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Following newly released fragments of source code from the forthcoming ‘Longhorn’ Operating System, the surprising truth about the much-awaited WinFX/Avalon desktop rendering system can now be revealed, writes our vapourware correspondent.
Previous analyses of the system had suggested that the revolutionary graphics technology worked by taking advantage of advances in graphics cards technology over the last […]

JDBC handles standard sql statements well, but some DB intertactions aren’t covered by standard SQL. Changing a user’s password is such a case, with each vendor offering their own way of doing it. Here’s a few recipes for Databases I have done this for.
Oracle
Fairly straightforward - execute the sql statement
ALTER user IDENTIFIED BY password
The previous […]