(Ben Nadel) The older I get, the more zoomed-in my browser tends to become. I just don’t have the patience for small-text – I want my font-sizes to feel luxurious and decadent.
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Tech Job Report Gauges COVID-19 Impact: Desire for .NET, C# Skills Decreases
(David Ramel) Tech careers firm Dice’s latest job report attempts to gauge the early impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hiring. One finding of special interest to Visual Studio Magazine readers is less desire for .NET and C# skills.
Pretty Method Display in xUnit.net
(Jason Roberts) One little-known feature of the xUnit.net testing framework is the ability to write test method names in a specific way and then have them converted to a ‘pretty’ version for example in Visual Studio Test Explorer.
Will a BLOB eat all my memory?
(Connor McDonald) Probably the most common usage for large objects (CLOBs and BLOBs) is to store them in a database table.
sqlplus: error while loading shared libraries: libsqlplus.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
(Laurent Schneider) This error usually while you do something wrong. Wait, what’s an error when you do everything right?
Oracle WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 and Oracle WebLogic Monitoring Exporter
(Dirk Nachbar) As the latest release of Oracle WebLogic Server 14.1.1.0.0 is available (see my blogposts https://dirknachbar.blogspot.com/2020/03/oracle-weblogic-141100-available.html and https://dirknachbar.blogspot.com/2020/03/oracle-weblogic-141100-first-look.html), it’s time to test Oracle WebLo
Key Protect as vault for multi-cloud setup
(Henrik Loeser) In my previous blog post, I showed how you can easily encode and upload credentials to IBM Cloud Key Protect. Today, I am going to share sample code with you for retrieving the credentials and turning them back into a JSON object.
Build Advanced XML Reports with New XPath Debugger
(Erin Cavanaugh) Altova StyleVision is a unique, easy-to-use tool for creating business reports using a drag-and-drop visual design interface. StyleVision lets you build reports for XML as well as database and XBRL sources.
Audit Logons with Extended Events
(Jason Brimhall) Some time ago, I wrote an article for SQL Server 2008 to help determine the use of the server since SQL Server 2008 was reaching End Of Life.
SSIS Catalog Deployment to Support Dev, QA and Production
(John Miner) The development life cycle of an Extract, Translate and Load (ETL) process encompasses many phases. The Business Intelligence developer gathers the requirements from the business line and designs a package to transfer the data from point A to point B adhering to the time window that wa