(Kurt Struyf) This month’s focus is “legacy migrations,” and in the next few weeks we will have a number of migration stories by customers and consultants. Be sure to regularly check in and find out how they handled some of the challenges. As the first article of this month, I would like to share my
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XML vs. JSON – A Primer
(Sean Lindo) As more and more Web and mobile applications utilize APIs to drive their respective front ends, performance becomes an emerging concern. XML, long used as a method for exchanging data, is giving way to JSON, now considered the gold standard.
Dock Height of DOM Elements with jQuery
(meula) This tip shows how to dock height of DOM elements by extending jquery objects. It docks any DOM element to its parent height for any size and also fires on resize event.
ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part Infrastructure
(Malik, Sahil) Web applications today do a number of things.
AWR Reporting #6 – SQL Statements
(John Brady) This is the last of the main set of posts on this topic. As for the last post, I’ll try and keep this brief and post the SQL involved.
‘Compressing’ Matters
(David Fitzjarrell) Compression is often mentioned in reverent tones as the cure for database space problems, and properly used it can be just that. However simply throwing compression at a table without careful consideration of what can be accomplished or what behavior to expect afterwards can leav
APPEND_VALUES and SYS_DL_CURSOR Hints with HCC
(Kerry Osborne) The APPEND_VALUES hint was introduced in 11.2 to allow direct path inserts with variables using the VALUES clause. i.e.
InnoDB adaptive flushing in MySQL 5.6: checkpoint age and io capacity
(Alexey Stroganov) In MySQL 5.6 InnoDB has a dedicated thread (page_cleaner) that’s responsible for performing flushing operations. Page_cleaner performs flushing of the dirty pages from the buffer pool based on two factors:
Tuning queries and workloads from InfoSphere Optim Performance Manager
(Cheung-Yuk Wu, Shannon Rouiller, Robert Heath, Vincent Petrillo and Cliff Leung) You can learn more about query tuning using the InfoSphere Optim Performance Manager (OPM) web console. There are step-by-step descriptions showing you how to tune and manage recommendations in the OPM web console. You
Design Manager and The Return of the Snazzy Looking 15 Minute Weather Web Part
(Erik Abderhalden) What I love about the 15 minute weather web part is how easy it is to style. Unlike other weather web parts, you can really get into this one and style it however you want.