SAML, developed by the Security Services Technical Committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), is an XML-based framework for communicating user authentication, entitlement, and attribute information. As its name suggests, SAML allows business entities to make assertions regarding the identity, attributes, and entitlements of a subject (an entity that is often a human user) to other entities, such as a partner company or another enterprise application.
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Nowadays, a major part of the Web as we know it is based on HTML and its various adaptations. HTML, or “HyperText Mark-Up Language” is what is known as a “tagging” language. It is used to formalise the drafting of a document by means of logical organisational tags. Using these tags, we can provide browsers with basic indications such as “this is a table”, “this is a list item”, or “this is a level 3 title”. In addition to these tags, “class attributes” are indicators used by style sheets to define page’s appearance on screen or on paper, such as “block position”, “item colour”…
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 introduces two new compression features (available in Enterprise and Developer editions) that are of interest to users with large databases. Data compression applies to individual tables and indexes within a database and comes in two options: ROW and PAGE. Backup compression is a new option when backing up a database to external storage. Both compression techniques can be used to reduce the amount of online storage required for databases and their backups.
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