(Paul Kimmel) Opposing market and technological forces are imposing a mild sort of schizophrenia on Visual Basic. Some want Visual Basic .NET to remain as much like VB6 as possible, so they can use forms without invoking the constructor and the new operator in VB.NET 2.0. At the same time, others wa
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Living the Least Privilege Lifestyle, Part 2: Why Running as a Non-Admin is Safer
(Don Kiely) In the first part of this “Living the ‘Least Privilege’ Lifestyle” series, I made the assertion that the fact that most people run with administrative rights on their local machines is the root cause of many or most of today’s security problems. I went on to explain the problems with run
Rapid application DB2
(Jonathan S Sayles) Learn how to use Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) — an IBM strategic fourth-generation language–to rapidly build enterprise-quality Web applications that access DB2 table data. We show the entire development process, from design through implementation, using a simple exampl
SQL Server 2000 may experience errors and stop responding, and error messages may be logged in the SQL Server 2000 error log, when you try to perform a write operation that is not logged
In Microsoft SQL Server 2000, you may experience the following symptoms when you try to perform a write operation that is not logged: 1. The write operation fails, and the following error message is logged in the SQL Server error log: SQL Server Assertion: File: , line=3723 Failed Asse
Making Stored Procedures Readable
(Andrew Novick) Stored procedures can grow to be quite lengthy. I’ve created procedures that are 500 to 1000 lines or more. There are a couple of reasons for this, including the limited coding structure provided by T-SQL. In particular, the limited error handling in SQL Server 2000 forces constan
Virtualize your data center with IBM DB2 Universal Database for Linux and Virtual Iron’s VFe — Flexibility and efficient resource utilization through hardware resource virtualization
Virtualization within the data center is a rapidly growing requirement for IT executives. Utilization levels need to be driven higher in order to reduce data center costs. Increasingly, IT organizations are moving away from implementing farms of standalone computers that perform dedicated functions
IBM Helps IRI Deliver On Demand Market Intelligence for Consumer Packaged Goods and Retail Companies
IBM announced that Information Resources Inc. (IRI), a global provider of enterprise market information solutions for consumer packaged goods (CPG), retail and healthcare companies, will use IBM software to support the development and delivery of the next generation IRI Business Performance Manageme
Siebel Denies Early Demise of CRM OnDemand
(John Pallatto) Siebel Systems Inc. officials denied market predictions that its hosted customer relationship management application service would have a short life span in the hands of its prospective new owners Oracle Corp.
Data Integrity in Web Services – Introduction
(David Talbot) Web Services bring with them great possibilities and with these possibilities are some pitfalls. One such pitfall is passing complex data types to and from Web Services without losing data integrity. The clearest thing to keep in mind when passing objects to Web Services is the data i
Precompilation in ASP.NET 2.0
(Johnson Smith) When the first request arrives at your web application there is a mind-numbing amount of work to do. The worker process starts, the runtime initializes, .aspx pages are parsed and compiled to intermediate language, methods are just-in-time compiled to native code–the list goes on an