By Ed Schalk – This tip is designed to increase the security of imports/exports during batch processing of backups. It avoids the security problem of putting passwords in script files for privileged users (such as system). This tip has been tested on Oracle 7.3.3, 8.0.5 and 8.1.6.
Other News
Oracle to Microsoft: Exchange This!
By John Taschek – Oracle launched a vicious attack on Microsoft’s Exchange at the recent OpenWorld conference. But Exchange is both too easy and too slippery a target: No matter how many viruses, security alerts, maintenance issues or general complaints come in, Exchange is still the most popular en
What is RSS?
by Mark Pilgrim – RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it’s not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syn
JBuilder Doesn’t Revolutionize
By Peter Coffee – It’s easy to offer a single vision of how things ought to be; it’s harder to build a coalition of compatibility.Borland Software Corp.’s JBuilder 8 shows the strain of that competitive burden, which faces the Java development community as it confronts the monolith of Micros
Book Review: SQL Server Security Distilled
There are not many books out there that deal with SQL Server security. Fortunately, Curlingstone recently published this book, which is entirely dedicated to SQL Server security.
Performing case sensitive searches in SQL Server
By Vyas Kondreddi – By default SQL Server is case insensitive, and performing a case sensitive search is not very intuitive. This article shows you how to implement case sensitive searches in SQL Server, using different techniques like conversion to binary datatype, COLLATE clause, BINARY_CHECKSUM f
Shutting Down SQL Server
By Michael Otey – There are more ways to stop SQL Server than you might think.
Build and Configure More Secure Web Sites
Learn Microsoft’s Security Best Practices for the .NET Framework, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, IIS 5, and SQL Server 2000, from eWeek’s OpenHack IV Competition.
Analysts see good Oracle results, remain cautious
Database software giant Oracle Wednesday will easily meet, or slightly beat its own cautious forecast when it posts results from its fiscal second quarter, according to analysts.
ZapThink: Native XML Data Storage Will Evolve
By Clint Boulton – With the promise of another year around the corner, research firms are caught between wrapping up what has come before and looking ahead to what will be. Analysts at XML and Web services consultancy ZapThink made the prediction that the native XML database (NXD) niche no longer ex