(Philip Alexander) Are you prepared for the unthinkable? I’m talking about a security breach involving customer information. Many federal and state data-privacy laws now demand embarrassing and potentially business-damaging public disclosures when a breach occurs, but all such laws make exceptions i

(George Lawton) SharePoint 2007 comes with a tool that promises to drastically reduce the complexity in building the look and feel of Web applications. This, in turn, aims to allow developers to focus on coding, in Visual Studio 2005, some of the underlying complexity in Web-based SharePoint applica

(Robert Bogue) If you’ve ever worked on more than the most trivial installation program, you realize that developing installers isn’t for the faint of heart. After spending days or weeks learning about the MSI file format, how to assemble tables, and how to add dialogs, you’re left with a collection

(Sue Harper) In March 2006, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle SQL Developer, a GUI for Oracle Database. Oracle SQL Developer provides an easy-to-install, lightweight, multiplatform GUI that enables database developers to do a variety of database activities, including browsing, creating, an

(Rob Garrison) I am writing this month from Redmond, where I am attending the SQL Server Katmai “System Design Review”. Considering that we’re fairly close to seeing the first publicly-available CTP for Katmai, I have decided to end my struggle with supporting both SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 200

(Whei-Jen Chen, AnNa Choi, Arthur V Sammartino, Carlos Eduardo Abramo Pinto, Fraser McArthur, Marina Greenstein, Nora Sokolof and Scott J. Martin) This redbook will provide guidelines for migrating existing Oracle 10g database and applications to DB2 9. (pdf)

(James F. Koopmann) This is the first in a series to introduce some of the new tracing concepts and options within Oracle.

(Damon Armstrong) I was remoting into a SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) box yesterday because I needed to update the configuration on a few of the servers in the farm. Like most production systems, the server did not have Visual Studio, so I was using Notepad to edit the configuration. As you may know, nav

(Karim K. Hirji) The spectacular collapses of once venerable companies (Enron, WorldComm, and so on) led to a paradigm shift in the way business is conducted. Stakeholder expectations and public scrutiny of performance and business conduct have increased. Individual shareholders, institutional inves

(Yves Schnabes) Navigating through a used book sale at my local public library, I was struck by the disorganization evident on each shelf. Cookbooks were stacked with children’s books, and sci-fi novels were mixed with historical biographies. Once I rifled through the mess for about an hour, I final