Many SQL Server DBAs and developers who have come up through the ranks started out as Microsoft Access developers. In fact, I was one of them. I starting developing in Access with version 1.0, which now seems like eons ago.If you are a current Access developer who wants to learn how to get t
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Cumulative Patch for SQL Server
Four vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could enable an attacker to gain control over an affected server.
Did you Know? – By Hervé Deschamps
Apps: compiling libraries, debugging export, check env vars. Unix prompt. Forms: format mask, ora_nls. 9iAS services for Forms and Reports.
Oracle 8i Row Chaining and Migration
By Gaurav Sharan Gupta – In Oracle we sometimes come across poor performance in our databases. Though there may be a number of reasons for performance degradation, we can prevent some issues by properly designing and/or diagnosing the database. Row Migration (RM) and Row Chaining (RC) are two potent
HOW TO: Write XML to a File in Visual Studio .NET (2002) Professional Edition
This article shows how to write XML to a file by using the XmlTextWriter class. XmlTextWriter provides a fast, forward-only way of generating XML and helps you to build XML documents. XmlTextWriter provides stream write rather than using an object model, such as the XML Document Object Model (DOM),
A Quantum Leap in Browser Graphics Capabilities
by Vikas Pandya – You are no longer limited to raster-based images. Finally, you can draw vector images dynamically inside a browser using the new Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) technology.
TAG Rejects HLink
by Kendall Grant Clark – TAG, the W3C’s Technical Architecture Group, announced recently that XLink "should be used for hypertext references in user-interface oriented applications", and that "it is the unanimous opinion of the TAG that XLink should be used for hypertext references in XHTML 2.0." Th
Meta Data User-Defined Functions
Alexander Chigrik presents a few UDFs he has developed for getting meta data about your database objects.
SQL Yukon a Major Security Concern
By Jo Ticehurst – Users should hold off deploying Microsoft’s next version of SQL Server until the first service pack because of major security concerns, analysts have warned.Yukon, the company’s next SQL release, is due next year, but analyst Gartner has said that it expects it to contain a
Installing and Configuring Oracle on the Solaris Platform
By Roger Schrag – This document will walk you through the steps of installing Oracle 8i Enterprise Edition release 3 (Oracle version 8.1.7) or release 2 (8.1.6) in a Sun Solaris SPARC environment. Everything you read in this document is hands on, roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-busy material for Oracle