(Cindy Russell) Learn from the DB2 language architect what’s new with the SQL standard and what’s new in DB2 10.5!
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Here’s my favorite secret MySQL 5.6 feature. What’s yours?
(Aurimas Mikalauskas) MySQL 5.6 has a great many new features, including, but certainly not limited to a number of performance improvements. However, besides the widely talked-about features such as InnoDB support for full text search, optimizer, performance schema improvements and GTID, there are a
Oracle DBLINK and DB2 Three-Part-Names for Federation
(Henrik Loeser) One of the new features that went mostly unnoticed for DB2 10.1 and DB2 10.5 is the support for so-called three-part-names (nice pun?) for Federation. It allows the access to remote tables without the need to create nicknames.
Test-driven Development with Visual Studio 2012: Part 2
(Mickey Gousset) In Part 1 of this column, I defined test-driven development (TDD), why it’s important, why it’s a successful development methodology, and the basics of how to implement TDD using the unit testing framework in Visual Studio 2012.
Databind XML Feed in Windows 8
(JayJanarthanan) Today, I will be going through how easy it is to bind a Twitter API to a Windows 8 UI Grid. In a few lines of code, you will be able to parse XML from the Twitter API into Windows 8 and bind it to the gridview, allowing users to view information quickly and elegantly.
4 Common processes that SharePoint can streamline
(Ellen van Aken) Few people know that SharePoint is very good at streamlining those annoying little processes that have been wasting your time. Here is a list of processes that can be found in every organization, where SharePoint can add value by saving time and effort.
HTML And JavaScript Viewer For Fusion Reactor Alert Emails
(Ben Nadel) Last week, I blogged about parsing Fusion Reactor Alert emails into a usable data structure. Over the weekend, I wanted to see if I could take that one step further and create an HTML and JavaScript (only) viewer for said Fusion Reactor Alerts.
Mocking Static and Sealed Types Using Wrappers
(Richard Carr) A key concept in unit testing is to isolate the code under test from its dependencies. However, when those dependencies are static or sealed types, creating appropriate test doubles, such as stubs or mocks, becomes more difficult.
Designing Bullet Graphs in SSRS – Part 3
(Jason Thomas) The concepts in this 3 part blog series are heavily borrowed from the book Information Dashboard Design, authored by the data visualization guru – Stephen Few and is going to concentrate on the following topics:-
XML Marks the Spot Part 2: Capturing Serialized Data
(Jeffery Hicks) In the previous lesson I demonstrated how to use ConvertTo-XML to turn PowerShell data into a basic XML file. This XML file could be used outside of PowerShell. However, if you were trying out some of my examples, you probably realized a shortcoming (unless you read the help file for