(Suprotim Agarwal) Today we look at a feature in ASP.NET MVC that is not really new but immensely useful if we are building ASP.NET MVC applications that lean on the server to do the UI rendering rather than using JavaScript frameworks like KnockoutJS.
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jQuery – Interacting With DOM
(Arun Ramachandran India) In my previous blog post, we discussed about different Selectors in jQuery. If you didn’t read that, I strongly recommend you to do so before proceeding with this article as this is a continuation of that article.
Oracle Exadata: DMA or DBA
(David Fitzjarrell) Exadata is a different system for a DBA to administer. Some tasks in this environment, such as running the exachk script, require root O/S privileges. This script can be run by the system administrator, and this will be the case if you are managing Exadata as a DBA. However, a ne
Yet another one on ‘Oracle Type inheritance and advanced type casting’
(Martien van den Akker) Triggered by a comment on an older article I wrote a little article yesterday on determining the instance of an object. As far as known by me at least and seemingly by Google there is no java instanceOf counterpart in Oracle Pl/Sql. In SQL Where clauses you can use the ‘is of
sp_executesql Rules, EXEC drools
(Richard_RP) I was writing some dynamic SQL today and I needed to output a parameter for the count in the dynamic SQL. I’ve always use EXECUTE but I did not know how to use the value returned from the executed SQL.
DB2 for z/OS: Want to use High-Performance DBATs? Check your MAXDBAT Value
(Robert Catterall) Of the features introduced with DB2 10 for z/OS, high-performance DBATs is one of my favorites. It enabled (finally) DDF-using applications to get the CPU efficiency benefit that comes from combining thread reuse with the RELEASE(DEALLOCATE) package bind option — a performance tu
Download a Free Flashbook
(Susan Visser) Flashbooks can be downloaded in PDF format for free. Here are the Flashbooks that were featured at events in 2013:
WPF Information Controls – TextBlock Basics
(Richard Carr) The forty-first part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial begins to look at another of the WPF user information controls. This time it’s the TextBlock control, which allows the display of short text items with formatting.
Quick Tip for extracting SQL Server data to Hive
(Denny Lee) While I have documented various techniques to transfer data from Hadoop to SQL Server / Analysis Services (e.g. How Klout changed the landscape of social media with Hadoop and BI Slides Updated, SQL Server Analysis Services to Hive, etc.), this post calls out the reverse – how to quickly
Pager script for shrinking EXPLAIN output
(Sergey Petrunia) Everyone who works with MySQL (or MariaDB) query optimizer has to spend a lot of time looking at EXPLAIN outputs. You typically first look at the tabular form, because it is easier to read. You can immediately see what the join order is, what numbers of records will be read, etc: