By Joe McKendrick – Call it this year’s roll call of pain — Slammer, Lovsan, MS Blaster, Welchi, Sobig.F. In recent times, an infestation of worms and viruses has wreaked havoc on computers and networks throughout the world. Are databases safe from all this carnage? The answer, at least for now, is
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Oracle Weighs Security in 10g
By Lisa Vaas – Oracle Corp. is putting a component called Oracle Internet Directory at the core of the security perimeter in its upcoming 10g grid-computing technology.
Oracle silent on 10g costs
By Martin Veitch – Oracle will not announce its pricing strategy for its 10g Database and Application Server products until they ship, but indicators suggest the firm will offer a menu of options. This could lead to confusion as the enterprise software giant attempts to make its upgraded products ap
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Teach Yourself DB2 Universal Database in 21 Days
by Susan Visser and Bill Wong – A book/CD-ROM tutorial on basics of the database in 21 lessons. Includes real-world examples, tips, and review questions. Coverage includes installing and configuring DB2 server, creating databases, ensuring data security, and diagnosing problems.
Home-grown Data Mining in SQL Server
by Drew Georgopulos – You need certain data values to complete a database-programming job, but you don’t know where they’re located. What can you do? Follow this 10-Minute Solution to navigate through an unfamiliar database, and locate and extract the table and column names that house your values.
Taking XML’s measure
By David Becker – Tim Bray and his colleagues in the World Wide Web Consortium had a very specific mission when they set out to define a new standard seven years ago. They needed a new format for Internet-connected systems to exchange data, a task being handled with increasing awkwardness by HyperTe
Introduction to SALT (Part 5)
By Hitesh Seth – So far in our introductory series on SALT (Speech Application Language Tags) we have learned the basic architecture of SALT-based applications. In the previous article in the series we took a closer look at the components of Microsoft .NET Speech SDK (Beta 2) and a brief introductio
Web Disservices: Microsoft’s Misstep
by Mark Pilgrim – Microsoft recently announced Microsoft.com Web Services, through which developers can get programmatic access to Microsoft.com services. Microsoft has big plans to expand the program to include querying MSDN, MS Technet, and MS Support sites. For now, however, the only service avai
DB2 Certification
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