(Richard Foote) As I discussed previously in Part I, the space occupied by orphaned row entries associated with asynchronously maintained global indexes is not automatically reclaimed by subsequent DML operations within the index. Hence the need to clean out these orphaned index entries via the vari
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DB2 BLU: Some additional metadata, the synopsis table, and page map indexes
(Henrik Loeser) Today I continue my journey into the metadata of DB2 with BLU Acceleration which I recently started. I had created a table and looked at the catalog and found a synopsis table.
WPF 4.5: Using Live Shaping
(Mahesh Sabnis) Using Live Shaping in WPF 4.5, Views can be automatically updated when the collection is changed or in fact, when values in the collection are changed. We will explore this useful feature with an example.
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Visual Studio Tip: Extend Your Most Recently Used List
(Peter Vogel) The most recently used (MRU) lists on Visual Studio’s menu list the last 10 projects (or files) that you worked on. However, I’m sometimes working on multiple projects for multiple clients simultaneously (please don’t tell them: each one thinks they’re exclusive). As a result, I have m
Deploy and explore the DB2 10 pureScale Feature on WebSphere Application Server V8
(Yiying Zhang, Fran Beaulne, Mei-hsiang Chang and Aslam Nomani) The IBM DB2 pureScale Feature is designed for continuous availability and tolerance of both planned maintenance and unplanned accidental component failure. DB2 pureScale is a separately priced feature for both IBM DB2 Enterprise Server
jQuery Autocomplete Getting Data From Database in ASP.Net
(Sanjeeb Lenka) This article describes how to add an Auto Complete feature to a text box and get the data from a database in ASP.Net using a jQuery UI .
The Bravest Thing We Have Ever Done At Work
In previous articles, Steve and I encourage everyone to do at least one scary thing a week. It is a very positive way to propel one forward and helps us get out of our own way at time. Today we each share one of “The Bravest Thing We’ve Ever Done At Work”
SQL SERVER – Disk Space Monitoring – Detecting Low Disk Space on Server
(Pinal Dave) A very common question I often receive is how to detect if the disk space is running low on SQL Server.
Unexplained (trivial) MySQL behavior
(Ronald Bradford) The -N or –skip-column-names is a convenient option with the mysql client to skip the header line of output.

