(Mark Pustilnik) These days, it’s not uncommon for a computer system to be accessed by a variety of users, both locally and over a network. Any data these users generate must be kept separate and private. For quite some time, designers of multiuser operating systems have recognized the need for cont
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(Pierre Nallet) The new security components in .NET 2.0 can help you greatly reduce the amount of code you need to write in order to make your applications secure. Security is difficult to get right, and it is a good strategy to leverage the code provided by Microsoft and other security vendors.
The MySQL SET Datatype
(Mike Hillyer) One of the least commonly used of the MySQL datatypes has to be the SET datatype. The SET datatype is a string type, but is often referred to as a complex type due to the increased complexity involved in implementing them. A SET datatype can hold any number of strings from a predefine
The Curse and Blessings of Dynamic SQL
(Erland Sommarskog) If you follow the various newsgroups on Microsoft SQL Server, you often see people asking why they can’t say: SELECT * FROM @tablename SELECT @colname FROM tbl SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE x IN (@list)
Oracle Vows ‘Oversupport’ for PeopleSoft Customers
(Spencer Swartz) Business software maker Oracle Corp. promised to do everything it can to keep PeopleSoft Inc.’s giant customer base, whose departure could threaten the financial success of its proposed $9.2 billion takeover of PeopleSoft.
Learning ASP.NET for the ASP Developer – Part 3
(Nihal J. Mehta) In the final part of this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to construct large scale ASP.NET websites. In the previous tutorials of this series, we saw how to build single ASP.NET pages where all the code for a page was written on the page itself. This approach can quickly get t
Meet the experts: Eclipse, not just for developers anymore
Lee Nackman, IBM VP of Design, Construction, and Test Tools Development and CTO of Rational Software, and Jim Russell, IBM Lotus Software Director of Application Development Tools, explain how IBM is leveraging Eclipse with the Cloudscape Java database and with IBM Workplace Client Technology, Rich
XSLT Web Service Clients
(Bob DuCharme) I love the free picture-sharing website flickr. I love how I can upload pictures and add as much or as little descriptive metadata as I wish. I can point anyone to these pictures, and they can just view them with no need to register. (For example, see these alien head prizes in Cape M
Exploring SQL Server 2000 Configuration Properties
(Dale Elizabeth Corey) Did you ever wonder what the heck all those property settings meant in SQL Server 2000’s client tool, Enterprise Manager, and whether or not you really needed to tweak them? What are the key points? It never hurts to review. (R)
Migrating to MySQL
(Robin Schumacher) It’s recently become very hard to be involved in the database industry and not be acquainted with MySQL. Boasting an install base of some five million systems and 35,000 downloads a day, MySQL has come on the database scene in a very dramatic way. The “M” in the open source L