(Nikolay Savvinov) In this blog, I mostly write about performance issues (and tools to resolve them). I’d like to make a post about performance non-issues for a change. I think it might be interesting for two reasons. One, if not identified early, non-issues can consume lots of resources in terms of
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PIVOT and UNPIVOT
(Alex Nuijten) The PIVOT and UNPIVOT operators were introduced in Oracle 11g and the other day I helped out a friend using these operators.
Multi-master support in MySQL Connector/Java
(Todd Farmer) MySQL Connector/Java has long had support for replication-aware deployment, allowing a single logical Connection object to effectively “pool” connections to both a master and (potentially multiple) slaves. This allowed scale-out of read load by distribution of read traffic to slaves,
DB2 11 for z/OS Features and Resources
(Dave Beulke) Information overload is the constant at all conferences and the recent European IDUG and US IOD conferences were both tremendous at providing great detailed information. All the enhancements in DB2 11 for z/OS, DB2 10.5 BLU Acceleration, and all the latest Pure Data systems were detai
The DB2Night Show z41: New DB2 V10 Functionality Implemented at Anixter
(Martin) 100% of our studio audience learned something!This show is a DB2 user experience at its best: experience-based tips and takeaways! Steve and Damon gave practical user tips for managing DB2 10. Watch the replay…
Applying a Style Sheet to an XML Document
(Nishant Rathore) A style sheet object that passes into the transformNode method needs to be recompiled every time the method is called. Compiling a style sheet means setting all its template rules in an executable state.
JQuery Zone Tabs Web Part
(David Jacobus) I was looking at codeplex and saw some tabbed web parts and a zone tab web part. One was really good except it had display issues and the documentation was weak! The issue of course is that a zone tabs JQuery UI solution needs a SharePoint page layout to set up the web parts zones o
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