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Oracle to boost app server

By Paul Krill – ORACLE IN EARLY 2003 plans to release a new version of the Oracle application sever that will feature enhancements such as a certificate authority to boost the use of the product for e-business transactions. Oracle also may have something up its sleeve similar to Hewlett-Packard’s bu

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SQL Yukon a major security concern

By Jo Ticehurst – Users should hold off deploying Microsoft’s next version of SQL Server until the first service pack because of major security concerns, analysts have warned. Yukon, the company’s next SQL release, is due next year, but analyst Gartner has said that it expects it to contain a

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Dynamic Method Dispatch

by Zlatko Sirotic – Oracle9i Database has support for inheritance, method overriding, and “dynamic method dispatch.” When you have inheritance and overriding, the process of selecting a method implementation is called dynamic method dispatch because it is done at run time, not at compile time. A met