(Jacques Roy) Learn how to use triggers to implement fine-grained auditing. This article covers the use of the datablade API to generate auditing events from transactions. It also introduces the new feature of trigger introspection that allows you to create a generic auditing function that can be ap
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XML Security: Control information access with XACML
(Manish Verma) Providing the right people with the right access to information is as important as (if not more important than) having the information in the first place. eXtensible Access Control Markup Language — or XACML — provides a mechanism to create policies and rules for controlling access
Using PHP to Create Custom SSO Login and Sign-Off Pages
(David Jason Bennett) If you have installed Oracle Application Server 10g Enterprise Edition and are ready to create custom SSO login and sign-off pages, then you might want to consider using PHP over the traditional PL/SQL and JSP methods. A big advantage of using PHP over PL/SQL and JSP is the eas
Speech Synthesis Markup Language: An Introduction
(Peter Mikhalenko) Speech Synthesis Markup Language Specification (SSML 1.0), introduced in September 2004, is one of the standards enabling access to the Web using spoken interaction. It’s designed to provide a rich, XML-based markup language for assisting the generation of synthetic speech in web
Taming Tiger: Ocean and Synth meet Metal
(John Zukowski) Now that Tiger is an official release, it’s time to explore even more exciting differences between the 1.4 version of the Java 2 Standard Edition platform and 5.0 of the Java 2 Development Kit. In this installment of Taming Tiger, the author explores the newly available Ocean and Syn
Configure Single Sign-on for WebSphere Portal V5.0.2 and DB2 Content Manager V8.2 Using LDAP and LtpaTokens
Configure single sign-on for WebSphere Portal V5.0.2 and DB2 Content Manager using a common LDAP directory.
ASP.NET 2.0: Login Controls
(Brian Mains) This article will show a basic example of the Login controls using a Membership provider, and will illustrate the minimal amount of code actually written to operate the site. Later on, more articles will detail each control individually, as this example will not delve into the prop
Optimize the Massive DELETE Operation in Oracle, Part 1
(Boris Milrud) A massive DELETE operation deletes millions of rows from a table with indexes and constraints. This operation is database intensive and time consuming, mainly because it forces the database to generate and save to disk significant amounts (possibly gigabytes) of redo and undo data.
Automate with SQL Mail
(Steven Warren) As a database administrator, I like automation. When it comes to my backups, I like to automate as much as possible. SQL Mail gives me the ability to know when my backups are successful and when they fail.
Build Web Apps Using Free Utility
(Paul Holm) Many of you are familiar with the capabilities provided with the green-screen product called Query/400. As you know, businesses use Query/400 to generate reports by selecting and sequencing files and fields using DB2/400 files. With the world moving away from green screen toward browser-