(Mike Eastland) I still use SQL Server Log Shipping to maintain a standby instance for some of my critical production databases. Any time I add a new file to my primary SQL Server database, log shipping breaks because the drive layout on the standby server is different from the primary server. How
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Combining WinJS, TypeScript, jQuery and KnockOut
(Timmy Kokke) In this tutorial we’re going to build a very simple Windows Store application that uses jQuery and Knockout to get some data from the internet and show this in a GridView. I’ll show you how you create a new project, get all the the TypeScript definitions you need, get data from a web s
Deliver an exceptional mobile web experience using WebSphere Portal and IBM Worklight, Part 6: Feed web content from IBM Web Content Manager to a Worklight mobile app
(Vinod Appajanna and Stefan Hepper) This article describes how you can develop an IBM Worklight mobile application that displays web content from an IBM WebSphere Portal server, while leveraging the advantages of a web content management system such as IBM Web Content Manager. This article provides
Online DDL vs pt-online-schema-change
(abdel-mawla) One of the most expensive database operations is performing Data Definition Language (DDL, e.g. CREATE, DROP, ALTER, etc.) statements, specially, the ALTER statements because MySQL blocks the entire table for both reads and writes while modifying the table.
Automating the Retrieval of SQL Backups from Windows Azure BLOB Storage
(Mike Wood) If your database server is in Azure, then it makes sense to do backups into Azure too. SQL Server 2014 supports backups to the cloud, and particularly well with Managed Backup. Once your backups are safely in an Azure BLOB, then what?
JDeveloper BPMN Bug: Activity Name conflict
(Martien van den Akker) This week in the BPM Adaptive Case Management workshop at the Oracle Fusion Middleware Community Forum I ran into a strange bug.
Symmetric Encryption Benchmarks with C#
(K. Scott Allen) It all started with the question of which approach will be faster – encrypt just the pieces of data in a file that need encrypted – or encrypt the entire file?
Unit Testing Asynchronous Web API Action Methods Using MS Test
(Ravi) Since Entity Framework now has a very nice support of performing all its actions asynchronously, the methods in the repositories in our projects will turn into asynchronous methods soon and so will be the code depending on it.
Understanding Entity Framework Code First Migrations
(Shailendra Chauhan) Code-First approach allows you to define model classes as per the Domain requirements via POCOs. Hence, you have complete control over the classes being written or Implemented.
Using ASP.NET MVC5 within Visual Studio 2012
(Rion Williams) It’s always nice to be using the latest and greatest of things, however not everyone really enjoys “change” (especially with regard to their development environments).