(Melissa Coates) This is a quick post to share something that happened on a project recently. We began to experience some intermittent issues with Azure Data Factory (V1) and it was ultimately related to an out-of-date AzureRM PowerShell module.
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Getting to Know Graal, the New Java JIT Compiler
(Ben Evans) Oracle’s implementation of Java is based on the open-source OpenJDK project, and that includes the HotSpot virtual machine, which has been around since Java 1.3.
Web Assembly and Blazor: Re-assembling the Web
(Rick Strahl) The Web has been powered by a single language on the client since the very beginnings of the Web as a platform. JavaScript started as an overly simplified scripting language in the first Netscape browsers and slowly evolved over the years to become what is now the most widely used prog
Checking To See If An Element Has A CSS Pseudo-Class In JavaScript
(Ben Nadel) This morning, I sat down to see if I could detect “autofill” behaviors in the browser. In doing so, I came across several StackOverflow posts that mentioned a “:-webkit-autofill” pseudo-class getting applied to inputs in WebKit-based browsers.
Scaling Our Private Portals with Open edX and Docker
(Luiz Aoqui) Ever since we launched, Cognitive Class has hit many milestones. From name changes (raise your hand if you remember DB2 University) to our 1,000,000th learner, we’ve been through a lot.
Eliminate Code and Add Functionality with Fody Attributes
(Peter Vogel) Fody is such a cool NuGet package that it’s a shame it’s only been mentioned on this site once and in passing. Fody handles the problem you have all the time: crosscutting concerns. A crosscutting concern is something that happens in many places in your application but not in every pla
Introducing U-SQL database projects – U-SQL database development and deployment made easy (public preview)
(Yanan Cai) Today we are pleased to introduce the U-SQL database project, a new project type in Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio (ADL Tools for VS) that accelerates U-SQL database development, management and deployment.
Geographic Spatial Reference Systems in MySQL 8.0
(Norvald H. Ryeng) MySQL 8.0.11 comes with a catalog of 5108 spatial reference system (SRS) definitions, and 479 of these are geographic. We usually just refer to them by SRID, but in this blog post we’ll dive into the details and try to understand the definition itself.
Upgrade and Patch Application in Application Container
(Jagruti Jasleniya) In previous article we have seen Installing Application and Synchronizing it with Application PDB.
Split a string again and again
(stewashton) I recently needed to gather multiple columns from multiple rows into one string, then split them out again. JSON_TABLE did both splits at the same time!