(Xueyuan Dai) Entity Framework 6 introduces support for the .NET 4.5 asynchronous programming pattern using the async and await keywords. And in Visual Studio 2013 RC we’re making it easier for you to take advantage of this new capability by optionally generating asynchronous code when you scaffold
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WPF Base Classes – FrameworkElement – Tool Tips
(Richard Carr) The twenty-seventh part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial continues to describe the FrameworkElement type. This instalment describes some of the properties that control the display of tool tips.
sp_DBPermissions V2.0
(Kenneth Fisher) Last month I posted my stored procedures sp_SrvPermissions and sp_DBPermissions. I’m posting V2.0 of each with a few fixes. The fixes are listed at the bottom of the comments block.
JSONP jQuery Ajax Error Handler Callback
(Michael Grace) Are you using JSONP and jQuery and trying to handle non 200 responses? Getting frustrated that your error handler isn’t firing when it gets a 403, 404, or some other response code? Take a breath and repeat after me.
CMS: List all Jobs and Their Owners on All Servers
(Larry Leonard) Using CMS, we can get a list of all the Jobs on all servers that are not owned the way we would like. The code below is just an example of how you can exclude by server name, job name, and owner name.
Manage SQL Server Instances for Decommissioning and Upgrade Projects
(Graham Okely) A team working on decommissioning about 15 SQL Server instances out of 40 SQL Server instances was finding it difficult to understand the status of the decommissioning efforts. At meetings we needed something simple to give us an overview and summarize our progress. Do you have any s
How InnoDB promotes UNIQUE constraints
(Ryan Lowe) How InnoDB promotes UNIQUE constraintsThe other day I was running pt-duplicate-key-checker on behalf of a customer and noticed some peculiar recommendations on an InnoDB table with an odd structure (no PRIMARY key, but multiple UNIQUE constraints).
Retrieve The Call Stack In DB2 For i
(Michael Sansoterra) Troubleshooting problems is often a costly component of application maintenance. Consider the case when the user reports an application crash. Exactly what program crashed? Was it the UI logic or business logic embedded in a service program?
AsyncTaskQueue.cfc – Running Low-Priority Tasks In A Single CFThread
(Ben Nadel) ColdFusion threads (via CFThread) are one of the coolest features of the ColdFusion language. They allow you to run tasks in parallel, which often (but not always) carries some significant performance benefit. With ColdFusion Standard, however, there is a concurrent thread limit of 10; t
Merge Smarter with Semantic Merge
(Rion Williams) Any experienced developer at one time or another has encountered issues when merging their code and has been met with that nasty (typically red) conflict icon. A new product from Plastic SCM called Semantic Merge is hoping to get rid of that little red guy once and for all by using a