While the chaos caused by the Slammer worm on Saturday, Jan. 25 has subsided, the tiny program that gummed up the Internet leaves some painful insights into the immense damage a voracious invader can inflict — not only on its direct targets but to secondary ones as well.
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Altova & Oracle Announce Tighter Integration of XML Tool with Scalable XML Database:
New XMLSPY 5 Simplifies Application Development For Oracle9i XML DB Users
Find what each Oracle process is doing
By Indira M – Here is a handy script that will correlate the operating system process with the Oracle process. You’ll also be able to see the most current SQL run by that process. Therefore, if you find an OS process is consuming significant resources in a monitoring tool like top, you can run this
Much ADO About Nothing
By William Vaughn – Developers need to know how to test for and set NULL values in their applications. Here are some tried-and-true techniques you can use in Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET.
Customer Update on the “Slammer” Attack
Review Microsoft’s latest security bulletin about the SQL Slammer worm and download the fix to update your systems.
Laborious Updates Leave SQL Databases Unpatched
By Lisa Vaas – The patches that could have stopped last week’s attack on Microsoft Corp. database software were so difficult to install or so poorly publicized that some of Microsoft’s own database administrators failed to install them.
Boost XSLT With Extension Objects
by Dan Wahlin – When you need to perform functions XSLT can’t handle, use XSLT extension objects. Download a sample showing how to call an extension object written in C# from within an XSLT stylesheet.
XML in Java: Data binding, Part 2: Performance
Enterprise Java expert Dennis Sosnoski checks out the speed and memory usage of several frameworks for XML data binding in Java. These include all the code generation approaches discussed in Part 1, the Castor mapped binding approach discussed in an article last year, and a surprise new entry in the
XML Forms, Web Services and Apache Cocoon
by Ivelin Ivanov – Server side business logic is often invariant with regard to client devices. An email client supports the same basic operations whether it’s used from a cellular phone, PDA, or a PC. To address the needs of web developers who build applications for a variety of devices, the W3C ha
Horizontal and Vertical Partitioning in Replication
From SQLTeam – This article was written by Lynn Zhu and Demico Quinn. They write “Before coming up with the solution that this article will describe, we decided that this would be a great topic to write about and share our experiences with others. We also found that there were not a lot of articles