(Blaise Doughan) GlassFish 4 is now available offering the complete Java EE 7 (JSR-342) platform. EclipseLink made some major contributions to this release. The first is providing the JPA 2.1 (JSR-338) implementation.
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Android to Windows 8: Parse XML data
(Adam) It’s more than likely that a Windows Store app will need to work with data that resides on the Internet. For example, an app may aggregate data from various news sources using RSS feeds.
APAR Friday: A couple of HIPERs and Red Alerts
(Willie Favero) Our first HIPER addresses an issue with RANK and DENSE-RANK and character data type returning an incorrect output. If you use either of these DB2 9 delivered functions, you will at a minimum want to check out APAR PM88703’s cover.
DB2 Locking, Part 10: Know Your ISOLATION Levels
(Craig S. Mullins) DB2 provides a way to change the way that a program or SQL statement acquires locks. That way is known as the isolation level and it can be set to specify the locking behavior for a transaction or statement.
SQL Server 2012 Discovery Report – Determining what SQL Server Components are Installed
(Samuel Lester) This continues to be one of the more frequently asked questions on the MSDN Forums and is important for many reasons, including patching, security, compatibility with other applications, network compliance, and even troubleshooting failed installs.
SQL Server 2014 hastens transaction processing
(Joab Jackson) The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems.
Validate File Extension in ASP.NET Using JavaScript
(Rohatash Kumar) This article shows how to validate a file extension in ASP.NET using JavaScript. In this article, we create a JavaScript function to ensure that only the specified extension is valid. All you need to do is implement and hook it up to your code. First of all you start Visual Studio .
The importance of keeping the SharePoint:DelegateControl TreeViewAndDataSource in your SharePoint 2010 Master Page
(Heather Waterman) Here is another gotcha when creating a custom master page. At times you might want to remove delegate controls that you are not using in a custom master page.
An introduction to InfoSphere Streams
(Sherif Sakr) Learn about InfoSphere Streams, part of the IBM big data platform. InfoSphere Streams addresses a crucial emerging need for platforms and architectures that can process vast amounts of generated streaming data in real time. Find out what the product is designed to do, when it can be us
Estimating MySQL’s Working Set with information_schema
(morgan tocker) In an earlier post, I wrote about when MySQL loads data in and out of cache. At the end of this post, I talked about the concept of page churn, and having enough memory for your working set: