(Lucas Jellema) Primarily for my personal reference: this article provides instructions on running a Docker container image as a Kubernetes Deployment plus Service.
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How to Consume an ASP.NET webservice from Java via SOAP
(David S Hobbs) This article will be useful if you need to consume ASP.NET webservices from languages or platforms without .NET support.
Adaptive Joins and Join Hints
(Grant Fritchey) At a recent all-day seminar on query performance tuning I was asked a question that I didn’t know the answer to: “How do join hints affect adaptive joins?”
Auto-Scaling Azure SQL DB
(blobeater) When I was presenting my Azure SQL Database session at DataRelay (used to be SQLRelay) I was asked (over coffee) about auto scaling capabilities.
Guru: A More Efficient Way To Merge With SQL
(Mike Larsen) Lately, I’ve been using the merge statement in my programs to insert or update rows in a table. I recently came across a situation where a program using merge was running every few minutes and performing updates to thousands of rows each time it ran.
How to Get and Set CSS Variable Values with JavaScript
(David Walsh) CSS variables are a very welcome addition to the language, despite them being incredibly basic.
ASP.NET Core 2.1 Web API – Load App Configuration from appsettings.json, Dockerfile environment variables, Azure Key Vault Secrets and Kubernetes ConfigMaps/Secrets
(Atul.Verma) This article is second part of the series on Deploying Angular, ASP.NET Core and SQL Server on Linux to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster.
A Blazor Tip You Should Almost Certainly Ignore
(Peter Vogel) In another column, I describe how you can, from JavaScript, call methods on C# objects defined in Blazor pages. As that sentence implies, however, there’s no way to access properties on those objects … at least, no official, documented way.
Awesome MySQL Shell Prompt
(Jesper Krogh) A month ago, I wrote a blog on how you can configure the MySQL Shell prompt to suit your needs. One thing I did not go into details with are the prompt templates prompt_256pl.json and prompt_256pl+aw.json.
Oracle Cloud: upload large files through the Object Store REST API
(Franck Pachot) In the previous post I used a simple oci-curl() function as a Command Line Interface to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure without installing any client tool or language.