(Stephen Bell) Movement towards open source is beginning to slow down, suggests Microsoft New Zealand’s platform strategy manager, Brett Roberts. He claims some local customers are returning to Windows after tasting a Linux-based environment.
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Developing Distributed Services Today
(Richard Turner) This paper provides guidance on how to best use Microsoft Web service and distributed systems technologies in order to build distributed, service-oriented systems using today’s platform. The impact of future technologies such as “Indigo” is considered, and how Microsoft product
Simplify performance management with DB2 Performance Expert: Use Performance Warehouse data to troubleshoot and tune your DB2 UDB servers
(Ute Baumbach) Part 1 of this article introduced the DB2 Performance Expert (DB2 PE), a tool that simplifies the tasks of monitoring and administering your DB2 UDB servers. Part 2 walked you through some practical real-time monitoring scenarios to show you exactly how it can help you. Now, P
Best Practices for Consolidation of Oracle on Linux Deployments
There are many reasons to deploy Oracle on Linux. The more important ones are the flexibility and non-proprietary characteristics of Linux. But the key advantage is that the entire server side code stack from the OS to the application layer is supported by Oracle. Using the best practices Oracle
Built-in facility to encrypt column data
(Kevin Kline) Is there any built-in facility to encrypt a column data in SQL Server? Find out more in this article. (R)
XML Database Products: Native XML Databases
(Ronald Bourret) As defined by the members of the XML:DB mailing list, a native XML database is one that: Defines a (logical) model for an XML document — as opposed to the data in that document — and stores and retrieves documents according to that model. At a minimum, the model must include el
Securing Linux Production Systems
(Werner Puschitz) This article is a practical step-by-step guide for securing Linux production systems. It discusses basic Linux security requirements for systems that need to pass various audits and more in an enterprise environment. If you have been assigned to come up with a corporate Linux Secur
Repeated errors from the Ole DB Provider for DB2 eventually cause a .NET System exception or a Win32 access violation (C0000005)
When you use the Ole DB Provider for DB2 (DB2OLEDB) from a .NET Framework application that is using the Managed Provider for Ole DB, a System exception is thrown after repeated errors are returned from the DB2OLEDB Provider.
POC for DOM XML Parser
(Kiran Khambete) The classes found in System.Xml namespace provide functionality to parse and navigate through XML documents. The attached source code shows how to use this functionality in C#.
Review: Red Gate Software’s SQL Backup
(Steven Warren) I recently had the opportunity to work with a new piece of software for my SQL Server backups. The product is called SQL Backup and it is made by Red Gate Software. With SQL Backup, you can perform the following: –Compressed backups –Perform faster online backups –Encrypt S