(Mohammed Moinudheen) We heard in the news about disruptions to Azure services in certain global locations. Recently, there was news reported regarding a cloud service outage in a Microsoft US data center location. Is it possible to get information about any Azure service issues that may be affectin
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ASP.NET MVC 5 – Customizing Pie Chart Using JavaScript C3 Chart Library
(Gnanavel Sekar) In this article, I will explain different ways of customization for a pie chart using the C3 Chart JavaScript library.
Using Function.ScalarVector() To Optimise Calls To M Functions
(Chris Webb) One of the most common issues faced when calling web services in M is that the the easiest way of doing so – creating a function that calls the web service, then calling the function once per row in a table using the Invoke Custom Function button – is very inefficient.
Quantum Computing Will Put Your Data at Risk
(Thomas LaRock) “Too many secrets.” – Martin Bishop One of the pivotal moments in the movie Sneakers is when Martin Bishop realizes that they have a device that can break any encryption methodology in the world.
Introduction to Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
(Marcin Policht) Since its inception, the Azure SQL Database offering has been evolving in order to accommodate a wide range of needs of its customers.
IBM Cloud: The 5 minute barebone news chatbot
(Henrik Loeser) Do you have 5 minutes and want to build a really simple news chatbot? I tried this yesterday with IBM Cloud and the Watson Assistant and Discovery services.
Java 12 could ax raw string literals
(Paul Krill) Java Development Kit (JDK) 12 soon could be minus one feature that had been targeted for the release: a beta version of raw string literals.
Token Based Authentication in ASP.NET Web API
(Gowtham K) ASP.NET Web API is a service which can be accessed over the HTTP by any client. So, providing the security to the Web API is very important, which can be easily done with the process called Token based authentication.
SQL SERVER – Optimize Key Lookup by Creating Index with Include Columns
(Pinal Dave) I love query tuning and performance tuning projects. In one of the recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check my client had a very interesting scenario where their queries were running pretty fast earlier but gradually started to run slow and eventually started to take over
How to install Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows 10
(Luís Henrique Demetrio) Yes, believe it or not, there are a lot of companies that still developing or supporting applications developed in Visual Basic 6.0.