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Latest News

  • IBM to release secure software development tools

    Security issues can occur such as SQL injection, in which a database gives improper access to information, or cross-site scripting, in which a browser session is hijacked.Most software development shops lack security knowledge, said analyst…
  • IBM boosts application server with OSGi

    JPA 2.0, meanwhile, provides persistence benefits, saving developers from having to write SQL to access databases, Kristiansen said.The feature pack can be downloaded at IBM's website.At Eclipse, the foundation's Project Gemini is an incubation…
  • SafeNet looks to secure data in the cloud

    SafeNet also sells hardware security modules.SafeNet has many competitors in the areas of authentication tokens or encryption, but Schill said SafeNet has an edge as its central management and encryption system can be used with different databases…
  • Microsoft offers Visual Studio 2010 preorder bonus

    The Microsoft Store and select online resellers will pre-sell Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN Essentials from March 9 until the product launch," Somasegar said.MSDN Essentials offers access to Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows Server 2008 R2…
  • IBM: Software bugs fall, but hackers target PDF, Flash, ActiveX

    Cross-site scripting overtook SQL injection as the number-one type of web application vulnerability disclosure, IBM said.Cross-site scripting is an attack in which a script is allowed to run that shouldn't, which can be used to steal information.
  • Microsoft philosophical over cloud revenue

    Muglia said the revenue drivers in the interim will continue to be Windows Server and SQL Server. Microsoft plans to invest heavily in its cloud platform but expects to see little revenue for two to three years, Bob Muglia, the president of the…

Latest Features

  • What's new in SharePoint Server 2010

    Even without add-ons, SharePoint 2010 provides methods like Read, Create, Update and Delete to link simple systems—SQL databases, for instance.Features for business applications:Business Connectivity Services: linking external data sources…
  • Why Google Android beats the Apple iPhone

    Another useful app, Remote DB, lets you turn any SQL query into a button that searches the database remotely, then displays the results. It's the fastest way to generate a custom app, the only code you need to know is SQL and the UI helps you with…
  • Cloud, virtualisation: Wasting IT resources

    Once created, it provides a portal through which specific users get access to up to six Linux or Windows virtual machines, 10 user accounts and free access to Microsoft Office 2010 or 2007, SQL Server, Oracle and other applications.If you're a…
  • The state of Internet security

    Analysis of WHID reveals that in 2009 social networks were at the greatest risk, malware and defacement remained the most common outcome of web attacks, and SQL injection was the most common attack vector.
  • Buy an expensive SAN to save money

    Moreover, if I have a 50GB SQL database that backs a critical line-of-business application, I might need five or six disks just to provide enough transactional performance to run it -- and end up buying maybe 10 times the amount of capacity.
  • Five worst virtualisation speed traps

    Without that elbow room, the data warehouse, SQL Server-based applications and other demanding systems might not pass muster with the business units, he says.2. Overcrowding Your ApplicationsThe hypervisor, OS and hardware may all be the same…
 

How-Tos

  • How to use Windows Server Update Service

    If you run SQL server 2005 SP2 or greater, you can use that. In response to this problem, Microsoft has released Windows Server Update Service 3.0 SP2 as a means to centrally download updates and control how they are deployed to the computers…
  • How to virtualise SQL Server

    With VMware becoming more common place in the work place, many organisations are still reluctant to deploy production SQL servers on VMware infrastructure. This has been understandable in the past but VMware environments are now more robust and…
  • Ten tips for ultra-safe browsing

    After a quick install, use Scrawlr to scan your site for SQL injection vulnerabilities (a type of hole targeted in a recent Sony site hack).A clean bill of health from both scans won't guarantee that your site is safe.
  • Case Study: Servers go front and centre

    He says that his organisation plans to replicate virtual machine instances of Exchange Server, SharePoint, SQL Server and other key applications in its Menlo Park, Calif.and Washington offices and mirror the data between sites in "almost real time…
  • Case Study: The virtual virtualisation case study

    This was mostly due to a few SQL database servers that had been used as dumping grounds for the databases of many different applications, sometimes forcing an application to use a newer or older version of SQL than it supported.Furthermore, there…
  • Case Study: On the ball

    We experienced a major IT disaster first hand in 2005 and lost data critical to the running of the club, which spurred us on to move from corrupt and manual tape-based backup which had proved to be unreliable, slow and open to human errors to…

Reviews

  • FileMaker Pro 11 review

    This would be a useful feature in the database-driven application we use for story planning, for example, where a key phrase might appear in the headline, description or comments fields.FileMaker Pro 11 offers flexibility in field definition for…
  • Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 review

    UAG goes beyond this by providing some URL syntax checking, which can protect against some types of attacks, such as SQL injection.Third, UAG includes Microsoft's new DirectAccess technology, an IPv6-based feature that can simplify end-to-end…
  • Neo4j review

    There are tools to suck in SQL databases and others to back up the database.Neo4j's documentation for the project is composed of excellent pages and thin sections. At first glance, there's not much to Neo4j, a graph database written in Java that…
  • Cisco OTV review

    When databases fly In the demo I saw, Cisco used OTV to migrate a loaded SQL Server VM from one VMware ESX host to another over a simulated WAN, with the hosts residing at different data centers the equivalent of 400km apart (4ms latency).
  • PHP code tools round up

    PHP is necessarily entwined with HTML and JavaScript on the front end and with SQL on the back end. All of these PHP toolkits offer strong support for the other languages and environments (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL database) that a PHP…
  • Zend Studio review

    To alter table structures, however, you must manually enter SQL DDL statements. This is done easily enough by creating an SQL file and opening the Database Debug view, from which you can execute adhoc SQL code.

White Papers

  • Gap Analysis: The Case for Data Services

    A data service approach makes data access and integration scalable by streamlining development and maintenance, whether applications speak Web services, SQL, or both. Most corporate data is currently stored in departmental relational databases.
  • MySQL Cluster Architecture Overview

    MySQL Cluster uses a storage engine, consisting of a set of storage nodes to store data which can be accessed using standard SQL with MySQL Server. This paper describes the high availability and reliability features of MySQL Cluster, an in-memory…
  • A Guide to Lower Database TCO

    MySQL complements the use of existing corporate databases such as Oracle, IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server by providing a less complicated solution suitable for widespread application deployment, including those with a high transaction volume.
  • Six Secrets to SQL Server Availability

    Microsoft SQL Server has become the data management tool of choice for a wide ange of business critical systems, from electronic commerce to online banking to just-in-time manufacturing to streaming media.
  • The Anatomy of IM Threats

    In one example using Time to infect 500,000 hosts as a comparison, IMlogic maintains that Code Red, a virus targeting IIS Servers discovered in 2001, required 14 hours to infect the 500,000 hosts; Slammer, a SQL Server Exploit attack discovered in…
  • Novell ZENworks for Handhelds

    Additional detail is stored in a Microsoft* SQL Server or Microsoft Access* database to reduce the amount of storage consumed in eDirectory. Novell ZENworks for Handhelds provides automated, policy-based management for your growing population of…
 
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