(Michael S. Mimoso) XML security isn’t all about shady crackers, malicious code and computer crime for profit — not yet anyway. Instead it’s about removing complexity and remedying performance degradation introduced by hefty authentication methods, experts and users said at XML Conference & Exp
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(Rick Saia) Oracle Corp. is poised to make what a company executive calls a “big push” in the business intelligence market in an effort to get customers to take advantage of as much functionality as BI tools have to offer.
Testing, 1, 2, 3… Testing… Check?
(S.A. Miller) If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent a lot of time developing your code in Query Analyzer. Once you’re happy with the code, you run an ad hoc test or two on a test database on a development server. If that looks okay, you put the code into production. If it’s a critical piece o
MSSQL Server 2000 Reporting Services : Black Belt Components: Manage Nulls in OLAP Reports
(William Pearson) As we discuss in my article MDX Essentials: Logical Functions: The IsEmpty() Function in working with multidimensional data sets, we are often confronted with empty cells – data is often sparse in these sets by their very physical nature. Because, as a simple example, every product
Quality Assurance and .NET
Do you constantly cross your fingers and hope your .NET applications function as designed? Stop the anxiety! Read this new white paper and learn best practices in .NET application testing. It’s time you guarantee the best possible performance to those that matter most — the end-user. (R)
IBM Breaks Computing Speed Barrier
IBM announced that an IBM POWER5 processor-based IBM eServer, running DB2 Universal Database, has attained a milestone in computing history, soaring past the barrier of three million transactions per minute on the TPC-C benchmark and setting a new world record for computing speed. Until today, no ot
MySQL Basics — A MySQL Tutorial
Welcome. This MySQL tutorial provides new MySQL users with very basic, step by step, instructions on how to get started. This MySQL help page also gives more advanced users assistance in upgrading and running multiple versions of MySQL on a computer at the same time. MySQL runs under a broad arra
Database Tuning Improvements
In this section we will outline the new and improved features regarding database and instance tuning. Oracle has introduced some good features that enhance self-tuning and automated tuning. They are summarized as follows: –User initiated Buffer Cache Flushing –Automated Checkpoint Tuning –C
Introduction to XML Events
(Micah Dubinko) A number of markup technologies involve attaching behaviors to specific parts of a document. XML Events is a W3C Recommendation that allows declarative attachment of a behavior — which can be a predefined bundle of actions defined in XML or a more general call to a scripting languag
Using SQL Server to maintain session state
(Tony Patton) Maintaining data between server calls is a common dilemma in Web development. You may need to maintain information for the application or for particular user sessions. Storing such data is called state management, and ASP.NET provides the means to accomplish the task via various av