When you deploy any application, you are expected to have a plan for management and maintenance of that codebase: That’s part of the job. But developers have been so busy learning Web services that management issues have taken a back seat. Use these requirements as a checklist for investigating prod
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Book Review: “Practical XML for the Web”
Rather than choosing the prevalent cumbersome format of a 1000+ page bible with pointless appendixes, a slim padded envelope revealed a 440 page book, thinner than my ThinkPad. The appendixes are real case studies, not XML references or Javadoc printouts. A first look at the Table of Contents shows
BrownSauce: An RDF Browser
by Damian Steer – BrownSauce is a an RDF browser. It attempts, armed with no more than a knowledge of RDF and RDF Schema, to present all RDF data as intelligibly as possible.RDF is biased in favor of the data producer. Consumers may have to deal with all, some, or none of the expected proper
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Design a Custom Paging Solution
by Brett Olges and Doug Safford – Turbocharge paging through large datasets in your Web apps’ list screens with ASP.NET’s DataGrid control.
Coding an Owner Prefix to Avoid Recompilation
A sentence in SQL Server Magazine’s June 2001 “Answers from Microsoft” column caught my eye: “Recompilations might be the source of the slower stored procedure speed.” The column recommended coding the owner prefix on all reference tables, views, and procedures. Should I incorporate this step into m
Murach’s SQL for SQL Server
One way to help educate your current developers (or become a SQL Server savvy developer on your own) is to loan or give them a copy of the new book, Murach’s SQL for SQL Server. If you have been in the computer field for a little while, you have probably heard of Murach, which is a publishing compan
Microsoft Revises Five Security Bulletins
Microsoft has recently revised five security bulletins.
SQL Slammer used British code
By Iain Thomson – ‘Straight cut-and-paste job’, says original author.Code from a UK security expert has emerged as the driving force behind the SQL Slammer worm that ravaged servers over the weekend.
Oracle and SAP chase homeland security money on eve of Gulf War II
Tensions may be mounting with Iraq, but the renewed emphais on homeland security in the US has applications vendors such as Oracle and SAP could mean rich pickings.