(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, I was trying to use the arrayContains() method introduced in ColdFusion 9. Unfortunately, it wasn’t working. Even when I double-checked all the values in play, arrayContains() kept telling me that a known value was not in the given array.
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Per Member Per Month Per 1000 Calculations in MDX
(Mike Davis) In a lot of industries there is a popular calculation called “Per Member Per Month Per 1000” calculation or the “Per Customer Per Month Per 1000” calculation. This is used to determine the level at which the company is rendering services compared to the number of company customers. This
Identifying Identity Columns Approaching Their Limit
(Shaun J Stuart) Back in December, a couple of checks I wrote were included in Brent Ozar Unlimited’s sp_Blitz script. I was chagrined to see that some people discovered some bugs in my code and submitted fixes.
Migrating SQL Server Databases – The DBA’s Checklist (Part 3)
(Sadequl Hussain) This is one area of SQL Server where people do not seem to take notice unless something goes wrong. Full-text functionality is a specialised area in database application development and is not usually implemented in your everyday OLTP systems.
Getting SignalR-Ready in Visual Studio 2010
(Rion Williams) As you probably know, the recent Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 Update (Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 includes this) made the process of creating SignalR applications much, much easier within Visual Studio 2012.
Announcing the release of AMQP support with Windows Azure Service Bus
(Scott Guthrie) For the past five years, Microsoft has been working with a diverse group of companies to develop the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard. The group of 20+ companies consisted of tech vendors, including Red Hat and VMware, and enterprises like JPMorgan Chase and Credit S
Zend 6 & Timezones
(Michael McLaughlin) Just went through all my PHP testing against a fresh instance of Oracle with Zend Server Community Edition 6, and found these warnings, guess that’s pretty clean for the Oracle part of the installation. I didn’t notice it before because generally I do most of my PHP development
Checking Oracle Directory Object Path Validity
(Neil Johnson) Bit of a mouthful that title. Today I was asked to check which, if any, directory objects had an invalid path. Normally this would be trivial but on the system I was on there were more than 90. So I knocked up a quick bit of SQL/KSH to do it for me and thought I’d share it here. […]
Using LDAP for Authentication and Authorization within APEX
(Roel Hartman) One of my current customers would like to use their LDAP (Microsoft Active Directory) server for authentication and authorization of APEX applications. Of course we tried to set up a standard LDAP Authenication that’s available within APEX. But we couldn’t get that to work.
A good workflow to smoothly import 2D content into Unity, Part II: Importing
(Brett Bibby) Recently I wrote about authoring your 2D content in Photoshop and then setting it up for exporting. Today’s post will cover importing the files into Unity. You can find a link to download all the files at the end of the post.