By Erika Morphy – Ultimately, the CIO’s selection of a database system is driven by the needs of the applications it must support, along with a complex matrix of other issues.
Other News
True DBA Blooper #9: Backup plan backfires
By Sara Cushman – Every DBA knows the importance of a good backup and recovery plan, but finding one that actually works isn’t so simple.
Update Database Information
by Amy Rubusch – A common task in Web site design is providing an update page to update information stored in a database.In .NET, you can design a form easily by dragging and dropping controls such as labels, textboxes, and dropdown boxes onto a Web form. Once you design your form and write
Script to include users in the PRODUCT_USER_PROFILE table
By Fred Duran – This script generates a script that includes users in the table PRODUCT_USER_PROFILE table. In this way you can avoid entering them with SQL*PLUS. This tip is useful because DBAs can disable certain SQL and SQL*Plus commands on a user. It thus provides product-level security that sup
Tip: Basics of bootstrapping with DOM, Part 2
By Brett McLaughlin – In this tip, you’ll learn about a better way to bootstrap in your DOM applications. This builds upon the previous tip, which examined the abilities that DOM natively provides for this task.
Safer XML
Security is a popular subject in these times, both in the personal and global context. While computer security concepts in general are old hats since the 80’s, it seems that everything needs to be reinvented for XML, or at least with XML, including security.
The JAXB API
by Kohsuke Kawaguchi – Sun has recently released version 0.75 of the Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB), as well as its reference implementation.
Security Technology Protects Microsoft SQL Server
By Mitch Wagner – Protegrity on Tuesday introduced Secure.Data F3 for Microsoft SQL Server 2000, combining security software with cryptographic hardware from nCipher.
Did you Know? – By Hervé Deschamps
Database Admin, Reports Server, ODBC, Oracle Apps views from SQL*Plus, Performance Collection Services, Importing Java in Forms, Resource Management on an Oracle Database.
Book Excerpt: Oracle9i XML Handbook
Create and deploy cross-platform, transaction-based applications on Oracle9i with XMLthe industry standard for describing data for e-business application integration and business-to-business exchanges.