(Bryan Gardner) A thousand years ago I was at a technology conference, where I came upon a newfangled gizmo on exhibit called “Git”.
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Implement JWT Authentication In ASP.NET Core APIs
(Bipin Joshi) If you developed web applications using ASP.NET before, chances are you are already familiar with cookie authentication.
Using encodeForJavaScript() To Embed A JSON Payload As Configuration For A Single-Page Application in ColdFusion
(Ben Nadel) Five years ago, Sr. Security Engineer David Epler pointed out that my use of JsStringFormat() in conjunction with HtmlEditFormat() for encoding untrusted user-provided content could be more effectively done using the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Encoder.
Getting Approximate Count in Microsoft SQL Server
(Greg Larsen) With the introduction of SQL Server 2019, there is now a new, faster way to get a list of distinct values in a column.
Creating the Right Database Initializer for Entity Framework
(Peter Vogel) If you want to treat your database design as an ‘implementation detail’ that just falls out of getting your object model right, then Entity Framework gives you four choices. Picking the right one, however, may mean creating your own.
Amazon RDS Aurora Serverless – The Basics
(Peter Zaitsev) When I attended AWS Re:Invent 2018, I saw there was a lot of attention from both customers and the AWS team on Amazon RDS Aurora Serverless. So I decided to take a deeper look at this technology, and write a series of blog posts on this topic.
connection manager – what happens at startup & shutdown
(Martin Berger) Oracle Connection Manager (cman) is a great tool to create a gateway between networks which can not be connected, or filter those who can access to a service.
Finding the shortest path from Country A to Country B – using Neo4J and Node
(Lucas Jellema) Graph Databases are good at recording nodes and edges – and even more at performing queries that traverse the edges. Some challenges can be dealt with in Graph Databases far more elegantly and efficiently than for example in relational databases using traditional SQL.
Data Pump your Data to the Oracle Autonomous Database
(Jeff Smith) You have some data in an Oracle Database in your data center or laptop or docker or VirtualBox or…you get the idea.
Configure a Dedicated Network Adapter for SQL Server Always On Distributed Availability Groups Data Replication Traffic
(Edwin Sarmiento) We are exploring SQL Server Always On Distributed Availability Group as our disaster recovery (DR) strategy. We have multiple network connections to our DR data center and would like to utilize one of them specifically for the SQL Server Always On Availability Group data replicatio