(James Serra) Read Scale-Out is a little-known feature that allows you to load balance Azure SQL Database read-only workloads using the capacity of read-only replicas, for free.
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High Availability and Disaster Recovery are expensive, until you need them
(Denny Cherry) If you work in IT, you probably heard about the disaster that Azure had last week with their South Central US (Texas) region. This outage has been a significant problem for a lot of customers, as well as to Microsoft.
Guru: Handling Constraint Violations In RPG
(Paul Tuohy) Constraints have been around for a long time but apparently have not quite made it into every programmer’s tool kit.
Writing Big JSON Files With Jackson
(Bozhidar Bozhanov) Sometimes you need to export a lot of data to JSON to a file. Maybe it’s “export all data to JSON”, or the GDPR “Right to portability”, where you effectively need to do the same.
Understanding ASP.NET Core Tag Helpers
(Debasis Saha) In the year 2008, Microsoft released the first version of MVC i.e. Model, View and Controller for the web programming framework. It was the one of biggest revolutionary released by the Microsoft in the recent past.
Saving A Future In An Intermediary Variable Breaks Error Handling In ColdFusion 2018
(Ben Nadel) A couple of days ago, I stumbled upon a “bug” in ColdFusion 2018 in which passing a Future though a proxy method breaks the error handling on that Future.
SQL SERVER – Error: 17300 – The Error is Printed in Terse Mode Because There was Error During Formatting
(Pinal Dave) One of my clients contacted me in a situation where their business was down! Their production SQL Server instance used by their Human Resource team was unable to start in a clustered environment.
Visual Studio Toolbox: Getting started with Windows IoT Episode #6
(Robert Green) In the final episode in this introduction series, Dmitry and Suz discuss how you can add a professional touch to your Windows IoT Core smart device prototype.
Asynchronous Replication Between MySQL Galera Clusters – Failover and Failback
(Ashraf Sharif) Galera Cluster enforces strong data consistency, where all nodes in the cluster are tightly coupled. Although network segmentation is supported, replication performance is still bound by two factors:
RMAN: Synchronize standby database using production archivelog
(mdinh) I know what you are thinking, “Why is this nut of a DBA writing shell script to synchronize standby with achivelog !”