Do you think about something when you create a new database? I guess that most of you would say no, since we all use default parameters, though they are far from being optimal. However, there is a bunch of disc settings, and they really help to increase system reliability and performance. Read More
Author: Mikhail Flenov
Web, Mobile, Game, Desktop Application Developer and Software Engineer. Mikhail Flenov has worked on various projects including Sony US websites. He likes C#, PHP, C++, Objective-C and Swift.
Database Security in Oracle
There is no secret that information makes the world go around currently. If an enterprise takes care of its intellectual property and each employee can easily get the necessary information, the enterprise can hope for the growth. If there is chaos in data, the enterprise will fail despite the team spirit.
In this article, we are going to explore the database security basics and examples of information protection in Oracle. Actually, the theoretical basics for protecting information in the database, which we are going to consider in this article, will be also useful to people working with other databases.
Git: A Modern Approach to Code Management
In this article, I would like to share my knowledge and experience of working with git.
The main hallmark of git is that it does not block a file to make changes to code. You make changes and the system simply remembers the changes. When the code is merged with another code, the changes are deployed over the base code. Read More
Database Optimization: Indexes
I noticed that very few people understand how indexes work in SQL Server, especially Included Columns. Nevertheless, indexes are the great way to optimize queries. At first, I also did not get the idea of the included columns, but my experiments showed that they are very useful. Read More
Resource Release in .NET Applications
In C#, there is one huge benefit, which is a drawback at the same time – an automatic garbage collection. With traditional desktop applications, this is great when a platform cleans up the whole garbage and releases memory. However, it is not always good for Web.
When we develop a Web application, Web-requests are mainly short; our code must perform small tasks and work very quickly. If we do not help a garbage collector, the server resources can exhaust in no time.
Setting Database Access Permissions
Server security mainly depends on how correctly you can configure access permissions on objects. Providing a user with excessive permissions may cause many issues. No, a user will not use your errors. Instead, any hacker or I will do this. In this case, you can forget about your tables with data or the whole database.
For some reason, the security of the database is protection from the outside, such as a hacker. However, this happens very seldom. I am a programmer in a big company and an administrator does not even think about protecting the server ports, where everything is open. There is a bunch of databases, programs, and even an FTP server on a single server and it has never been hacked over the past 5 years. Fortunately, I persuaded the administrator to deploy the WEB server on a separate hardware. Otherwise, if someone knew the IP address of our main server, any slacker would be able to hack it. Neither the database nor Windows has been patched for several years.
Performance of Table Variables in SQL Server
In this article, we are going to touch upon the topic of performance of table variables. In SQL Server, we can create variables that will operate as complete tables. Perhaps, other databases have the same capabilities, however, I used such variables only in MS SQL Server.
Effective Use of Classes in .NET
When you need to learn a programming language, you buy a book. From books, we learn basics of the language and how to program, but this is only the beginning – there is also a development environment, and the work with it is another complicated story. Let’s take a look at some secrets of Visual Studio and some secrets of classes. Read More