(Noel Davis) Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories. In this column, we look at problems in DB2, SHOUTcast, nasm, Vilistextum, libtiff, wxGTK2, phpGroupWare, Vim, namazu2, and htmlheadline.
Other News
Report-enable Your Web Apps with Microsoft Reporting Services
(Teo Lachev) Reporting is an integral part of almost all of today’s Web applications. However, while the tools to create such applications have matured, Web reporting often boils down to generating tabular reports in the form of HTML tables. Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services fills in this
Oracle Expands Its Performance Management Offerings
(Paul Dean) The new Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting — EPB — is the hub of Oracle’s corporate performance management offerings. You’ll want to look at this product if you need to control the business processes of planning, budgeting, forecasting, monitoring and analysis, especially if you’re
MySQL Users Conference 2005
The MySQL Users Conference 2005 is the largest gathering of MySQL developers and users. The 2005 Conference hosts leading industry keynote speakers, the latest MySQL Open Source technologies, in-depth sessions and tutorials, and an exhibit hall showcasing the latest open source technologies.
DB2 Basics: Unlocking the secrets surrounding the locking behavior of the DB2 UDB data movement utilities
(Roman B. Melnyk) The DB2 Universal Database data movement utilities — export, import, and load — support various levels of concurrency, which is primarily enforced through the placement of different types of locks on resources such as database tables or rows. This article describes the locking be
Optimizing Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services: MDX Optimization Techniques: Optimizing the CROSSJOIN() Function
(William E. Pearson, III) In this article, we will return to our intermittent examination of various MDX optimization techniques which we have intermingled with other MSAS optimization topics within this series. The function upon which we will focus will be CROSSJOIN(), whose mission it is to co
XML Storage in SQL Server: Strategies and Fallout
(Eric McMullen) Cliché but true: To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. We developers seem to be especially vulnerable to this problem because we like technology for its own sake. We’ll get a whole bagful of hammers when SQL Server 2005 (formerly codenamed Yukon) comes out this year
Update an HTML Form Using an XML ActiveX Object and a Servlet
(Farukh Ijaz) The minimum requirement for this tip to work is to have Internet Explorer with MSXML objects installed when Windows is installed. The DOMDocument is also available in the new versions of Netscape. This example displays user information based on the login id without submitting the form.
Review: Reporting for duty
(David McAmis) Reporting has always been a sore spot for application developers. Most applications require some sort of output, either on screen or in printed form and there have been a variety of tools that developers have tried over the years to help them quickly create this output without having
Creating AIX Resource Sets for DB2 Partitioning
When using DB2 UDB with the Data Partitioning Feature on AIX, you need to create resource sets for the data partitions. This Technote provides the steps to configure AIX resource sets to enable processor affinity for DB2 partitions.