(Dennis Callaghan) IBM announced a host of new products from its Lotus Software division at the annual Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Fla.
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Managed C++: Determining User Security Roles
(Tom Archer) This article illustrates how to use the WindowsIdentity and WindowsPrincipal classes to test for a user’s inclusion in a specified security group and how to use the PrincipalPermission class to perform a security check against the active principal.
Open Source Database – Will Proprietary Databases Survive?
(Robin Bloor) The recent announcement that Pervasive was throwing its weight behind PostgreSQL, as an open source offering, was interesting for two reasons. First of all, Pervasive already had a successful database product – Pervasive SQL – which has strong traction among ISVs. Pervasive regards its
W3C Issues Key Web Services Standards
(Clint Boulton) The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published three new standards to help vendors such as Microsoft, IBM and BEA Systems improve Web services performance for customers.
Add Search-Engine-Style Paging To Your DataGrids
(Rusty Speidel) Displaying two-dimensional table data in a grid is one of the most common programming tasks. When the number of rows is small, a single page with a scrollbar is sufficient, but when the data has many rows, it’s usually better to display a few rows at a time, adding controls that give
BluePhoenix Completes Second Phase of Large-Scale IDMS to DB2 Migration Project in the US
BluePhoenix Solutions, the leader in Enterprise IT Modernization, today announced that, utilizing the DBMSMigrator tool, it has successfully completed phase two of a large-scale IDMS to DB2 database and application migration project. The three-phase project, being done for a financial services compa
Connect to Lotus Domino using SQL Server Linked Server
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) Many Enterprises create and maintain applications that reside on “IBM Lotus Domino Server.” Since the Lotus Domino server has the capability of handling applications and messaging, it has become a prime requirement for a SQL Server DBA to cross- reference data or import and
NetApp Guards Against Oracle Data Corruption
(Brian Fonseca) Network Appliance Inc. is developing a new data management product to help users avoid the disruptions caused by data corruption between Oracle Corp. databases and modular storage environments.
More efficient coding with advanced user control caching in .NET
(Robert L. Bogue) If you’ve not yet learned about user controls, you’re missing a powerful feature in ASP.NET. User controls are page fragments that can be inserted into Web pages just like a Web control. The difference is that user controls retain their visual design in Visual Studio. This means th
FIX: SQL Server 2000 may stop responding to other requests when you perform a large deallocation operation
When a large deallocation occurs in Microsoft SQL Server 2000, SQL Server may temporarily stop responding to other requests. Operations, like dropping tables, dropping work files, and dropping indexes, that are performed on objects that are multiple gigabytes in size may cause 17883 error messages i