By Lisa Vaas – The XDB (XML Database) in Oracle Corp.’s Oracle9i Database Release 2 has a set of potential buffer overflows that a smart attacker could exploit to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) attack or to capture an active user session on Oracle9i, the company’s OTN (Oracle Technology Network) in
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Build Rich, Thin Client Applications Automatically Using XML
There are new products afoot that let you do highly graphical client-side applications without the performance headaches of applets or the security concerns of ActiveX. Find out what these XWT-based technologies can do.
PRB: Limitations of OpenXML in SQL Server 2000
Streaming the results of an OpenXML command into other SQL commands fails with the following error message: OLE DB provider ‘OpenXML’ reported an error. The provider did not give any information about the error.
Should Atom Use RDF?
by Mark Pilgrim – The problem with discussing RDF (where that means, “I think this data format should be RDF”) is that you can support any four of these RDF issues (model, syntax, tools, vision), in any combination, while vigorously arguing against the others. People who believe that the RDF concept
Break the Spell on Stored Procedures and Functions
This is the first of three articles by Herts Chen on overcoming the inability of calling stored procedures in UDFs and SQL statements by using OPENQUERY.
Worms and Viruses, Oh My
Two new computer attacks are wreaking havoc with PC users this week, clogging email systems and overwhelming corporate networks. The first, which oddly enough seeks to undo the damage from the infamous MSBlaster worm, is a worm called W32.Welchia or W32/Nachi; it aggressively looks for new hosts tha
DBAs strive for code of ethics
By Robert Westervelt – A session at The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI) 2003 conference was dedicated to establishing a code of ethics for database administrators, a sign that DBAs are more likely than ever to be held accountable by outside regulators.
Building Database Interfaces
This article is about using and building Database Interfaces (DB interfaces). DB interfaces make application development faster and easier. This is accomplished by relocating scattered DML (Insert, Update, Delete) statements into a single shared tool, the Class. A Class encapsulates data post proces
Oracle goes ‘grid’ for app server
By Martin LaMonica – Oracle next month plans to provide details on an update to its application server software and development tools, tied to the company’s emerging “grid” computing strategy.
Sorting Dates using XSLT Extension Objects
Version 1.0 of XSLT doesn’t support sorting dates using the xsl:sort tag. This can present a problem since dates frequently play an important role in various applications. For example, if you have the following XML document, XSLT does not provide a way to sort the Customer nodes based upon the data