(Vinod Kumar) This is an interesting requirement I’ve been seeing at the public newsgroups. Most of the database designers do keep this in mind. But there this has become a common question that I thought I write some of the techniques I can think of.
Other News
Secure SQL Server: Encryption and SQL injection attacks
(Susan Sales Harkins and Mike Gunderloy) Welcome to the final installment of our series on SQL Server security. So far, we’ve explained how to set up your SQL Server, how to manage users and groups, how to manage objects and permissions, and how to set up application roles. Today we’re going t
Berners-Lee Keeps WWW2004 Focused on Semantic Web
(Paul Ford) A peculiar buzz is back in the halls of WWW2004 — the mix of hubris and geek name dropping, cheap suits and over-eager handshakes that last prevailed in 2000. “I nearly invented the web,” says a fellow with a large stack of promotional postcards advertising new social networking softwar
DB2 Web services for DB2 UDB practitioners
(Tim J. Brown) This article provides an in-depth guide to understanding how to use Web Services with DB2. You’ll learn step by step how to build the environment and how to consume Web Services. (pdf)
The Courtship of Atom
(Kendall Grant Clark) We’ve followed Atom — the community-driven XML vocabulary and protocol API for web resource syndication — on XML.com since it was first announced. In fact, I suspect that we’ve published as much about Atom, including columns by Mark Pilgrim and Joe Gregorio, as any other web
Tip: Use data dictionary links for XML and Web services schemata
(Uche Ogbuji) When designing XML and Web services schemata you will often (and ideally) reuse data elements defined in pre-existing standards. When you do, it is extremely useful to include links to such standards, providing precise data dictionary references. In so doing, you make processing and ma
Oracle gives developers .NET access
(Robert Westervelt) Oracle Corp. has signed onto Microsoft’s Visual Studio partner program in a pairing that should make it easier and cheaper for developers to write Windows-based applications for Oracle databases.
Choose a database access to IBM DB2 UDB from Delphi 8
(Jeremy McGee) There are three principal ways to connect to IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) from Borland Delphi 8 for the Microsoft .NET Framework: through the old Borland Database Engine (BDE), the newer dbExpress, or the latest ADO.NET technologies. In this article, I’ll help you choose the r
Beginning SQL Server 2000 Administration Part 1
(Steve Jones) often see questions and posts about how you get started with SQL Server 2000. Mostly from people whose job is something else, but got stuck with the task of administering or working with SQL Server 2000. This article is geared more towards network type administrators, but developers m
What’s New in WSDL 2.0
(Arulazi Dhesiaseelan) The W3C’s Web Services Description Working Group, part of the Web Services Activity, has defined a language for describing web services and the possible ways to interact with them. The WG published its WSDL 2.0 working drafts on 26 March 2004. This is a significant milestone i