(Akhil Mittal) The development paradigm has been changing rapidly for a last few years. The out of the box technologies have been introduced to develop applications with fast, scalable, extensible structure, easy to maintain and easy to use.
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Implementing Ajax Login In ASP.NET MVC
(Bipin Joshi) Recently during a training program one of the participant asked this question – “How to create a login page using jQuery Ajax in MVC applications?” This article is illustrates how Ajax login can be implemented using Forms authentication, Membership and jQuery $.ajax().
Lock Escalations
(Klaus Aschenbrenner) In todays blog posting I want to talk about Lock Escalations in SQL Server. Lock Escalations are an optimization technique used by SQL Server to control the amount of locks that are held within the Lock Manager of SQL Server.
InfoSphere Guardium and the Amazon cloud, Part 1: Explore Amazon RDS database instances and vulnerabilities
(Sean C. Foley and Azadeh Ahadian) The growing number of relational databases on the cloud accentuates the need for data protection and auditing. IBM InfoSphere Guardium offers real time database security and monitoring, fine-grained database auditing, automated compliance reporting, data-level acce
WPF Text Input Controls – TextBox – Styling
(Richard Carr) The fiftieth part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial continues the examination of the TextBox control. This article looks at properties that control the style of the rendered control.
Issue with sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats in SQL Server 2012
(Matt Bowler) I’d be struggling to remember a week where I hadn’t run a query against the dmv sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats to find unused or under used indexes (or even heaps). It would have to be in the top shelf of many DBA’s toolboxes. So I was alarmed when I came across this post from Joseph Sack
Oracle ASMLib: Physical and Logical Blocksize
(flashdba) This article is about the use of Advanced Format devices on Oracle’s ASMLib kernel library for Linux. For background, read this page on 4k sector sizes first, otherwise it might all sound like nonsense. Mind you, it mind sound like nonsense anyway, I can’t guarantee anything here.
Why Hadoop Is Not the Big Data Solution
(Dave Beulke) The big data Hadoop hype is running into reality, and some companies are not liking Hadoop’s options and features. Following are some of the Hadoop facts that a friend of mine noted to explain why their company was migrating their big data project from Hadoop and into the DB2 z/OS env
Production RMAN recovery
(Bobby Durrett) I was on call again last week and again had to do a database recovery using RMAN. I thought I might as well document some lessons learned even though it went quite smoothly.
Investigating the wait interface via gdb.
(Frits Hoogland) For some time now, I am using gdb to trace the inner working of the Oracle database. The reason for using gdb instead of systemtap or Oracle’s dtrace (no link; doesn’t seem to have a homepage) is the lack of user-level tracing with Linux. I am using this on Linux because most of my