(Brendan Tierney) With the release of the new Oracle 12c database and SQL Developer 4 we have a range of Oracle Data Miner new features . Some of these are embedded into the database and are only available in 12c. Check out my previous blog post on these new features.
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ADF BC 12c New Feature – Row Finder
(Andrejus Baranovskis) One of the new ADF BC features in ADF 12c – Row Finder. Row Finder acts as a helper for View Criteria to pass bind variable values and call query functionality. Important technical detail – instead of changing original rowset displayed on ADF UI, Row Finder creates and returns
IBM changes the CP to zIIP ratio for the zEC12 and zBC12 plus other zIIP news
(Willie Favero) There was something in the presentation of today’s announcements that showed up as no more than a sentence in a description of a slide. In fact, it’s not even in slides or in any of the announcement materials. However, the IBM web page related to it has been updated and it is a ch
ADF DVT: Sunburst to quickly inspect the hierarchical composition
(Lucas Jellema) The recent JDeveloper/ADF 11gR1 Patch Set 6 release introduced the Sunburst component, one of the many data visualization components in ADF. Sunburst (sometimes called Rings Chart) provides an attractive and useful way to quickly learn about the hierarchical build of certain values.
The SQL of Gaps and Islands in Sequences
(Dwain Camps) Some SQL problems are intriguing because, just when good methods emerge and are accepted, other alternative solutions are discovered. The fun of exploring problems such as ‘Gaps and Islands’ is all the greater when we have a thorough test-harness to try out the alternative solutions.
New MDX Divide() Function
(Chris Webb) A few weeks ago I saw Rob Collie’s blog post about the DAX Divide() function, and I was a bit surprised that I hadn’t seen it before. Then, yesterday, I found that the same function has appeared in MDX in SSAS 2012 Multidimensional. Here’s the entry in BOL:
DB2 for z/OS: Clearing Up Some Matters Pertaining to LOB Inlining
(Robert Catterall) Plenty of folks know that LOB inlining is one of the really great enhancements delivered with DB2 10 for z/OS (it’s something about which I blogged last year).
WdCalendar JSON Feed Via ASP.Net WCF Service
(Divesh Pal) wdCalendar is a jQuery based Google calendar clone. It is open source and easy to use.
To UNION or not to UNION…
(Shinguz) Recently a forum question [ 1 ] got my attention:
Converting ColdFusion Date/Time Values Into ISO 8601 Time Strings
(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, I was experimenting with a feature of Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) that allows users to upload files directly to S3 using a normal, client-side HTTP Form POST. As part of the request, you (as the server-side programmer) need to provide a policy that defines an expirati