(Ibrahim Haddad and David Gordon) The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the Internet’s fundamental building blocks. It is responsible of locating and translating Internet domain names into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. A domain name is a meaningful and easy-to-remember “handle” for an Internet
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Report: J2EE in Jeopardy
(Michael Singer) Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, or J2EE, is a platform-independent standard designed for Web-based enterprise applications. It is also a standard with an uncertain future, according to some analysts.
Book Review: Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
(Danny Lesandrini) When I heard that Peter Blackburn and Bill Vaughn were writing another Hitchhiker book, I fired off an email to him, asking for the first right of review. At the time of my request, the book, Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services was not yet in publication, but
XML Matters: OASIS Election Markup Language
(David Mertz) The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has developed many XML standards in use within government, law, and business. Election Markup Language (EML) is OASIS’ foray into the world of elections — with an emphasis on voting within governmental ju
DB2 meets security standards, outlines patch releases
(Robert Westervelt) The latest version of IBM’s DB2 Universal Database received a security certification from the International Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation. (R)
Grasping for Data
(Emmett Dulaney) The Linux operating system is a cup that overflows with files. There are files for configuration settings, text files, documentation files, log files—the list goes on and on. Quite often, those files contain information you need to access to find important data. Although you can eas
How to: Use Resultset Locking to Update LOBs Using ODP.NET
After reading this how-to document you should be able to: –Select and update Lobs(Large OBjects) from an Oracle database –Use the Resultset Locking feature of ODP.NET
Trouble with Mixed Extents
(Kalen Delaney) Last month, in “Mixed Extent Usage,” I discussed the algorithm that SQL Server 2000 and 7.0 use to allocate space to a table or index. I also introduced the undocumented DBCC EXTENTINFO command. This command can show you which extents SQL Server has allocated to an object as uniform
Examine Running Processes Using Both Managed and Unmanaged Code
(Christophe Nasarre) Interested in debugging techniques? You’ve come to the right place. In this article, you’ll discover how to write a utility called AssemblyBrowser, which is similar to the Unix ps tool. AssemblyBrowser allows you to browse managed processes, AppDomains, assemblies, modules,
Tool to script Linked Servers in SQL Server 2000
(Sriram Chitturi) SQL Server presently does not provide option to generate script for linked servers on an existing instance it provides for other objects which we see as “Generate SQL Scripts” on context menus. The tool provided in this article creates script for linked servers and gives an opt