(Craig M. Douglas) “Human resources” is often associated with the department where people take precedence over profitability. But that reputation is being challenged by an onslaught of technologies revolutionizing the way businesses support, track and retain employees. These products identify un
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Opening up drivers for consumer devices, and other conversations from LinuxWorld
(Andy Oram) Last night I was discussing with friends what could be the biggest barrier (or at least the biggest technical barrier) to Linux desktop adoption: the refusal of consumer device manufacturers to release specifications that allow the community to develop drivers.
FIX: A WebDAV request that has many XML attributes may fail after you apply the WebDAV software update that is associated with MS04-030
After you apply the WebDAV software update that is associated with Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-030, you make a WebDAV request that has many XML attributes. When you do this, you may receive a “500 Server Error” error message.
Data Access, Database Engines, and Persistence
(Joe Pluta) Remember when the biggest problems of database design were how to convert internally described files to externally described files and how to pack dates into the smallest possible space? Yeah, that last one bit us, but back in the ’70s and ’80s, who knew? We didn’t worry about Y2K; we wo
Oracle’s Project Fusion: Just a Leap of Faith?
(Lisa Vaas) Project Fusion: It’s supposed to glue together PeopleSoft Inc., J.D. Edwards & Co., and Oracle Corp. business applications. It’s supposed to soothe the frazzled nerves of PeopleSoft and JDE users who’ve been scared silly that they’ll be forced to emigrate onto Oracle systems. It’s suppos
New SQL Server system improves quality of juvenile justice tracking
Three years ago, the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) made a critical decision: Faced with the limitations of its 18-year-old mainframe system hard-wired to 43 county offices, the DJJ began using SQL Server tools to develop a web-based system for tracking juvenile offenders.
IBM peps up its PHP support
(Matt Whipp) IBM is putting its weight behind the popular PHP scripting language with a new educational suite and development environment.
Using a Correlated Subquery in a T-SQL Statement
(Gregory A. Larsen) In last month’s article, I discussed what and how to use a subquery in a T-SQL statement. This month I will expand on this subject by discussing correlated subqueries. I will explain what a correlated subquery is, and show a number of different examples on how to use a subquery i
Microsoft CRM Integration: Oracle Database Access from MS CRM
(Boris Makushkin) Today’s article topic is customization possibility demonstration for user web interface of Microsoft CRM. As an example we’ll use MS CRM integration with ASP.NET application, accessing customer data access, when customers are stored in Oracle 10g database.
A Database Encryption Solution that is Protecting Against External and Internal Threats, and Meeting Regulatory Requirements
Security is becoming one of the most urgent challenges in database research and industry, and there has also been increasing interest in the problem of building accurate data mining models over aggregate data, while protecting privacy at the level of individual records. Instead of building walls