by Nigel McFarlane – XUL is a new Netscape/Mozilla XML dialect that describes the elements of a traditional user interface. Faster and cleaner than HTML, it might just be the quickest way yet to code a UI.
Other News
Plain Text and XML
by Bill Venners – XML sucks because it’s being used wrongly. It is being used by people who view it as being an encapsulation of semantics and data, and it’s not. XML is purely a way of structuring files, and as such, really doesn’t add much to the overall picture. XML came from a document preparat
INF: How to Secure Network Connectivity for SQL Server 2000 Local Databases
Some instances of the SQL Server 2000 Personal Edition and the SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (also known as MSDE 2000) may operate as local data stores, used only by applications that are running on the same computer. If network connections are never made to these instances of MSDE 2000, the instan
SQL Server 2000 Table Hints
(Randy Dyess) As you advance in your skills as a Transact-SQL developer or SQL Server database administrator there will come a time when you need to override SQL Server’s locking scheme and force a particular range of locks on a table. Transact-SQL provides you with a set of table-level locking hint
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP3 Security Features and Best Practices
Get security recommendations on Microsoft SQL Server installation, administration, and deployment, and dig into the details of the SQL Server security model. This paper applies to SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3). It is intended for administrators and developers.
CERN Embarks on Massive Grid Project
By Michael Miley – Physics laboratory plans first-of-its-kind global computer network to manage data produced by the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. The backbone? Oracle Database, naturally.
J2EE Development with DB2 Information Integrator: Digging into the Details
This second in a three-part series focuses on the details of our authors’ experiment in writing code to access Oracle, DB2 UDB, and Microsoft Excel data sources. Get the details here.
BMC, Quest Tackle DB2
By Lisa Vaas – Users of IBM’s DB2 software can turn to tools from BMC Software Inc. and Quest Software Inc. to manage the enterprise DBMS.
Using LOBs and extenders in DB2
In today’s enterprise, unstructured data — video files, sound files, picture files, and even large text files — is increasingly common. Nonetheless, database management systems have only recently been able to effectively deal with this data type. This tip from author Susan Lawson, provided by Info
Cleaning up after Oracle
By James Giordano – Regardless if you are the DBA or the sysadmin, you need to be concerned with the task of cleaning up the filesystems that Oracle uses. There are three areas to be concerned with, archive logs, trace files, and logs files.