Shredding refers to the decomposition of XML data structures into the columns of a relational database. It can also refer to overwriting the contents of a file in an attempt to prevent recovery of deleted data.
Questions tagged [shred]
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Shred: Doesn't work on Journaled FS?
Shred documentation says shred is "not guaranteed to be effective" (See bottom). So if I shred a document on my Ext3 filesystem or on a Raid, what happens? Do I shred part of the file? Does it sometimes shred the whole thing and sometimes not? …
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Shredding XML from table column into a view in SQL Server
I currently have this code which stores XML into an XML-type column called data, in a table called Storage.
CREATE TABLE Storage
(
ID INT IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY,
data XML NOT NULL
)
GO
INSERT INTO Storage(data)…
user1320771
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Modify XML in SQL server to add a root node
To give some background to this problem first, I am rewriting some code that currently loops through some xml, doing an insert to a table at the end of each loop - replacing with a single sp that takes an xml parameter and does the insert in one go,…
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Shredding files in .NET
Is there a SDK that can be used in managed code to shred files securely?
EDIT: This is the only link i could find in google that helps me
EDIT: Either SDK or some kind of COM based component.
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Writing a file shredder in python or ruby?
In the effort to learn python and/or ruby, I was wondering how a file shredder would be implemented? I would like it to take in a file as an argument and then employ an algorithm to make that file unrecoverable. Would possibly add the support for…
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Permanently delete file in Qt
I had to change the program on Qt that I did not write. I located the place in the code and know what I want it to, but I do not know what to change, so seek help.
Code is as follows:
QFile file(path);
qint64 size = filesize(path);
qint64…
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XML Oracle - Extract Repeating Nodes
I have xml doc loaded in to xmltype column in Oracle 11g. My doc has repeating nodes that I need to flatten. I have been using XMLTable but get the singleton error. I found a solution if child nodes were involved, but cannot get it to work with…
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Extracting a value from an XML column in SQL Server
I am trying to extract the data values present in the FirstName and LastName from the below XML which is present as a string in a column in a SQL Server table.
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Shredding XML column in SQL Server into new tables
I have a source table, each row of which has an XML field that contains an unknown number of survey responses that I need to shred and put into output tables. I've tried nodes and OPENXML and I can't seem to get it working. From my research, I'm…
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Shredding XML file is not returning all of the data
I have an XML file that looks like this:
