(Pawel Misiurewicz) In today’s corporate world business processes are present everywhere. But their sequential automation is not sufficient anymore. It reduces the people taking part in them to simple machine-like elements.
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WPF Base Classes – Control – Fonts
(Richard Carr) The twenty-ninth part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial continues to look at the Control class. This instalment examines the properties that may be applied to a control to modify its font, and that of its children.
SQL Server XQuery: .modify() method
(Stuart Ainsworth) Continuing with XQuery, today’s post addresses the .modify() method against the xml data type; this method is used to update XML documents by applying one of three XML DML statements (insert, delete, or replace) via the use of a SQL SET statement.
DTrace PHP Using Oracle Linux ‘playground’ Pre-Built Packages
(cj) We’ve released DTrace-enabled PHP 5.5.4 RPMs to make testing DTrace on Oracle Linux easier. As a result, the manual PHP install steps listed in Using PHP DTrace on Oracle Linux can be skipped. There are updated Betas of the "UEK3" Linux Kernel 3.8.13-16 and the dtrace-utils tools available too
Importing and Exporting Data with SQL Server 2012
(Mike Chapple) The SQL Server Import and Export Wizard allows you to quickly and easily import information into a SQL Server 2012 database from any of the following data sources:
Large CLOBs and attention to detail needed while reading Oracle Support notes.
(John Hallas) This post was forwarded to me by Vitaly Kaminsky who did work with me but has now bettered himself elsewhere. He writes :-
Write your own Audit Rule Extension in JDeveloper 12C
(Richard Olrichs) JDeveloper comes with a nice audit framework, one of the great things about this framework is that you can write your own code to check for specific standards or fire specific rules you want to check.
Spring MVC Rest – Content Negotiation using JSON/XML
(Pas Apicella) In this example we will show how we can determine which data format to return writing just a single controller method. In this example we either return XML or JSON and the system knows whether to convert to XML or JSON because of content negotiation. This example is based on the exa
Change SQL Server Collation without rebuilding system databases
(Sandesh Segu) How many of you want to change the SQL Server Collation without rebuilding the system databases?
SSWUGtv: Steve interviews IBM’s Jessica Rockwood about Best Practices of Optimizing BLU Acceleration for Analytic Workloads!
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