(Michael Abbey) Over the past 8 months, I have had the pleasure of working on a soon-to-be-released update for our popular Beginner’s Guide for Oracle Database 12c. The publisher was looking for a “new brand” for this book, which has been published for Oracle 7, Oracle 8, Oracle 8i, Oracle 9, Databa
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Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Building tags
(Jimmy Bogard) In order to provide conventional HTML, you have to build on a solid foundation. Because most of the time I want to tweak my rules in C#, it’s important that I’m able to tweak the output of HTML programmatically. This is where ASP.NET and Fubu MVC start to diverge.
Optimizing Java Serialization – Java vs XML vs JSON vs Kryo vs POF
(James Sutherland) Perhaps I’m naive, but I always thought Java serialization must surely be the fastest and most efficient way to serialize Java objects into binary form. After all, Java is on it’s 7th major release, so this is not new technology, and since every JDK seems to be faster than the las
SSWUGtv: It’s important to do one brave thing a week at work – what is the bravest thing you’ve ever done?
Video Programming for IT Professionals Career management advice, coaching and much more. We discuss making the best of your professional development, provide specific tips and ideas for advancing your career and even answer questions from field.
Organizational structure in PureApplication System operations
(Kyle Brown, Rajeev Gandhi and Venkata (Vishy) Gadepalli) Adopting IBM PureApplication System will require changes to your IT organization, simply because many of the challenges that IT organizations typically spend a great deal of effort addressing either do not exist when you are using an Expert I
Introduction to the Dimension Processing Destination in SSIS 2012
(Dallas Snider) There are situations in SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) when rarely changing dimensions need additional values. Examples of these types of rarely changing dimensions are date and currency descriptions. These dimensions are typically not processed nightly and changes to the produc
Convert DataTable to XML, XSD and HTML
(pramodhegde88) Have you ever come across a scenario where you had to convert a DataTable to either and HTML or an XML?
Step-By-Step Test-Driven-Development with Visual Studio 2012: Part 1
(Mickey Gousset) There are various ways to build and test software. The specific process followed depends on a variety of factors, including the project itself, team members, project schedule and so on.
A look at Foreign Data Wrappers
(Craig Kerstiens) There are two particular sets of features that continue to keep me very excited about the momentum of Postgres. And while PostgreSQL has had some great momentum in the past few years these features may give it an entirely new pace all together.
SQL Server 2014 overview part 2: Availability and scalability features
(Robert Sheldon) Microsoft has extended availability of its database product with SQL Server 2014. As noted in the first part of this overview, the number of supported secondary replicas has increased from four to eight.