(Edwin Sarmiento) I wanted to know if my databases are really in FULL recovery model. I’ve heard about this recovery model called pseudo-simple where the database still behaves like it is still in SIMPLE recovery model until a full database backup is taken. How do I know if my databases are really i
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SharePoint and the Perils of InfoPath
(Ellen van Aken) Our Business Solutions team has not used InfoPath very often. It is really a very cool tool, and I love its transparency, but people often experienced an access denied or other annoying error message that prevented them from working with it.
WPF Base Classes – DispatcherObject
(Richard Carr) The eighteenth part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial describes the DispatcherObject class, which is a base class for all of the WPF controls. This class can be used to correctly access control properties from parallel code.
SQL SERVER – Difference Between DBMS and RDBMS
(Pinal Dave) A DBMS has to be persistent, that is it should be accessible when the program created the data ceases to exist or even the application that created the data restarted. A DBMS also has to provide some uniform methods independent of a specific application for accessing the information tha
The overhead of async/await in NET 4.5
(Chris Hurley) The support for asynchronous operation in .NET 4.5 has made it much easier to create easily-intelligible asynchronous methods that avoid blocking. However, asynch/wait isn’t cost-free in terms of CPU overhead. How best to judge when to use it?
Infinite Scrolling Using ASP.NET Web API Data Service and KnockoutJS
(Suprotim Agarwal) The most common requirement for a line of business application is to represent data in pages. Usually this involves showing data in a grid and showing a navigate pane with either page numbers or Next/Previous button (or both) to navigate to multiple pages. This works fine in most
Conditionally Exiting Out Of A CFThread Tag In ColdFusion
(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, I was reviewing some code with Josh Siok. The code implemented an asynchronous task executing inside of a CFThread tag in ColdFusion 9.0.1. We had to add some code that would, under certain circumstances, prematurely exit out of the CFThread execution. But, I realized that I h
Create a Simple Autocomplete With HTML5 & jQuery
(Jake Rocheleau) A quick Google search will yield plenty of handy autocomplete plugins — there’s even an option shared by jQuery UI which comes bundled with the library. However today I want to look into an alternative solution. The jQuery Autocomplete plugin released by DevBridge has the exact func
DB2 Locking, Part 14: Using the LOCK TABLE Statement
(Craig S. Mullins) We continue the series on DB2 locking today with a look at the SQL statement: LOCK TABLE .
SQLCMD –Quick Copy of Files – Using Robocopy
(Prashanth Jayaram) The requirement is to move the files to different server programatically and hence I’ve decided to use Robocopy in SQLCMD.