(Mats Kindahl) As you saw on the keynote, we are introducing an integrated framework for managing farms of MySQL servers with support for both high-availability and sharding. It should be noted that this is a very early alpha and that it at this point is not ready for production use.
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XML Digital Signature in Java
(Debadatta Mishra) In this article I will present a brief glimpse at XML Digital Signatures, show how to attach a digital signature to an XML document and how to verify the XML document with the attached signature.
HTML Editing Features in Visual Studio 2013 RC
(VKichline) Several interesting features have been added to the new HTML editor in Visual Studio 2013 RC since the VS 2013 Preview release. See HTML Editing Features in Visual Studio 2013 Preview for a rundown of the Preview features.
DB2 11 for z/OS subsystem parameter update #1: Keywords removed
(Willie Favero) As with all releases of DB2 for z/OS, there are always changes to the subsystem parameters (AKA DSNZPARMs) DB2 uses. Those changes come in the form of old parameters being removed, new parameters being added, and existing parameters having their meanings altered (for example, minimu
Parameter to prevent license violation with Active Data Guard
(Uwe Hesse) Although Real-Time Query is a great feature, it requires the Active Data Guard option to be licensed AND it is very easy to turn it on. That has been a concern for some customers I encountered. Now I realized that we have an undocumented parameter to prevent exactly that. Thanks to Marc,
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MySQL 5.7 Enhanced MTS: configuring slave for Intra-database parallelization
(Rohit Kalhans) MySQL 5.7.2 features enhanced Multi-threaded slave which can be used to apply transactions in parallel even within a single database. Internal details of its working can be found in an earlier post. In this post we will see how we can configure our replication slave to use this enha
Better Business Decisions at a Lower Cost with IBM InfoSphere BigInsights
(Mike Ebbers, Renata DeSouza, Marcelo Lima, Peter McCullagh, Michael Nobles, Brandon Waters and Dustin VanStee) As activities in our world become more integrated, the rate of data growth is increasing exponentially. This data explosion is referred to as big data, which renders current data managemen
Getting ColdFusion, Helicon Ape, X-SendFile, URL Rewriting, And IIS To Work Together
(Ben Nadel) For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a ColdFusion server migration. And, unfortunately, the last 80% of that effort has been put into getting Helicon Ape and, specifically, X-SendFile (mod_xsendfile), to serve up files that are outside of the ColdFusion web-root.
Building and Testing a Web API Service
(Peter Vogel) As part of building a client-side application in a test-driven way and using TypeScript, Peter creates a Web API service and writes a test that proves he can access it from JavaScript code — though there are some “wrinkles” in making this work. Along the way, he has an insight about T