(kiran babu) When building web applications or interactive widgets, it’s often necessary to position an element relative to something else. As a few examples, an autocomplete suggestion list may appear below the text field the user is typing into, a dialog may appear centered within the window, and
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Tricky issue with HTML5 drag and drop
(Bipin Joshi) Recently a reader asked about a tricky issue with HTML5 drag and drop. The issue is this:
ADF Mobile – Deploying to Android fails with ‘Cannot find program … aapt’
(Chris Muir) There’s an old saying, if things don’t change, they often stay the same.
Big Data: Big Lies, Big Damn Lies and Statistics
(Dave Beulke) Setting up the correct metrics is vital for measuring anything. Mean, median and a variety of other complex formulas are being used for an assortment of purposes in Big Data projects. The heart of the issue is whether these complex formulas correctly convey correct measurements for t
High Performance Tuning Tools
(The Oracle Alchemist) No matter how much time goes by I still remember it. The day my database was crippled beyond reckoning. That moment when I saw my hopes for a bright and shining future with my database spill through my fingers like so many cracker crumbs falling on a clean and well pressed pai
ODA re-imaging could take anything between 20 and 120 mins
(Yury Velikanov) Recently I have noticed that re-imaging process on the second Oracle Database Appliance node took significantly shorter time comparing with the first node.
SQL Server bug: Incorrect values in sys.dm_db_session_space_usage for deferred drops
(Vicky Harp) For the past few months I have been chasing down an issue which has been plaguing my attempts at tempdb monitoring, and in just the last week I’ve received news that it is indeed a confirmed bug in SQL Server. I’m sharing what I’ve found here for the benefit of the SQL community.
Unit Testing SQL Server, ADO.NET and Entity Framework
(Andrew den Hertog) For many data-centric applications, the most important component to test is the database. This is especially the case when the database contains business or calculation logic that’s used in conjunction with your application layer.
XmlSerialization – why two runtime behaviour for class with read-only properties?
(L. Mar) Following on from the previous blog post, and just to recap, there are at least two ways to write a class with read only property.
The DB2Night Show z36: ‘Agile Big Data Analytics’
(Martin) 92% of our studio audience learned something! Dave presented his experiences on implementing a time-constrainted project to implement a 22-billion row data warehouse.