(Ben Nadel) I want to measure all the things! Unfortunately, I’m not so great at it. So, I want to really start digging into things like StatsD and Graphite. For me, I learn best (sometimes) by building. So, instead of installing StatsD and Graphite (which I hear is a pain to do), I built GraphiteD.
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SSIS – Using Kill with SP_Who to Break locks
(Mike Davis) The dreaded table lock can occur and cause your SSIS packages to fail. A popular request I receive asks “How can I get rid of these table locks?” This blog will show you how to build a package that will kill any SPID’s that are running on your system that could be locking a table.
Creating Reusable Components For ASP.NET Razor Web Pages
(Mike Brind) There are a number of ways that you can maximise code re-use within a Razor Web Pages site: Layout pages, helpers, functions and so on. As you build more sites, you soon find that you are repeating code between them. You might have a collection of custom utility functions and extension
Introducing the OTN Developer Day Database 12c VirtualBox Image
(Jeff Smith) If you’re looking for an already configured Oracle Database 12c environment with a database already setup and all the software you need to learn database programming, design, and administration concepts, then look no further:
Parse time by day of the week
(Bobby Durrett) I wanted to find out if queries against a particular table were experiencing parse time during the week. We had previously seen issues where queries on the table would be stuck parsing for tens of minutes before they started actually running. I think this has been resolved but I’m
Additional Processes Authorized for zIIP in DB2 11
(Troy Coleman) As I read this Willie Favero post about zIIP capacity, I got to wondering about additional zIIP processing capabilities in DB2 11.
Rendering ASP.NET
(Jimmy Bogard) I work on quite a few line of business applications, and a common ask is for printable reports. I could use a tool like SQL Server Reporting Services, but to be honest the report building and styling of those tools is difficult to say the least.
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Validate Form on Click of Anchor Using jQuery
(Anubhav Chaudhary) This article explains how to validate a form on a click of an Anchor using jQuery.
WebSphere Adapter for Flat Files – a technical deep dive, Part 2: How to configure for parallel outbound processing and archiving
(Susann Fritzsche and Katrin Hagemann) This 2-part article series describes a customer solution that extensively used the inbound and outbound process of WebSphere Adapter for Flat Files. Part 1 explained how to sequence and order the files and the different possibilities to configure the polling me