(Bobby Durrett) Hopefully this is not too redundant to previous posts but I’ve found that I keep using a particular script to debug performance issues and I thought I’d share it and explain what I use it for. It’s helpful to me so I’m sure someone could use it unless they have their own tools which
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Playing with Oracle Spatial – An important consideration when using SDO_NN operator
(Mihajlo Tekic) I’ve been playing with Oracle Spatial quite a bit lately and ran into some interesting things that I plan to write about in the next couple of posts.
filter IS NOT NULL
(Alexander Anokhin) Although Oracle is smart enough it is always helpful to double check. Even in cases where you expect that Oracle aware about nulls and it will apply necessary filters itself, result can be unexpected.
Java and XML – Part 3 (JAXB)
(Kosta Stojanovski) Besides the JAXP API for handling XML files, which I mentioned in my previous article[1], there is another API in Java named JAXB[2] (Java Architecture for XML Binding[3]). JAXB is also used for persisting Java objects as XML files. Persisting this way they are more human readabl
Extreme Performance – DB2 BLU Acceleration
(Michael Kwok) 10% faster? Nope. 50% faster? Wrong again.
My First IBM IOD – 2013
(Ember Crooks) I don’t want to blog too much about the conference because I know that when my favorite bloggers talk about conferences I did not get to go to, it just feels like they are mocking me. I tweeted a lot instead (@ember_crooks), and am keeping the blog entries down to a minimum.
Improved Foreign Key Error Messages in MySQL 5.6
(Ike Walker) It took a little more than 10 years, but as of version 5.6 MySQL is finally using error code 1215! Since MySQL first introduced foreign key support more than 10 years ago in version 3.23.44, all the way through version 5.5, the server has always given a generic 1005 error when you try t
SharePoint 2010 – Why lots of web applications will hurt you
(Russ Maxwell) I know this post is probably somewhat dated but if I can save those that will be deploying SharePoint 2010 instead of SharePoint 2013, this article is extremely relevant. It also might add additional weight to why we have decreased the # of web applications supported in SharePoint 201
Unit testing a ASP.NET WebAPI 2 controller
(Maurice De Beijer) Earlier this year I wrote a blog post about how to unit test ASP.NET WebAPI controllers. It turned out that in order to do a good job of testing the public ApiController methods you would need to quite a bit of setup. Most of the time this was just about providing a HttpConfigura
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