(Richard Carr) Parallel.Invoke can be used to launch several tasks that may execute in parallel. Depending upon the functionality of the tasks and their use of resources, it can be beneficial to limit the parallelism to a fixed number of concurrent tasks.
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Auditing with Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 – Part 1
(Sadequl Hussain) Auditing and inventorying is not something new in any IT environment. Depending on the purpose, it can take many forms. Sometimes the auditing is about security and data access. Sometimes it is about software usage and licensing. Often it is about consolidation and cost saving.
Doing It Wrong: Virtualizing SQL Server
(Thomas LaRock) I’ve been involved in a virtualization projects for almost ten years now. In that time I’ve had the opportunity to track my own list of “best practice” items. It’s a list I share freely with clients and customers that seek me out for virtualization advice.
Technical standards in education, Part 5: Take advantage of metadata
(R. John Robertson) Metadata provides key information about resources to support their management and discovery. Educational metadata is a specific type of metadata for describing the educational use of a resource. This article gives an overview of metadata, illustrates its basic concepts, and discu
How to Load Oracle Tables From Hadoop Tutorial (Part 1 – Overview)
(Bob Hanckel) This is the first of a series of blog posts that will discuss how to load data living in the Hadoop Ecosphere into Oracle tables. The goal is to give insights, discuss pros and cons, and best practices for achieving optimal load times and flexibility from an experienced developer’s poi
Storage Indexes vs Database Indexes IV: 8 Column Limit (Eight Line Poem)
(Richard Foote) As Exadata Storage Indexes (SI) are purely memory only structures located on the Exadata storage servers, care needs to be taken in how much memory they can potentially consume. As a result, there is a limit of 8 columns (or 8 SIs) that can be defined for a given 1M storage region at
ITL Deadlocks (script)
(Christian Antognini) A reader of this blog, VijayS, asked me to share the script I use to demo ITL deadlocks that I mentioned in this comment. Since other readers might be interested, here is the script.
Make MySQL clustering work for you
(Sean Hull) We’ve told you all about MySQL mult-master replication’s limitations. If you write to two masters it is bound to fail for myriad reasons.
The TSQL Classes Stored Procedures: Error Handling
(Ahmad Osama) In this class I will talk about ways to handle error in a stored procedure.
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