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auDA clampdown deemed unfair
The .au domain regulator has denied it indiscriminately deleted a large number of domain names without verifying their ownership. 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 »
Adobe funds SQLite database
Adobe Systems has said it's helping to sponsor the SQLite database project. Read more »
Porn-friendly '.xxx' domains approved
Pornographers and their customers soon will have a virtual red light district reserved just for them. Read more »
BusinessWeek site hacked
Hackers have broken into BusinessWeek's online site and set up an attack scenario in which visitors to a section of the site could have their own computers compromised and their data stolen, a security researcher said on Monday in the US. Read more »
Massive SQL-based Web attack decoded
The SANS Internet Storm Center has published details about the massive SQL-based Web attack that occurred over the weekend. Read more »
Free Google Analytics: A spammer's best friend
Spammers are taking advantage of Google's free Analytics service to track the performance of spam campaigns and boost their business. Read more »
Security group names top software risks
A security organisation published its fourth annual list of the most vulnerable software on Wednesday, putting network administrators on notice that they need to check their systems. Read more »
Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?
A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory Read more »
Questions remain after Oracle's BEA takeover
Oracle's acquisition of BEA Systems was a logical move by the software giant but it remains unclear exactly what it will mean for users in terms of product roadmap and transition licensing. Read more »
Features (74)
How do I ... reject alpha characters in a SQL Server character column?
Enforcing your data's integrity is probably the single most important issue you face when designing a database. Validating user input is one way of keeping bad data from making its way into your analyses and reports. 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 »
Secure connections to PostgreSQL
The PostgreSQL database server is arguably one of the best SQL servers available, but it's not as easy for beginners to get a handle on it as with other SQL databases, such as MySQL. Read more »
Relational databases: The untold story
Discover the origins of the modern relational data model, how rules were set for relational database theory, and how to put the theory into practice. Read more »
IBM DB2 9.0 Review
DB2 9.0 has a lot for the newcomer or seasoned hand alike. Read more »
Analyse MySQL databases with SQLyog
MySQL Server enthusiasts can now take advantage of an interface similar to SQL Server's Query Analyser. SQLyog provides the functionality for free. Read more »
MySQL or PostgreSQL?
What is a better open source alternative--MySQL or PostgreSQL? Australian commentator Con Zymaris answers this Builder Australia reader's question. Read more »
Secure SQL Server: Installing for security
Securing SQL Server is vital to the design of any database system. Learn how to install SQL securely, protect data, and ensure its validity. Read more »
Locking down Microsoft SQL Server
One of the easiest ways to avoid rewrites is to make security a priority during the initial database design. Builder.com shows you how to enforce security at each tier. 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 »
Blog (2)
Is public domain software open-source?
-- When writing earlier this week about Adobe's sponsoring of the SQLite project, I ran into a complicated issue: is software released into the public domain also open-source software? Read more »
Lets Shindig!
-- At this year's Google Developer Day in Sydney, Dan Peterson and John Hjelmstad talked about Apache Shindig, an open source implementation of OpenSocial and gadgets. Read more »
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Social news start-up Streem shuts downSydney social news start-up Streem will shut down this afternoon, according to a heartfelt notice posted on the site this morning by its founder Elgar Welch. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.