(Connor McDonald) Do a quick Google search and you’ll find plenty of blog posts about why GUIDs are superior to integers for a unique identifier, and of course, an equal number of posts about why integers are superior to GUIDs.
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Oracle’s LOCAL_TEMP_TABLESPACE
(David Fitzjarrell) New database versions are always interesting; default parameter values can change; new parameters can be introduced, and new settings can appear.
Build a Hierarchy Visualizer with JEEP, a New JavaScript Framework
(Vinay M S) JEEP is an ambitious framework intended to impart features to JavaScript that enables robust software engineering by bringing object orientation to JavaScript beyond what is available in the language natively.
Understanding the risk SQL injection vulnerabilities pose
(Kevin Beaver) What’s your situation with regard to web application SQL injection? Are you testing for it from all the right angles?
Special Islands
(Itzik Ben-Gan) Gaps and Islands tasks are classic querying challenges where you need to identify ranges of missing values and ranges of existing values in a sequence.
Turning Data into Insight with IBM Machine Learning for z/OS
(Samantha Buhler, Guanjun Cai, John Goodyear, Edrian Irizarry, Nora Kissari, Zhuo Ling, Nicholas Marion, Aleksandr Petrov, Junfei Shen, Wanting Wang, He Sheng Yang, Dai Yi, Xavier Yuen, and Hao Zhang) The exponential growth in data over the last decade coupled with a drastic drop in cost of storage
Effectively Sealed Classes in Java
(Grzegorz Piwowarek) Sealed classes are extremely helpful in class implementation in Java. Check out this post on using sealed classes and the Option class in Java.
Adding Close Buttons to Tab Pages with .NET
(Hannes DuPreez) Every now and then, an interesting question pops up on various developer forums, such as CodeGuru. These types of questions let you wonder why Microsoft didn’t include a certain feature in one of their controls.
CancellationTokens and Aborted ASP.NET Core Requests
(K. Scott Allen) When a client closes a connection during a long running web operation, it could be beneficial for some systems to take notice and stop work on creating the response.
C# Sharding and Multithreading – Deep Dive
(Jeffrey Rennie) Can database-style sharding improve the performance of a multi-threaded C# application? This tutorial talks about the performance bottlenecks in sophisticated C# concurrency operations and how sharding can solve these issues.