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Oracle tool to rein in database admins
Database administrators don't always need access to the information in the databases they're managing, so Oracle has created a tool to protect it. Read more »
South American hacker exposes privacy flaws
An anonymous hacker has posted six million details of Chilean residents online in a bid to highlight data-protection problems in the country. Read more »
Oracle buys open-source database firm
Database heavyweight Oracle has acquired Innobase Oy, a privately held Finnish company with close ties to open-source database company MySQL. Read more »
BEA snaps up small data-access company
BEA Systems has snapped up SolarMetric, a small privately held company that sells database development tools, marking its fifth acquisition in the past several months. Read more »
Australia lax on database compliance: survey
Australian organisations' compliance with database regulations could come under increased scrutiny after a survey found 64 percent of respondents didn't comply with such rules. Read more »
Google plans 'Chrome' browser
Search giant Google has confirmed it will shortly unveil a new Web browser dubbed 'Chrome' and based on code from the Webkit project. Read more »
UK govt to monitor all telecoms
UK internet service providers will be invited to tender for a British government scheme to monitor all internet communications and telecommunications in the country. Read more »
Sybase snaps up Solonde
Sybase has announced that it acquired Germany-based Solonde, bolstering its data integration offerings. Read more »
IPv6 migration begins as ICANN updates servers
The great migration from IPv4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new version of the Internet protocol. Read more »
Gates explains why Microsoft needs Yahoo
For a man a few months away from leaving his job, Bill Gates has a lot on his mind. Read more »
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Ask Oracle: How do I set up a Virtual Private Database?
Want to set up a virtual private database? Oracle guru Richard Rendell answers our Builder AU reader's question that will get your database up and running in no time. Read more »
Create cross-platform database-driven applications with JDBC
The Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API offers a unified interface to different databases, providing a series of generic functions that are internally translated into native function calls. This makes it extremely easy to create database-driven applications that work across different RDBMS types. Read more »
Get your feet wet with Sun's tiny Java DB
Java DB is a lightweight database management system (DBMS) that is written completely in Java. It only needs 2 MB of memory, and it makes it very easy to embed a fully functional database directly into your application. Java DB is also standards-based, supports SQL and the JDBC API, and easily integrates with J2EE. Beginning with the release of Java 6, Sun started packaging Java DB in the JDK. Read more »
Sending e-mail from an Oracle database with utl_smtp
If you're running Oracle 10g or later, you can use the nice modern utl_mail package to send e-mails from your PL/SQL applications. If you're running an earlier version of Oracle, you can send e-mails via the older and more complicated utl_smtp package. Read more »
Forms authentication in .NET: Using a database
Storing forms authentication information in Web.config has serious limitations. See how to work around them by storing this information in a database. Read more »
Oh, my--MySQL!
MySQL is great for energising your Web site, managing personal data, or any of the average everyday uses of a database. Read this article to learn more about this system, and discover when, where, and why you should use MySQL. Read more »
Web application security frameworks (WASF), Part 2: Database lookup
Often, you will want parts of your Web application to be exclusive to certain users. This access distinction requires the use of Web application security frameworks. Continuing our series on Web app security, we explore the database lookup framework. Read more »
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 »
Extracting XML/DOM-friendly data
Java can programmatically extract data from any JDBC-compliant database, but performing this task is tricky. Here's how to pull it off. Read more »
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