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Oracle attack code out
Code is in the wild for one of the holes patched by the database firm on tuesday. Read more »
Patched Oracle database 'still vulnerable'
The latest update for Oracle 10g Release 2 does not plug a hole that allows published attack code to run, according to a security researcher. Read more »
Big Blue DB2 Viper database will feature data-compression technology, code-named Venom, imported from mainframe.
Big Blue DB2 Viper database will feature data-compression technology, code-named Venom, imported from mainframe. Read more »
Embarcadero embarks on a new journey with CodeGear
Embarcadero Technologies, a provider of professional database tools has signed a deal to acquire CodeGear, currently a part of the Borland Software Corporation for approximately $23 million. Read more »
MySQL 4.1 uses Microsoft code
Code that Microsoft made available under a public licence earlier this year will be in the next production release of the open-source database MySQL. Read more »
Microsoft may offer peek at SQL Server code
Will the software industry's wave of open-source databases spill onto Microsoft's turf? Read more »
Microsoft to release more source code?
Microsoft is considering the release of source code for a popular tool used to build Windows programs. Read more »
Solaris engineers offer personalised source-code tours
Sun Microsystems chose to employ the human touch when it introduced more than five million lines of Solaris source code onto the Internet. Read more »
Software should defend itself: Oracle CSO
Applications will have to defend themselves from attack in the future, according to Oracle's chief security officer Mary Ann Davidson. Read more »
Start-up harvests customer code
OpenMFG, maker of manufacturing applications, is putting a twist on the open-source development model by taking code contributions from customers and value-added resellers. Read more »
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Create ActiveX servers for PL/SQL packages
When you're tuning database applications, your first impulse may be to follow the manuals' examples and start coding database logic directly into your code. Find out a better approach. Read more »
Simplify coding and maintenance with class libraries
You use class libraries when you're developing any type of .NET application in order to manipulate the file system, access databases, serialise objects, and launch and synchronise multiple threads of execution. Read more »
Return resources to the system to improve .NET performance
A common problem in the .NET platform is the consumption of system and database resources when developers fail to clean up after themselves when working with a database. Read more »
Advantages of the new PIVOT operators in Yukon
The next version of Microsoft's SQL Server, code named Yukon, will include new PIVOT operators. See what PIVOT operators can do for your next database project. Read more »
Diagnose SQL Server performance problems
Usually, the hardest part of database tuning is finding the code bottlenecks. SQL Profiler's traces can help you locate your sluggish code. Read more »
Diagnose SQL Server performance problems
Usually, the hardest part of database tuning is finding the slow part. SQL Profiler's traces can help you find your sluggish code. Read more »
Specify DataSet in XML
This article describes a mechanism that uses a Singleton Factory Class for creating DataSet objects that represent sets of views, locating the base configuration nodes for each view via XPath query. Read more »
Use MySQL to build your own CRM project
MySQL is great for building CRM Web site back ends through MySQL-specific features or tweaks to the source code. Here's how MySQL can help. Read more »
Use Perl DBI to build portable scripts for database access
Learn this functionality and it will become a staple in your Perl bag of tricks. Read more »
Access and reusable ASP code
Take a look at six reusable ASP code functions that will help you quickly build database-enabled Web sites using Microsoft Office technologies. Read more »
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Google destroys Security Through Obscurity
-- Google Labs' new Code Search makes it easier for hackers to find database
username and password details by entering strings that are commonly used
within configuration files. Read more »
In a world of Goliaths, who's got a stone?
-- It seems like it is that time of year again... the days are getting longer, the weather is getting a bit warmer and the top-tier software vendors are on a buying spree. Will you get lost in the shuffle? Why not support your local software developer! Read more »
Database pros get tools in the know
-- Microsoft has just released the eagerly anticipated Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (TEDB) which allows developers to build database applications in a team environment. Read more »
CodeGear ready Ruby release
-- CodeGear have announced this week they will be releasing an integrated development environment(IDE) for Ruby on Rails developers in the second half of 2007. Read more »
CodeGear Q&A
-- CodeGear is the new name for Borland's developer tools business. Builder AU spoke to CodeGear about the handover and direction of the developer tools business under the new banner. Read more »
Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5
-- Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »
The 2008 Trends and Threats to Internet security
-- I recently came across the IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report, which outlines issues affecting internet security, including application vulnerabilities, phishing, malware and spam. Read more »
Microsoft services VS2008 & .NET 3.5
-- Microsoft has just announced the release to manufacturing of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Read more »
Q&A with EditMe: A wiki for non-geeks
-- Finally, a wiki CMS solution that you can safely give to your clients to use. But sshhhh... don't call it a wiki... Read more »
Repent Open Sourcerers
-- The Anglican Diocese in Sydney is moving away from Microsoft technologies, Access and ActiveX provide another way for remote code execution and a local Aussie team wins the Imagine Cup. All that and more in this week's Roundup. Read more »
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