By Susan Harkins – Securing SQL Server is vital to the design of any database system. Learn how to install SQL securely, protect data, and ensure its validity.
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Divide and conquer large XML documents
by Benoît Marchal – Occasionally, you get an XML file that is too large to publish as is. The solution is to use your XSLT processor to break the file into smaller documents. This tip demonstrates how to break up documents with popular XSLT processors.
PyXML 0.8.3
Open source collection of libraries to process XML with Python. There are many bug fixes in this release.
XML DOM
by Jan Egil Refsnes – The XML DOM is the Document Object Model of XML. This chapter explains the DOM, and how the DOM can be manipulated.
RDF: Ready for Prime Time
by Shelley Powers – Considering that I’m “bringing on a book” on RDF this month, I thought it appropriate to answer Marc’s plea for meaningful, working examples of RDF apps and services, especially those that work with other RDF-based services. My problem, though, is that I have only a limited amoun
SQL Server 2000 Security Tools
SQL Server 2000 security tools are used to scan instances of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE) 2000. The tools help detect instances vulnerable to the Slammer worm, and then apply updates to the affected files.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine
Extend the enterprise data storage functionality of SQL Server 2000 to your desktop, small workgroup, and low-volume Web applications with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000), a data engine built on core SQL Server technology.
Pagination Using DB2 UDB and JSPs
By Naveen Balani – This article explains how to display DB2 UDB search results in chunks of pages, using either through the rownext() feature provided in the product, or a Java stateful bean or HttpSession. It also details the pros and cons of each method.
IBM To Add Order To XML
IBM plans to release next year a software tool that will improve DB2 Content Manager’s ability to manage the many different XML documents used by enterprises. Code-named “Cinnamon,” the utility will be integrated with the administrative tools for Content Manager’s repository. The new tool wil
Oracle sees future in grids
By Martin Veitch and Gareth Morgan – Oracle will plug into grid computing with the next release of its database software in September. The firm disclosed last week that the product will be called 10G Database, with the suffix hinting at the importance of support for the grid model, where idle