(Manish Sharma) Java Stream API provides several methods, including reduction and terminal functions, which also support parallelization. In this post, we will cover the Java stream reduce method and its different operations.
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Using Azure Service Bus with restricted access
(damienbod) Azure Service Bus provides many ways to setup different access levels for all types of things like the bus itself, queues, topics or subscriptions. In this post some of the ways to configure the different access levels for a queue sender will be shown.
Replacing Transparent Image Backgrounds With GraphicsMagick And Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31
(Ben Nadel) At InVision, one of the things that we do when generating thumbnails is replacing transparent image backgrounds with a solid color (typically white). We do this because the design of the page that renders thumbnails is almost never designed to expect any image transparency.
‘Docker for Visual Studio Code’ Tool Generally Available in Version 1.0
(David Ramel) Microsoft shipped version 1.0 of the extension for Visual Studio Code used to build applications that use Docker containers, adding support for an experimental Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) engine among a slew of new features.
A must-know about NOT IN in SQL – more antijoin optimization
(Guilhem Bichot) I will try to make it short and clear: if you are writing SQL queries with “NOT IN” like SELECT … WHERE x NOT IN (SELECT y FROM …) you have to be sure to first understand what happens when “x” or “y” are NULL: it might not be what you want! And if it is not, I […]
Building SQL Server Indexes in Ascending vs Descending Order
(Greg Robidoux) When building indexes, often the default options are used to create an index which creates the index in ascending order. This is usually the most logical way of creating an index, so the newest data or smallest value is at the top and the oldest or biggest value is at the end.
DayPilot – AJAX Monthly Event Calendar for ASP.NET MVC in 10 Minutes
(Dan Letecky) The open-source DayPilot Lite for ASP.NET MVC 1.3 introduces an AJAX monthly event calendar. In this post, we will see how to setup the project, create a new ASP.NET MVC view and controller, how to load the calendar, drag and drop calendar event moving, CSS themes and event customizati
Tips for using Snapshot Replication in SQL Server 2019 (Part 1)
Tips for using Snapshot Replication in SQL Server 2019 (Part 1) Snapshot replication is a simplest type of replication. With this kind of replication, all replicated data (replica) will be copied from the Publisher database to Subscriber/Subscribers database on a periodic basis. Snapshot replication is best used as a method for replicating data that modified infrequently and when the size...
AI-powered Search with spaCy – Part 11
In this part, we’ll look at how you might intelligently reduce the sentence when preparing a phrase for a search from it. In particular, you’ll see how to reduce the sentences containing an adverbial clause modifier or an open clausal complement. Say, you have the following sentence as an input: ‘I talked to him to secure the account.’ In this...
Adding Your Own Messages To Power Query Query Diagnostics
(Chris Webb) A quick point: while the Power Query Query Diagnostics functionality is relatively new, it’s based on Power BI/Power Query trace logging that has been around for a while. I’ve just realised that this means you can use the Diagnostics.Trace M function that I blogged about back in 2016 to
