(Joydip Kanjilal) Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is used to build, deploy and execute connected systems. WCF provides a secure, reliable, scalable messaging framework that can work over any protocol in any network.
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How to use a more recent version of jQuery in Drupal (without jQuery Update)
(Chip Cullen) There are many things that I love about Drupal, but they way it incorporates jQuery is not one of them. Drupal 7 core comes with, and is tied to, a particular version of jQuery – 1.4.4. That came out in November of 2010. Since then, from a jQuery perspective, Drupal has been frozen in
A Dynamic Duo: Data Compression and Backup Compression
(Bob Pusateri) When I’m presenting on SQL Server data compression, I frequently get asked if data compression and backup compression can be used together. I keep meaning to put together a blog post with a demo so I have something to direct people towards for further reading. So here we are – let’s g
Deploying and managing scalable web services with Flume
(Zafar Gilani) Machine-generated log data is valuable in locating causes of various hardware and software failures. The information derived from it can provide feedback in improving system architecture, reducing system degradation, and improving up-time. Recently, businesses have started using this
Caching data with materialized views and statement level triggers
(Leo Hsu and Regina Obe) One exciting new feature coming in PostgreSQL 9.3 is materialized views. Materialized views is really a mechanism for caching data of a query. It is especially useful if you have long running queries where the answers change infreqently. There are many things unfortunately t
Big Data: Four Ways to Identify Domains Areas for Analysis
(Dave Beulke) The last two weeks I talked about evaluating reporting tools, the different tools criteria categories, and determining the particular important sub topics that are unique to your company. This week we are going to talk about the Big Data itself, and four ways to determine the best area
Summary Reporting on AWR Data 1
(John Brady) The addition of the Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) in Oracle 10g was a good thing, as its regular hourly snapshots collect and store a number of database wide activity statistics which allows historical reporting later on. However, the Oracle supplied standard AWR report (awrrpt) o
DB2 10.5 and BLU Acceleration
(Chris Eaton) It’s been quite some time since I have written regular blogs here. I have taken the last year and a half off from blogging regularly but after doing it for 8 years (I started when blogging wasn’t really a popular thing to do) I figure it was ok to take a bit of a break.
Multiple Choice Support in ADF BC View Criteria
(Andrejus Baranovskis) It happened to see while reviewing ADF projects people are using complex implementation to allow search on multiple values.
SQL Server: Always have a backup plan
(Saleem Hakani) In an ideal world, hard drives and other hardware would never fail. Software would never be defective, users wouldn’t make mistakes and hackers would never be successful.