(Chetan Bhatia, Joseph Yeh and Ajith Kumar Punnakula) This article explains how to create models with better maintainability and to change the models in a team environment using best practices. The article also details the product settings that you should set for the product to work at optimal level
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Last part (part 3) of managing your DSNZPARMs using Data Studio
(Willie Favero) Today’s installment of using Data Studio to manage your subsystem parameters (aka: DSNZPARM keywords) should be part 3, the final portion of the story. We have in the previous two post already discussed connecting Data Studio to your Mainframe that is running your DB2 for z/OS subsy
Drop Column Support
(Troy Coleman) I noticed that the DB2 11 announcement letter includes the customer requirement to drop a column. I was surprised that this feature had eight different requests to support either drop column or remove column through alter.
Everyday Postgres: Top 10 psql ‘’ commands I use
(selena deckelmann) I have been thinking about the kinds of questions people have about Postgres if they’re mostly users of MySQL. One thing that comes up a lot is how to use the psql command-line.
SharePoint Online: Pass Credentials to Web Service passively
(Chanchal J) SharePoint Online or Office 365 relies on Claims authentication. This makes things a little challenging when you are trying to work with the Web Services exposed by SPO. When I was trying to consume web Services with Default Credentials passed, it started throwing me Access Denied (401)
SSWUGtv: Chuck Ezell is on the show today talking with Steve about Performance Tuning approaches. Don’t miss out!
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Virtualizing SQL Server: 8 Things to Avoid
(Thomas LaRock) I’ve been involved in virtualization projects for about 10 years now. In that time, I’ve had the opportunity to track my own list of best practice items. It’s a list I share freely with customers that seek out virtualization advice. I can tell that virtualization (and cloud) efforts
Using Start/End Directive-Ranges In AngularJS 1.2
(Ben Nadel) It use to be that AngularJS directives were applied to a single DOM (Document Object Model) node (and its descendants). With AngularJS 1.2, however, you can now apply a directive to a “range” of sibling DOM nodes.
WPF Base Classes – Thumb
(Richard Carr) The thirty-seventh part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial looks at another WPF control base type. This time it is the Thumb class, which defines functionality that is used by controls that the user can drag.
Gather Statistics Enhancements in 12c — 5
(Hemant K Chitale) Oracle tracks the usage of columns as query predicates to determine candidate columns for the creation of histograms. In earlier versions, we would query SYS.COL_USAGE$ to identify such columns.

