(pradeep k) Applications developed and compiled on .NET platform are vulnerable to reverse engineering due to the nature of .NET code compilation. When .NET applications are distributed as assemblies and executables they can be easily decompiled using the right tools to view the entire source code j
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Making a Countdown App (Timer)
(Hannes Du Preez) Initially, the article idea I had was for a simple countdown application. Honestly, there is only so much I can write about in a countdown article, so I decided to give the article more meat.
Serialization Options With Azure DocumentDB
(K. Scott Allen) Behind the scenes, Azure’s DocumentDB uses Json.NET to serialize objects. Json.NET offers some flexibility in how serialization behaves through a number of serialization settings, but the DocumentDB SDK doesn’t expose these settings.
Controlling Mainframe Software Costs
(Craig S. Mullins) Although this blog usually focuses on DB2 issues, I sometimes use it to focus on other IT issues, usually mainframe-related.
DB2 for z/OS: Busting a Myth About Dynamic SQL
(Robert Catterall) Twice in the past month, I’ve encountered a misunderstanding pertaining to dynamic SQL statements issued by applications that access DB2 for z/OS via network connections (these could also be called DDF-using applications, or DRDA requesters). Now seems as good a time as any to cle
Run DBCC UPDATEUSAGE on All Databases in an Instance
(Larry Leonard) A few lines of code for those of us migrating SQL Server 2000 databases to a higher version of SQL Server and having CHECKDB fail because the counts are wrong. This simply runs DBCC UPDATEUSAGE on all the databases in the instance. I can’t say it any better than BOL:
Remotely shutting down an instance
(Kenneth Fisher) T-SQL TuesdayThis month for T-SQL Tuesday Mike Donnelly (b/t) decided to pick a topic to fit in with Ed Leighton-Dick’s (b/t) #SQLNewBlogger challenge. His highly open ended topic is to learn something new and blog about it.
How to Write Queries – Understand your Database Table’s Meanings and Relationships – Step 1
(Kris Wenzel) This is the second of four articles in a series explaining the three simple steps I take to writing complex SQL statements. The series starts with this introductory article.
Advanced JSON for MySQL: indexing and aggregation for highly complex JSON documents
(Justin Swanhart) JSON is an text based, human readable format for transmitting data between systems, for serializing objects and for storing document store data for documents that have different attributes/schema for each document. Popular document store databases use JSON (and the related BSON) fo
RECOVER DATABASE TEST
(Andrew Reid) I logged into an Oracle 12.1 database and ran the ALTER DATABASE BEGIN BACKUP command. This told Oracle I was about to start a hot backup: