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Regular Expressions Basics: (9) Optional Repetitions
(Ged Mead) In the previous blog post, I looked at ways you can find matches with two or more repetitions. Now, I’ll cover cases where you want less precise numbers of repetitions or appearances of characters.
Using LDAP to authenticate your APEX users
(Scott Wesley) It can be fairly simple to configure your APEX application to authenticate against your Active Directory server – this means your users can use the same username/password as the use to log onto their desktop machine – a big plus.
OOW13: JSON Support in the Oracle 12c Database (upcoming feature)
(Marco Gralike) Currently I am attending the “Schema less data management using SQL/JSON” session during Oracle OpenWorld. This session demonstrated the new upcoming feature (=not in the current release) in the 12c database which supports JSON data handling in the database.
Functions in GemFire
(Pas Apicella) You can execute data-independent functions or data-dependent functions in vFabric GemFire. You run data-independent functions by targeting a specific member or specific members in your distributed system, or by targeting logical member groups on which to execute your function. If you
Benchmark SQL Server Wait Statistics
(JohnSterrett) One of the secret weapons in performance tuning with SQL Server is understanding wait statistics. Every time a process (spid) changes its status from running to suspended it is typically due to resource wait or a signal wait. For example, you are typically waiting on PAGEIOLATCH_SH wh
Data Warehouse Maturity Model
(James Serra) I have talked about the Business Intelligence Maturity Model (see Business Intelligence Maturity Assessment), but I wanted to dig further into one area and talk about the Data Warehouse Maturity Model.
Find Skew in Distributed Tables
(Bradley Schacht) The SQL Server PDW (Parallel Data Warehouse) is a beast of a machine. Spreading workload across multiple nodes inside the PDW provides a huge performance gain over a traditional SQL Server; however, when laying out tables it is a little different.
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SQL Server Reporting Services Tips and Tricks to Improve the End User Experience
(Dattatrey Sindol) In this tip, we will look at a few SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Tips and Tricks to improve the end-user experience.