(Robert Kugel) Oracle’s management held a “Better Together” launch event to discuss the future of the applications business now that the PeopleSoft acquisition has been completed. The company emphasized (again) its commitment to supporting the PeopleSoft and JD Edwards installed bases through 20
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FIX: An access violation occurs in SQL Server 2000 when a high volume of local shared memory connections occur after you install security update MS03-031
The following issue is fixed in this Microsoft SQL Server 2000 hotfix package: • In SQL Server 2000, after you install the security update that is described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article, you may experience an access violation when a high volume of local shared memory connect
Easily format string output with String.Format
(Tony Patton) String concatenation is a common aspect of almost every development effort. However, the combination of single and double quotes, along with escape characters, text, and plus signs (+) can be a bit overwhelming. (R)
Introduction to SQL Profiler
(Mike Gunderloy) I don’t do as much developer support as I used to, but I still answer questions on a few mailing lists. Fairly frequently developers seem to lose track of what’s going on when their code calls SQL Server to manipulate data. “I don’t know what’s going on when I do this,” is the typic
National standards, security bodies release security checklists spec
(Ed Tittel) In January 2005, a joint task force of security and standards professionals from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) and the NSA (the National Security Agency) released a specification for the Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format, aka XCCDF. This sp
Removing variable length row indicators
(Craig Mullins) A row is treated as a variable length row when an ALTER TABLE has added a new column to the table. My understanding is that future INSERT’ed and UPDATE’ed rows have an indicator set in the row header marking these rows as variable length. Additionally there is an indication in th
Implementing Web Applications with CM Information Integrator for Content and OnDemand Web Enablement Kit
(Wei-Dong Zhu, Javier Almaraz, Gordon Campbell, Hanaa Hammad, Nirva Morisseau-Leroy and Bud Paton) In this IBM Redbook, we deal with implementing Web applications using IBM DB2 Content Manager Information Integrator for Content Version 8 and IBM DB2 Content Manager OnDemand Web Enablement Kit. It is
Inside IBM DB2 Alphablox: An In-Depth Technical View of IBM DB2 Alphablox
IBM DB2 Alphablox is a premier application development platform for rapidly building and broadly deploying custom analytic solutions across the enterprise. The DB2 Alphablox open architecture is built to integrate with an existing IT infrastructure, helping to ensure the highest return on prior inve
Learn to Use the New Annotation Feature of Java 5.0
(Javid Jamae) The new Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 (the developer version number is 1.5 and the code name is “Tiger”) provides many new features, among them is the ability to annotate Java program elements and to create custom annotation types. Development and deployment tools can then read
SQL Server 2005 Security – Part 2 Authorization
(Marcin Policht) Following the discussion of new or enhanced authentication-related functionality in SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 in our previous article, we are shifting our focus to authorization features, which determine the level of access rights once the user’s logon process is successfully completed