System i Developer, the consortium of top educators on IBM i development technologies, today opens registration for the next RPG & DB2 Summit, which will take place March 18-20, 2014 at the Embassy Suites Outdoor World in Grapevine, TX. In addition to the three-day conference, attendees can register
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SharePoint Business Continuity Planning
(EricA) For this blog post, I’d like to discuss a topic that seems to be getting a lot of attention with most of my customers lately – Business Continuity Planning. Typically, the discussions regarding this topic run the gamut but within those discussions I often find that there is confusion and mis
DB2 Optimized for SAP – Set it and forget it
(Lies Ardhian Inaroka) You may have read that the last release of DB2 (8.2.2) was specifically Optimized for SAP. What exactly does that mean? Well in this and the next few postings I’ll describe exactly what new features were in 8.2.2 and how, if you are using SAP (and even if you are not), you can
SSWUGtv: Laura Rose gives great tips about how to handle competition at work gracefully.
Video Programming for IT Professionals Career management advice, coaching and much more. We discuss making the best of your professional development, provide specific tips and ideas for advancing your career and even answer questions from field.
Creating Filtered Indexes using SQL Server Management Studio
(Richard Carr) SQL Server filtered indexes allow only the rows in a table that meet specified criteria to be indexed, without including the remaining data. They can be created using Transact-SQL or with the tools provided in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.
Postgres 9.4 feature highlight: TABLE for multiple functions and multi-argument unnest()
(Michael Paquier) A new feature making possible to specify multiple functions with TABLE inside a FROM clause has made its way in Postgres. The same commit adds support for unnest with multiple arguments as well.
In-Memory OLTP Samples for SQL Server 2014
(Greg Larsen) On November 4th, Microsoft released a new set of samples targeted at In-Memory OTLP tables in SQL Server 2014. In this article I will be exploring and explaining using these new samples. If you haven’t yet looked into the new In-Memory OLTP feature in SQL Server 2014 CTP2 then possi
Create a mobile-friendly to-do list app with PHP, jQuery Mobile, and Google Tasks
(Vikram Vaswani) I used to keep track of my to-do list with a Windows desktop application. I’d pop it open every time I remembered something important, type in a brief label, assign a due date, and save it. The application would launch every time I logged in to the system, so I’d immediately know wh
Instant Azure Caching with MVC
(Rick_Anderson) In this blog post I’ll take my MVC Movie app and in 15 minutes connect it to the preview Windows Azure Cache service. The image below shows the details of a movie along with timing data (1.4 milliseconds), cache status (Hit in this case) and the PID of the IIS server.
Xpath Queries and XmlNode manipulation in C#
(jay nanavati) Today I thought to write about some random examples of manipulating XML in C# using XPath.