(Mike Brind) Support for filters was added to Razor Pages with the release of ASP.NET Core 2.1. Filters, for those unfamiliar with them, are components that enable the injection of processing at certain points within the Razor Page lifecycle.
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Timeouts Only Apply To Last Future Thread, Not The Preceding Future Chain In ColdFusion 2018
(Ben Nadel) When I first read the Future documentation in ColdFusion 2018, it was very tempting to think that everything was asynchronous. But, as I demonstrated yesterday, the .then() and .error() Future methods are blocking, synchronous calls in the parent context.
Counting Array Entries in a Cosmos DB Document
(K. Scott Allen) I’ve been trying to figure out the most efficient approach to counting matches in a Cosmos DB array, without redesigning collections and documents.
Sending emails in Azure SQL Managed Instance
(Jovan Popovic) Azure SQL Database Managed Instance enables you to use most of the SQL Server features in fully managed cloud environment. One of the features is database mail system that enables you to send emails directly from Managed Instance.
Setting up NDB cluster connection pooling with MySQL Cluster Manager
(Thomas Nielsen) The new MySQL Cluster 7.6 GA supports NDB connection pooling – using multiple NDBAPI connections from a single mysqld to NDB – to allow increased concurrency and throughput.
The Good The Bad and The SLA
(blobeater) Lets just get straight to the point, Azure SQL Database across all service tiers gives you the customer a SLA of 99.99% up-time.
Backup a SQL database to a remote drive
(Jack Vamvas) Question: I’d like to backup a remote database and add a notification when it’s completed.
Db2 Performance: Tuning Db2 LUW Explains and db2advis, Part 1
(Scott) Would you like Db2 LUW Explains and db2advis.exe to run faster and more efficiently? If so, then this blog is for you! Explain and Db2Advis are applications just like any other, and their performance can be improved by adding indexes to EXPLAIN and ADVISE tables!
TechTip: A Primer to Bootstrap 4, Part 1
(Jan Jorgensen) You sit down in your office and fold your hands behind your neck. You are very pleased with yourself.
Deep Dive into JUnit 5 Extension Model
(Uday Tatiraju) JUnit, the most popular testing framework on the JVM was completely overhauled in its 5th major release. JUnit 5 is packed with rich features––from improved annotations, tagging, and filtering to conditional test execution and lazy evaluation of assertion messages.