(Susan Cline) ODBC is available for the Cloudscape 10.x and Derby databases as an IBM DB2 Run-Time Client. The use of Derby, Version 10.1 and 10.0, with ODBC is a supported platform for Windows and available as a beta for Linux. This article discusses platforms, system requirements, and where to dow
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Serialization: the What and the Why
(Peter Aitken) You hear and see the word serialization a lot in documentation and discussions about .Net. I have found, however, that quite a few programmers do not really understand what serialization is, or why you would use it.
Just SQL Part IV – Joining Tables
(James Koopmann) Wouldn’t it be nice if every piece of data were stored in one table? Well this is obviously never going to happen. The simple rules of normalization dictate that there will be more than one table in your database. As such, we have in our databases some tables that are not related an
Finding MySQL data with a GUI
(James F. Koopmann) How many times have you needed to look for data in a database system you know nothing about? Well, it becomes even worse if you know nothing about the database application. In MySQL Manager there is a nice GUI for building queries graphically. I have seen this in a few other prod
Building Apache the Way You Want It
(Peter Wainwright) Apache comes in ready-to-install binary packages, which for many applications is perfectly adequate. Apache also comes with source code, making it possible to build the entire server from scratch with a suitable compiler.
Point-to-Point Message Queues with the .NET Compact Framework
(Daniel Moth) This article explains how to write and use a managed wrapper for the message queue point-to-point functions that are unique to Windows CE .NET and later.
A ‘Failed to reserve contiguous memory’ error message may be logged in the SQL Server error log when using a network packet size that is larger than 8,060 bytes
In Microsoft SQL Server 2000, when users connect to an instance of SQL Server by using a network packet size that is larger than 8,060 bytes, an error message that is similar to the following may be logged in the SQL Server error log: WARNING: Failed to reserve contiguous memory of Size=
Intrusion Detection and Security Auditing In Oracle
(Aaron C. Newman) At its core, security is all about risk reduction. One of the most effective security practices, defense-in-depth, employs multiple layers of protection to reduce the risk of database intrusion. It’s analogous to the many defensive layers surrounding a medieval castle: drawbridge,
Fuzzy Lookups and Groupings Provide Powerful Data Cleansing Capabilities
(Jay Nathan) Data cleansing is an important task for data warehouse specialists, database administrators, and developers alike. Deduplication, validation, and householding techniques can be applied whether you are populating data warehouse dimensions, integrating new data into an existing transactio
Intel Snares XML Solution
(David Needle) Intel moved beyond its core semiconductor business and acquired Sarvega, a leader in XML and Web services performance optimization. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.