(Willie Favero) I know this is going to sound a little silly, but I still excited at the opportunely to use something in DB2 that I haven’t had a chance to use before. DB2 for z/OS is a huge product so any time a can do something new is special.
Author: SSWUG Research
About AWR, SQLT and DB360
(Carlos Sierra) This blog posting is about answering this first question below, which I often get asked:
Family life and DB2 BLU
(Henrik Loeser) Imagine that you had to search for a cooking pot within your house. Where would you start and search first? Most people would focus on the kitchen. Where would you look for some toothpaste? Most probably in the bathroom and maybe in the room where you just put the bag from your shopp
Building A Simple File Server With OWIN and Katana
(K. Scott Allen) I have a scenario where I want to serve up HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files over HTTP from a .NET desktop application. This is the type of scenario Katana makes easy. Here is an example using a console application.
Creating multilingual support using AngularJS
(Hallstein Brøtan) Create multilingual support for the web site”. I just got this task for a client project, and I think it’s fair to assume that others will get this task in the future, so this blog post shows how I implemented this for my project.
Checklist: What NOT to do in ASP.NET
(Scott Hanselman) About a year ago we thought it would be a good idea to do a talk on “What not to do in ASP.NET?” – basically an anti-patterns talks. We kept seeing folks falling into the same traps and wanted to be prescriptive as there’s aspects to ASP.NET that are 10 years old and don’t apply to
SQL Server SEQUENCE Basics
(Joe Celko) The SEQUENCE statement introduced in SQL Server 2012 brings the ANSI SQL 2003 standard method of generating IDs. This is a great relief to database professionals as it solves some problems what are awkward to solve with the IDENTITY property.
SSRS – Creating Drill Through reports with MDX
(Mike Davis) If you are reporting from a Cube in SSRS and you want to drill through to another report you can set up actions just like any other drill through except one small change. The parameter you pass to the drill through report must be changed to Unique Name instead of value.
Check your SQL Agent history settings before it’s too late!
(Kenneth Fisher) A little while back I was doing some research into a failed job and ran into a slight problem. The Agent history settings were such that I was only seeing the last 2-3 runs of the job. This job is run “on demand” and I really wanted to see the last 10 runs or so.
Oracle 11g and Index Access
(David Fitzjarrell) In a forum I frequent a question was raised regarding an index not being used. The poster is using Oracle 11.1.0.7, which limits the index access paths Oracle can use; a concatenated index is created on the table (which has columns x,y,z,t,q and w, for lack of better names) on co