Lumigent Technologies, Inc. today introduced Entegra to help enterprises create audit records of data access to fulfill internal business practice requirements and insure regulatory compliance. Entegra is the only product to provide a complete audit trail of information on data access, including cha

By Vyas Kondreddi – The cover page of this book says, “Practical strategies and proven techniques for building secure applications in a networked world”. And that’s exactly what you’ll find inside this book. The authors are top security experts, from Windows XP team and Microsoft’s new trustworthy c

By Lisa Vaas and John S. McCright – Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp. will ratchet up their ongoing database battle with each announcing new and upgraded features that hit at the other’s strengths.

This article provides tips for using DB-LIBRARY in a threaded application.

by Brad M. McGehee – In this interview, the authors tell us a little about their book and offer some advice for DBAs and SQL developers.

By Sara Cushman – Not all true DBA bloopers involve running errant code or deleting live production databases with a single keystroke. This collection shows that sometimes technical difficulties occur when communications go awry, practical jokes turn sour, or someone turns on the lights.

by Joseph McKendrick – A recent survey of database developers and managers from Evans Data also confirms that direct attacks against databases are on the rise. More than one out of five respondents, 20 percent, report a direct security breach against a database in their company over the past year –

Alexander Chigrik presents a few Math UDFs he has developed. These scalar User-Defined Functions perform a calculation, usually based on input values provided as arguments,and return a numeric value.

Using a number of flaws in the webtask functionality of Microsoft SQL Server an attacker may gain control of the database by elevating their privileges.

This sample in this article demonstrates how to retrieve an XML document from SQL Server 2000 by using a template file that contains parameters. More specifically, a query is issued against SQL Server 2000 by using an ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) 2.6 command stream. This query fetches the XML DataStre