(Bobby Durrett) We have been discussing query tuning at work and I’ve come back to an example of the Oracle optimizer choosing the wrong plan due to an error in its calculation of the number of rows returned by a query. I want to show that it is easy and common to have queries that the optimizer ca
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RMAN using Substitution Variable
(mdinh) &1 = incremental level
Increasing the visibility of messages using WebSphere MQ Application Activity Trace
(Emma Bushby) This article describes the WebSphere MQ Application Activity Trace, a new feature in WebSphere MQ V7.1 on all distributed platforms. Until now it has been difficult for WebSphere MQ administrators to see what the applications connecting to queue managers are actually doing. Application
XML Parser Function in PHP: Part 5
(Sharad Gupta) In this article I describe the PHP XML Parser functions xml_set_end_namespace_decl_handler, xml_set_start_namespace_decl_handler, xml_set_processing_instruction_handler and xml_set_unparsed_entity_decl_handler.
Radio Buttons with AngularJS
(K. Scott Allen) Last week we looked at using ngOptions in AngularJS to build a select list. Since the selections are mutually exclusive, we could have done something similar using radio buttons. There is no directive dedicated to radio buttons, but here’s a couple examples to show how easy they are
Returning Images from ASP.NET Web API
(Bipin Joshi) Sometimes you need to save and retrieve image data in SQL Server as a part of Web API functionality. A common approach is to save images as physical image files on the web server and then store the image URL in a SQL Server database.
Understanding OWIN Forms authentication in MVC 5
(Hongye Sun) The new security feature design for MVC 5 is based on OWIN authentication middleware. The benefit for it is that security feature can be shared by other components that can be hosted on OWIN. Since the Katana team did a great effort to support the OWIN integrated pipeline in ASP.NET, it
Skipping Ahead to IBM DB2 10 for z/OS
(Cuneyt Goksu) The Social Security Institution (SSI) for the Republic of Turkey was established to provide Turkish citizens with equitable, easily accessible social and universal health insurance. The organization is responsible for implementing social security policy in accordance with national dev
Introduction to SQL, Part 5
(James Buck) An additional feature of the Run SQL Scripts interface is SQL Assist. This feature allows the user to create fairly sophisticated SQL statements with little or no knowledge of SQL. Although you should learn to write SQL statements without depending on a feature such as SQL Assist, this
Neural Network Activation Functions in C#
(James McCaffrey) Understanding neural network activation functions is essential whether you use an existing software tool to perform neural network analysis of data or write custom neural network code.