(Hannes DuPreez) I have always had a fascination with screen display settings. Well, I like to play with a computer’s display and all the options in code.
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SQL SERVER – Finding User Who Dropped Database Table
(Pinal Dave) Though I mainly focus on SQL Server Performance Tuning as my primary consulting engagement, there are moments when I am asked questions from my regular clients which are not related to SQL Server Performance and they still expect me to answer.
Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Web APIs Part 3
(Robert Green) This is the last of a three part series where I am joined by Chris Woodruff who shows how to build ASP.NET Core Web APIs. In this episode, Chris goes deep into what developers should know when building real-world APIs.
Auto-Refreshing Reports in MySQL Shell
(Jesper Krogh) MySQL Shell makes it easy to develop tools you can use for example to generate reports. In a previous blog, I showed how to use external modules in MySQL Shell.
How to correctly calculate the Request Units in Azure Cosmos DB
(Ricardo Niepel) The cost of all Azure Cosmos DB database operations is normalized and expressed in terms of Request Units (RUs). RU/s is a rate-based currency, which abstracts the system resources such as CPU, IOPS, and memory that are required.
Db2 for z/OS JSON SQL APIs and Native REST Services
(Jane Man) In the recent customers’ conference calls, a lot of customers are confused about Db2 for z/OS JSON capability and Native REST services.
Functional Java by Example | Part 5 – Move I/O to the Outside
(Ted Vinke) This is part 5 of the series called “Functional Java by Example”.
WCF Exception Handling Tutorial and Best Practices
(Peter Morlion) WCF, or Windows Communication Foundation, was the technology to use in a .NET-focused service-oriented architecture (SOA) in the second half of the 2000’s. Its SOAP approach may have been surpassed by REST principles, but there are still many WCF services out there.
Host Bindings Don’t Prevent Default Event Behavior Until After All Event Handlers Have Executed In Angular 7.1.1
(Ben Nadel) The title of this post may be a little bit misleading – this post is about an event-binding caveat on Angular elements, so the details don’t all fit nicely into a one-line summary.
Azure Data Explorer Functions and Control Commands
(Ben Martens) The first is the ability to define functions. Ad-hoc investigations are regularly performed with straight queries, but anytime we create something useful and/or want to share with others, we create a function.