By Matt Hicks – Oracle Corp. at LinuxWorld will introduce an open-source cluster file system for its Oracle 9i database. The Redwood Shores, Calif., software maker is planning to announce the open-source move on Wednesday, the same day its chairman and CEO, Larry Ellison, is scheduled to addr
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Editing XML Schemas in .NET
This sample application demonstrates how to modify an XML schema using the XmlSchema and supporting classes found in the System.Xml.Schema namespace to create a simpleType facet for an element named ShippedDate. After running the sample, you will see the modifications in the Modified Schema textbox.
Tip: Make choices at runtime with XSLT parameters
By Nicholas Chase – Extensible Stylesheet Langauage Transformations provide the ability to perform sophisticated manipulation of data as it is transformed from one form to another. You can increase their capabilites even further through the use of parameters that can be specified at runtime. This ti
XHTML 2.0: The Latest Trick
by Kendall Grant Clark – If the Semantic Web means anything, it means changing the Web’s infrastructure just enough so that inter-machine exchanges become as ubiquitous, cheap, and easy as inter-human exchanges already are. One vital goal, however, is to make inter-machine exchanges possible without
Index maintenance
By Baya Pavliashvili – The easiest and oldest way to maintain indexes is to drop and recreate them. If your application has hundreds or even thousands of tables with a few indexes on each it would be quite a task to go through each one of them and recreate the indexes. The larger the table the longe
Using Views to Control User Access to Data
I have a Microsoft Access 2000 application that is populated by a back-end SQL Server 2000 database. To prevent Access users from viewing all the data in a SQL Server 2000 table, I want to use a view that displays only the data rows the user has been authorized to see. Can I create a view that limit
Microsoft Patch Fixes Critical MCMS Flaws
By Dennis Fisher – Microsoft Corp. issued a patch for three critical vulnerabilities in one of its .Net servers, the Microsoft Content Management Server 2001 (MCMS). Potentially the most serious of the three is a SQL injection vulnerability in a function that responds to requests for images a
Keep track of dropped objects
By RAJASEKHARA RAO ALURU – This procedure gives information about the objects being dropped from a database, such as the name and type of the object, the user who is dropping the object, terminal, etc. Here’s what to do:
XML and Oracle
by Roger Schrag – In this paper we will look at what XML is, why it is so promising, and tools and capabilities Oracle provides in order to leverage XML in your database applications. We will stay at a pretty high level. This paper is meant to be a quick read in order to get you started on understan
XML Messaging Interface for .Net My Services
by Jeannine Hall Gailey – Catch a glimpse of the rich, message-based XML interface for .Net My Services and the HSDL that describes how services are accessed.