(Noel Herrick) I’ve covered some strange default behavior around nulls in MySQL. There’s another nuance to this issue: you can still insert rows without specifying values for not null columns. MySQL will helpfully give you a default value (this is not really helpful – true help would be a quick fail
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5 Big Data Analytics Success Factors
(Dave Beulke) Everyone is talking about implementing analytics within their company or department and using the power of big data to gain a competitive advantage. Previously, I talked about how to get your analytics efforts going in this blog post (http://davebeulke.com/big-data-five-ways-to-get-an
It’s time to ask ‘Do I have an adequate zIIP capacity?’
(Willie Favero) First off, this is not a sales pitch, although some may inadvertently read the following paragraphs as “buy more…”. Rather, today’s post has to do with maximizing the effectiveness of your use of zIIPs (System z Integrated Information Processor ). It’s has become more important
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for Open Systems
(Karen Orlando, Otavio Rocha Filho, Danijel Paulin, Antonio Rainero and Deborah Sparks) This IBM Redbooks publication for the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for the Open environment walks you through the process of establishing sessions, and managing and monitoring copy services
Looking at ASP.NET MVC 5.1 and Web API 2.1 – Part 1 – Overview and Enums
(Jon Galloway) ASP.NET MVC 5.1, Web API 2.1 and Web Pages 3.1 were released on January 20. I call it the star-dot-one release, not sure if that one’s going to stick. Here are the top links to find out more:
Merge Replication Identity Range Management,an identity disorder? Part 1
(Mohammed Mawla) No no , we are not opening a new psychology practice at Pythian; unless we consider something like picking an optimal execution plan a form of schizophrenia!
Plan change using load_plans_from_cursor_cache
(Anand) This post is more of a note for myself and might be helpful to few other.
JSON-New World of Data-Interchange
(Aryan Bhagat) JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language, Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition – December 1999.
Encryption in SQL Server (Part 3)
(Steve Wake) Now that we have the database setup for encryption as shown in Parts 1 and 2 of this series, it is time to actually encrypt the data in the database and view the data in decrypted form.
SSWUGtv: AMI announces the launch of its greatly enhanced StorTrends Hybrid SSD Array in today’s interview with Stephen Wynkoop.
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