Tim Vincent, IBM Fellow, vice president, and CTO, IBM Information Management, and Paul Zikopoulos, Information Management WW technical sales, WW Competitive Database and Optimized Systems, discuss IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration database innovation in part 2 of this video series.
Author: SSWUG Research
Do I need to learn R?
(Catherine Dalzell) R is a flexible programming language designed to facilitate exploratory data analysis, classical statistical tests, and high-level graphics. With its rich and ever-expanding library of packages, R is on the leading edge of development in statistics, data analytics, and data minin
Practical SQL: Variables in SQL
(Joe Pluta) I’ve long extolled the virtues of common table expressions (or CTEs), and I’ve also showed you how to use UNION statements to great advantage. They’re powerful, and I find them particularly well suited to performing ad hoc analysis on production data.
Tools for SharePoint User Experience (UX) Design: Wireframing
(Adrian England) Following on from the previous articles in this series on Scamping and Paper Prototyping, the topic for this article is the Wireframe.
Leveraging Claims-Based Security in ASP.NET 4.5
(Peter Vogel) Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 support for claims-based security can make your existing authorization system more powerful and flexible, even if you never intend to start working with third-party security providers. Plus, it’s backward-compatible with virtually all of the authorization c
Parsing Fusion Reactor Alert Emails Into A Usable Data Structure
(Ben Nadel) At work, we use Fusion Reactor to help monitor the health and performance of our ColdFusion J2EE applications. When certain application metrics reach a given threshold, Fusion Reactor sends out an Email Alert with a massive amount of data including a full stack-trace and a list of all th
TypeScripted Knockout in ASP.NET MVC
(Sumit Maitra) We take a look at how to use TypeScript’s definitions for KnockoutJS to build a small ASP.NET MVC application. Along the way we explore the TypeScript language and gauge how it can be potentially used for build ASP.NET MVC applications that lean on the client side JS Libraries for ric
ABMR – Automatic Block Media Recovery
(Ora600Tom) ABMR is a cool feature; most of us know about it, so instead of talking about ABMR, want to share the issues I faced.
Understanding ADF Task Flow Page Flow Scope Lifetime
(Andrejus Baranovskis) I would say its a bit confusing to understand – how long objects stored in Page Flow Scope really reside in memory. This is a reason I implemented small sample application and did a test. Summary for the results (see detailed description below):
Backup to the Cloud: The Silver Lining
(Tony Davis) If you believe that offsite backup isn’t important, watch this clip from the Data Center Security Cam of the 09.09.09 flood at Vodafone Istanbul, Turkey. If you remain unconvinced, browse through Continuity Central (paraphrased extract):