(B. Clay Shannon) Although the tip title says “REST methods,” and I primarily have ASP.NET Web API REST methods in mind, I reckon this would work for Web Services, WCF calls, etc. From here on, I will just refer to it all as “REST methods,” though.
Author: SSWUG Research
TO_DATE() / TO_TIMESTAMP() gotchas
(Ian Barwick) A recent thread on -general sparked my interest as I’m working with a large and heterogeneous code base recently converted from Oracle which makes heavy use of TO_DATE(), and it seems this function has a couple of gotchas worthy of consideration.
SQL using Literals instead of Binds. Are all Literals evil?
(Carlos Sierra) Every so often I see systems where there is a good amount of SQL that uses Literals instead of Binds, and executes enough times to create a large number of Cursors. Is this a red flag? As many questions regarding performance, I would say the right answer is: it all depends.
WPF Text Input Controls – TextBox
(Richard Carr) The forty-eighth part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial begins an examination of the WPF controls that allow users to enter text. The first such control is the TextBox, which allows unformatted text input.
Big Data Classes at The Fillmore Group
(Kim May) With IBM’s 2014 focus on Big Data solutions I want to highlight The Fillmore Group’s IBM authorized training classes coming this Spring – and invite new BigInsights and Streams customers to join us.
HTTP Message handler in Web API: Execution flow of custom message handler
(Sourav Kayal) In this article we will understand the execution flow of message handler chain.
ORA-00030
(Andrew Reid) This was tested on Oracle 11.2. When you run ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION ‘X,Y’; X must be a SID from V$SESSION and Y must be the SERIAL# from the same row. If not, you will get an ORA-00030:
SF MySQL Meetup Presentation: Changes in MySQL 5.7
(Todd Farmer) Last Wednesday, I spoke at the San Francisco MySQL Meetup on the topic of changes coming in MySQL 5.7 (and later). We actually went through two different slide decks; the first on features being considered for deprecation in MySQL 5.7 (or later), and the second set providing a brief o
Using Node.js To ETL Mongo Documents for Azure Table Storage
(K. Scott Allen) In a previous post we saw how to work with the Windows Azure package for Node.js and interact with blob storage.
SSAS: Synchronize
(Chris) As SSAS databases get larger and larger, deployment becomes a bigger and bigger problem. How can we ensure that databases are easily and quickly deployed across from development to production with minimal downtime?