By Clint Boulton – OASIS — a group responsible for crafting XML interoperability standards — revealed the latest in its flood of technical commmittees formed over the last several months to mesh the Extensible Markup Language with other technologies. Tuesday the Boston-based said it has targeted t
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Oracle Woos WebLogic Customers
By Amy Newman – Oracle released BEA WebLogic “SafeSwitch” Migration Kit, an offering designed to help enterprises migrate business applications efficiently from BEA WebLogic to Oracle9i Application Server.
CERT Highlights Oracle Security Woes
The Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC) Friday warned of multiple vulnerabilities discovered in Oracle servers, ranging from minor to serious. The CERT security advisory is titled “CERT Advisory CA-2002-08 Multiple Vulnerabilities in Oracle Servers.”
Use Profiler to Find the Answers
By Brian Moran – Have you ever considered using SQL Server Profiler to troubleshoot problems you’re having or to find answers to your questions? You should. As a SQL Server Most Valuable Professional (MVP), I answer many questions on the public Microsoft SQL Server newsgroups (msnews.microsoft.com).
From JDOM to XmlDocument
by Niel Bornstein – In the first article in this series, I walked through the process of porting a simple Java application using SAX to one using .NET's XmlReader. I concluded that there are advantages and disadvantages to each language's way of doing things, but pointed out that if you are
Tip: Creating valid XML with object-oriented programming
In this tip, David Mertz offers some techniques that programmers in object-oriented languages can use programmatically to ensure the validity of XML documents at the time of their creation.
XUL Tutorial
By Neil Deakin – "This tutorial describes XUL, the XML-based User-interface Language. This language was created for the Mozilla application and is used to define its user interface. The XUL implementation and the Mozilla browser are ever-changing. Some of the information contained within this tu
Oracle Licensing Under Fire Once Again–This Time From Gartner
By Barbara Darrow – For the second time in as many weeks, Oracle finds itself the subject of an analyst report blasting its software-licensing and sales tactics.On Monday, Gartner Group told its corporate clients to double-check Oracle software-licensing fees to ensure that the company has n
Auditing Your SQL Server Environment Part I
by Randy Dyess – Learn how to audit login security in your SQL Servers.
Schaum’s Outline of Fundamentals of SQL Programming
by Ramon Mata-Toledo, Pauline Cushman – Standard SQL guarantees that no matter what the database implementation, the features of the language will be applicable across all platforms. Over 200 completely solved problems plus 200 supplementary problems reinforce students’ understanding and skills. Fea