(Ben Nadel) Ok, so this is less of a “how to” lesson and more of a “how do I?” conversation. I’m sure we’ve all run into this kind of problem before. You need to show some info-box or some widget to a user; and, when the user closes it, you (and your web application) need to remember that “this” use
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sp_SrvPermissions & sp_DBPermissions V4.0
(Kenneth Fisher) These are a couple of stored procedures I wrote to help me with security research. Each sp returns three data sets.
Bulk Copy Data into SQL Server with PowerShell
(Allen White) The fastest way to get data into SQL Server is to use bulk copy methods, whether you use the old bcp utility or use the same capability in other ways. T-SQL supports the BULK INSERT command as well, allowing you to move data into SQL Server quickly from a flat file.
ASP.NET Identity and Windows Azure Table Storage
(Stuart Leeks) In case you haven’t heard, ASP.NET Identity is the new kid on the block for handling user identity, and replaces ASP.NET Membership, Simple Membership and Universal Membership. It is built on top of OWIN which positions it well for the future of ASP.NET.
IBM’s DB2 11 Delivers Big Data Benefits
(Julian Stuhler) “DB2 11 is a unique hybrid solution that is capable of efficiently supporting very diverse workloads in a highly cost-effective manner.”
Automatic Storage Tablespaces (AST): Compare and Contrast to DMS
(MKRAFICK) I am late to the party on Automatic Storage. Yes, it has been out for a while, but I have not used it in depth. Coming from a complex data warehouse environment, only vendors and tools used automatic storage. It was quick, easy to set up, and required minimum DBA involvement. Being a cont
The jQuery Foundation and Standards
(dmethvin) Most web developers think about jQuery in terms of its roots, as a library that tries to bring sanity to a disparate set of APIs and quirks that vary from browser to browser. Although that’s one of the things that jQuery was built to do, and still does, it’s not the only thing.
ORA-00909
(Andrew Reid) You can count the number of different values in a column as follows:
Speed up Import with TRANSFORM=DISABLE_ARCHIVE_LOGGING in #Oracle 12c
(Uwe Hesse) A very useful 12c New Feature is the option to suppress the generation of redo during Data Pump import. I was talking about it during my recent 12c New Features class in Finland and like to share that info with the Oracle Community here.
Implementing ASP.NET Identity
(K. Scott Allen) In previous posts (listed below), we saw how the UserManager class in ASP.NET Identity provides the domain logic for an identity and membership system. Your software makes calls into a UserManager object to register and login users, and the UserManager will then call into a UserStor