(Hannes DuPreez) Hello, and welcome to the second installment of my Xamarin article series. Before you continue reading this article, I would advise you to come to grips with “An Introduction to Xamarin, Part 1: Setup” first, if you haven’t already read it.
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Accessing Configuration Settings in ASP.NET Core
(Peter Vogel) In ASP.NET Core, your web.config file with its section is gone. The replacement is a more extensive and configurable system that you can leverage to simplify configuring your objects.
ORA-30926 on MERGE statement
(Bobby Durrett) I was on call last week and I got a ticket about a batch job that was failing on a MERGE statement with an ORA-30926 error. Our support team worked around it by deleting some duplicate rows in a table that was feeding into the MERGE.
Automated Cell Maintenance
(Syed Jaffar Hussain) One of the key actives for a DBA is to well maintain the database servers and Oracle environments. In a complex Oracle environment, managing and maintaining file system space plays a very crucial role.
Oracle Linux 7 and a new YUM configuration since January 2019
(Martin Bach) For quite some time I used to have a configuration file /etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-ol7.repo managing my package sources in lab VMs. Today I noticed that this configuration file is deprecated, and has been replaced by a new model.
Working with AUTO_INCREMENT Columns in MySQL
(Rob Gravelle) Auto-increment allows a unique number to be generated automatically whenever a new record is inserted into a table.
SQL SERVER – Patch Failure – Unable to Retrieve the Cluster Service
(Pinal Dave) Few of my clients are still running older versions of SQL Server and they have their own reasons to not to move to the new SQL version. In this blog, we would learn about the fix of an error for which my client contacted me.
NLP-Samurai@0.0.10 Natural Language Processing Engine In Node.js, Angular 2 and MySQL
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SQL Server auditing best practices: 3 key questions for DBAs
(Lindsay Moore) A compliance audit can sometimes feel like a database administrator’s worst nightmare, but it doesn’t have to be. The key to acing a SQL Server database audit is preparedness; planning ahead and carefully monitoring the use of your data from the get-go can take some of the pain out o
Keeping Up with Azure Changes
(Melissa Coates) Since I started focusing primarily on Microsoft BI/DW/analytics around 2005, I’ve always been happy being a generalist within that space. Fast forward to around 2017 when I started focusing predominantly on Azure.