(morgan tocker) A friend wrote to me recently with a question. He was working on a method to ship application metrics to statsd on a 1 minute interval. He had three examples of how to estimate the number of rows in a table and he wanted to know the difference between them.
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Improve the SharePoint Breadcrumb Navigation
(Marc-André Bilodeau Lamontagne) The breadcrumb is the quickest way to know where you are in a site. It’s also the quickest way to navigate to a parent page. Unfortunately, in SharePoint 2010, the breadcrumb is only accessible by a popup in the ribbon.
Find Google PageRank of Web Page in ASP.NET
(Prabhakar Maurya) This article explains how to find the Google Page Rank of specific webpages in ASP.Net. Page Rank is an internal metric Google maintains that indicates how popular Google thinks a web page is. The value is calculated by how many websites link to that page, and how popular those we
Is There Anything Wrong with Being Complacent in Your Career?
Steve Wynkoop and I talk a lot about designing and managing our professional careers on a weekly interview on SSWUG.org. This episode was about how to handle assignments that are beneath your grade. This article goes into more detail.
What’s new in DB2 10.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
(Roman Melnyk, B.) This article outlines the key features and enhancements in IBM DB2 10.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. To be released in June, this latest version delivers a wide range of new function that directly addresses your business needs in the areas of cost reduction, application performan
Introduction to PostgreSQL arrays, basic concepts and normalization considerations
(Chris Travers) This is part of a two part series. The second will discuss indexing arrays which is a complex topic.
Use Code Maps to Understand Code Relationships
(Mickey Gousset) Maintaining a large code base is hard. Diving in and understanding an unfamiliar code base is even harder. But every developer has had to do this at some point in his career.
New DB2 Advanced Recovery Feature V10.5 for Linux, UNIX and Windows
(Anson) I think that you have all seen the various announcements and press around the new DB2 10.5 and all the various features and functions. I wanted to dive a little bit deeper on the DB2 Advanced Recovery Feature.
Entity Framework Code-First and Migrations in ASP.NET MVC
(Mahesh Sabnis) In multi-tier Line of Business applications, end user requirements change from time to time and this requires changes in the backend database.
SQL SERVER – DELETE From SELECT Statement – Using JOIN in DELETE Statement – Multiple Tables in DELETE Statement
(Pinal Dave) This blog post is inspired from my earlier blog post of UPDATE From SELECT Statement – Using JOIN in UPDATE Statement – Multiple Tables in Update Statement. In the blog post I discussed about how we can use JOIN and multiple tables in the UPDATE statement.