(Bipin Joshi) If you are keeping an eye on the progress and future direction of .NET you might be aware that somewhere in May 2019 Microsoft announced that the next major release after .NET Core 3.0 will be .NET 5. And just a few days ago they announced the availability of .NET 5 Preview 1.
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Pixelating An Image Using GraphicsMagick And Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31
(Ben Nadel) The other day, while searching for some GraphicsMagick information, I came across a Stack Overflow post that was discussing an approach to pixelating part of an image.
Deploy MySQL InnoDB Cluster in OCI with Terraform
(Frederic Descamps) As you know, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (aka OCI) becomes more and more popular. You can find OCI data centers almost everywhere and the price is very attractive.
SQL Server UPDATE lock and UPDLOCK Table Hints
(Sergey Gigoyan) In SQL Server databases with actively running transactions, it is a common situation when more than one transaction tries to modify the same data simultaneously. In such instances, SQL Server deadlocks are often quite possible, which can be a real issue in terms of performance.
How to Check Password Strength Meter in Angular 8
(Siddharth Gajbhiye) In most applications, there is a field while registering to enter a valid password that should contain at least one digit, one number and one special symbol.
PART III: Overview of Normalization
Fifth Normal Form (5NF) If a relation is in 4NF as well as does not contain any join dependency as well as joining is lossless then the relation is in 5th normal form. When the tables are broken into as many tables as possible in order to avoid redundancy then it can be said that 5NF is satisfied. 5th Normal...
Collation Conflict with Extended Events
(Jason Brimhall) Have you ever run into an error like this? Cannot resolve the collation conflict between “pick a collation” and “pick another collation” in the equal to operation.
Change the size of the grid results view in SSMS
(Kenneth Fisher) After my post last month about configuring your tools I’ve been on a make my life easier kick and one of the things that gives me grief every day is that my eyesight is at best mediocre and some days it’s worse than others.
12.2.0.1 vs. 18.9 Data Dictionary Changes
(Liron Amitzi) In this post I’ll compare the Data Dictionary tables and columns between 12.2.0.1 and 18.9.
network ip calculation with ifconfig
(Laurent Schneider) Most *nix are different. I’ll start with a plain Linux output
