(Keith) When I say version specific here, I’m speaking of the PostgreSQL version (9.1, 9,2, etc), not the extension version. An upcoming update to PG Partition Manager takes advantage of the range data type, which is a 9.2 feature. But I also wanted to keep backward compatibility with 9.1 by excludi
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BizTalk Mapper: Best Practices when using Custom XSLT files
(Sandro Pereira) If you follow my blog or already saw one of my presentations in BizTalk innovation Days events about BizTalk Mapper Patterns and Best Practices, you already notice that I avoid using Custom XSLT files for solving a mapping problem.
Parallel Development in Apex
(Jeffrey Kemp) My current client has a large number of Apex applications, one of which is a doozy. It is a mission-critical and complex application in Apex 4.0.2 used throughout the business, with an impressively long list of features, with an equally impressively long list of enhancement requests i
Configure OEM12c to perform checkups on EXADATA (EXACHK)
(Bobby Curtis) How many times have you ran an exachk, produced the text file, and then had to either read the file on the compute node or copy it to your local machine? Well there is another way to view the report of the EXACHK; it can even be ran on a timely basis so you have current EXACHK inform
Custom Workflow Activity for Creating a SharePoint Site
(Jason Lee) Recently I’ve had to automate various SharePoint 2013 site management tasks within workflows. I started out using SharePoint Designer 2013, but switched to building custom workflow activities in Visual Studio 2012 to give me a bit more flexibility and reusability (and to reduce the likel
Import UTF-8 Unicode Special Characters with SQL Server Integration Services
(Scott Murray) As you work with large scale SQL Server Integration Services ETL processes and sequences, you are bound to have to work with UTF-8 encoded text files. Without proper handling, UTF-8 / Unicode characters can cause havoc with your SSIS load tasks. What are some ideas for handling the UT
jQueryUI Sort Example
(CorvinusSoftware) jQuery UI makes it really easy to implement sortable elements on a web page, and getting the results of the sorted data is easy, but figuring out what element was repositioned, and where, takes a bit of work.
Sending And Receiving UDP (User Datagram Protocol) Messages With ColdFusion
(Ben Nadel) A year ago, at an NYCFUG meeting, I heard John Scott mention something called UDP (User Datagram Protocol). He described it as being like HTTP, but faster and less reliable. It sounded interesting, especially for “send it and forget it” type requests.
DB2 10-11 Migration: Application and SQL release incompatibilities
(Troy Coleman) I previously noted that DB2 11 allows applications with incompatible SQL or XML to run in compatibility mode.
Beware of MySQL 5.6 server UUID when cloning slaves
(Ovais Tariq) The other day I was working on an issue where one of the slaves was showing unexpected lag. Interestingly with only the IO thread running the slave was doing significantly more IO as compared to the rate at which the IO thread was fetching the binary log events from the master.