(Michael Paquier) Managing wisely server resources has always been a critical matter for all kinds of systems. A lack of resource would mean a loss of performance and scalability for applications running on those infrastructures, blocking the potential growth of a service, while using too much resou
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Using Environment Variables in Coded UI Test with Visual Studio 2012
(Gouri Sohoni) Many a times, the recording of the Coded UI Tests can be done in a development environment. While running the application on production environment or in the testing environment, the path for executable can be different.
Oracle Database 12c: In-Database Archiving to deal with logically discarded records
(Lucas Jellema) When a record is no longer active – it is logically discarded – you may want to delete it. However, the record may still be required – for compliancy and auditing reasons for example. Or to produce incidental reports. So actually deleting it may not be an option. In the past I have u
An Introduction to Windows Azure BLOB Storage
(Mike Wood) Windows Azure BLOB storage service can be used to store and retrieve Binary Large Objects (BLOBs), or what are more commonly known as files. In this introduction to the Windows Azure BLOB Storage service we will cover the difference between the types of BLOBs you can store, how to get fi
Extended row size support in DB2: Fitting more data into a single row than the page size would typically allow (and sometimes it makes sense, but that is another story – stay tuned for user experience…)
(Henrik Loeser) One of the new features of the new DB2 10.5 release is the support for so-called extended row size. As you might have guessed from the article’s title, you can squeeze a lot of data into a single row now.
Creating Data Application in Visual Studio 2013 Preview
(Nimit Joshi) This article defines how to create a data application in Visual Studio 2013.
Crash-resistant replication: How to avoid MySQL replication errors
(Muhammad Irfan) Percona Serverfs gcrash-resistant replicationh feature is useful in versions 5.1 through 5.5. However, in Percona Server 5.6 itfs replaced with Oracle MySQL 5.6Œs gcrash safe replicationh feature, which has itfs own implementation (you can read more about it here).
FlowForce Server Supports RaptorXML
(DAVEMCG) Starting with the latest version launched on June 27, Altova FlowForce Server now supports RaptorXML Server and RaptorXML+XBRL Server.
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Test-Driven Development with TypeScript
(Peter Vogel) I’ll begin with an update to my last column: TypeScript is still beta software. The beta issue came up when Visual Studio stopped compiling my TypeScript files, and I switched to using the command-line compiler.