(Pinal Dave) Some concepts are so good in SQL Server, they keep on coming back to me one way or another way. After reading my recent blog posts about DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS lots of people wanted to see the demonstration of the same.
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Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Examples
(Richard Lawrence and Paul Rayner) A look at how to explore the behavior of a new user story by collaborating around examples with a cross-functional team.
Exploiting JNDI Injections in Java
(Michael Stepankin) Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) is a Java API that allows clients to discover and look up data and objects via a name.
Sharing Data Between Organisations With Azure Data Share
(Chris Webb) If you’ve ever built a BI solution it’s likely you will have had to integrate third party data, and if that’s the case you will know how painful it often is to get your hands on that data.
Is it just me or does msdb feel a lot like a user database?
(Kenneth Fisher) When you think of system databases, tables, etc there are a number of things you might think of.
Optional Chaining
(David Walsh) For all of the improvements that the JavaScript language has added over the past few years, like the spread operator, default argument values, and arrow functions, there are still a few features I’d love to see implemented.
Writing and Testing Azure Functions with Function Monkey – Part 5 (Authorization)
(James) Part 5 of my series on writing Azure Functions with Function Monkey is now available on YouTube:
How to Update Members of a Collection with LINQ
(Peter Vogel) Sometimes it’s just cool to take a walk through some technology to find all the different ways you can solve a problem — sort of “Fun with the .NET Framework.”
Using The String localeCompare() Method To Implement A Natural Sort In Angular 8.2.0-next.0
(Ben Nadel) The other day, while exploring the Fat-Arrow function support in Lucee 5.3, I used the compare() function to implement a .sort() operation.
MySQL Group Replication
(Keith Larson) So MySQL’s group replication came out with MySQL 5.7. Now that is has been out a little while people are starting to ask more about it.