That
Design and Deploy Secure Web Apps with ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 6.0
(Michael Volodarsky) Web applications are among the most common computing services that are exposed to the Internet, and thus they pose an inviting target to anyone who wants to break into your network to steal sensitive information, tamper with your data, or otherwise compromise your system. En
Exploit circulating for newly patched Oracle bug
(Robert McMillan) Database administrators now have an added incentive to install Oracle Corp.’s latest security patches, which were released earlier this week. Malicious software is circulating that can crash an unpatched database server, and one security expert predicted that more malware targeting
PostgreSQL bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch
(Juan Pablo Claude) Last month I spent an intense five days learning the ins and outs of the PostgreSQL database management system at the Big Nerd Ranch, a teaching and consulting company based in Atlanta which specializes in Mac OS X and Unix. The “Big Nerd Ranch Way” removes you from your norm
National Football League and IBM Implement Digital on Demand Technology
IBM announced that it has designed and implemented an IT standard based digital media solution for the National Football League and NFL Films that catalogs game footage generated by the NFL and allows the League to bring its vast body of game content to hosts and producers faster, easier and at lowe
XML transformations in .NET – Part I – Introduction
(JLogic) The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how XML data can be transformed using the .NET XSLT Transformer object. XML transformation is the process of converting raw xml data into a presentation format such as HTML. Let’s have a look at a sample xml.
Review of AdventNet SwisSQL Sybase to SQL Server Migration Tool 2.1
(Narayana Vyas Kondreddi) In a previous review, I looked at SwisSQL SQLOne Console from AdventNet, that converts SQL statements from one SQL dialect to another. That’s a generic SQL Converter and supports conversion to and from Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, Oracle, IBM DB2, Informix, MySQL, PostgreS