By Barbara Darrow – Oracle will get down to the nitty gritty next week when it announces new pricing for its software lineup, including the nascent Oracle 10g line.
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Databases–the next copyright battle?
Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives are circulating a proposed bill that would prevent wholesale copying of school guides, news archives and other databases that do not enjoy copyright protection.
SQLISAPI and XML Client-Side Processing (XML and SQL part 10)
Marcin Policht continues his XML and SQL series with a look at client-side XML processing with SQLXML 2.0 (and later).
XpressApps offers insertXpress to Copy Data From One SQL Server Database to Another
by Brad M. McGehee – Sometimes, it is the simplest of things that take the most time. For example, let’s say that you want to move data from a table in one database to an identical table in another database. There are lots of reasons to do this, such as:
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-039
Buffer Overrun In RPCSS Service Could Allow Code Execution (824146)
DB2.Net, Windows Support
Hurray! .NET support is now available in DB2 UDB 8.1.2! Check out the news story here for more information about DB2 UDB integration in the Windows environment.
RepAgent for DB2: Throughput Performance
This document contains information about increasing throughput performance of Replication Agent for DB2.
Preventing Public Access to the DB2 Database
By Marin Komadina – Concerned about who is walking unchallenged through the Public group door into your database? Marin Komadina examines the security aspects of the DB2 database default PUBLIC group.
Security Pros Get Ready For Blaster II
By George V. Hulme – Companies are prepping to re-patch Windows systems to prevent a Microsoft vulnerability and the high likelihood of a second Blaster-like worm that could target the new security flaw.
XSLT Transformations with the XslTransform Class
The goal of the Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) is to transform the content of a source XML document into another document that is different in format or structure. For example, to transform XML into HTML for use on a Web site or to transform it into a document that contains onl