(Andrew Lock) In this post I describe the differences between various ASP.NET Core types that have been marked as obsolete in .NET Core 3.0.
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Use IHttpClientFactory To Invoke Web API In ASP.NET Core
(Bipin Joshi) If you have worked with ASP.NET Core Web APIs before, chances are you used HttpClient to invoke them. Although instantiating HttpClient directly is a common way of using it, there is a better alternative.
Tutorial: Get Comfortable with .NET Core and the CLI
(Jeremy) I’ve created a walkthrough to get started using .NET Core and the command-line interface (CLI). It’s available on GitHub:
Java 13: Enhancements to Switch Expressions
(Fahd Shariff) You may remember from my previous post that, in Java 12, the traditional switch statement was enhanced so that it could be used as an expression. In Java 13, there has been a further change to this feature.
Experience the power of big data with Apache Spark and Cloud Pak for Data
(Shikha Garg) Data is all around us. By 2020, IDC expects the entire store of data to be as large as 44 zettabytes, amounting to a single bit of data for every star in the physical universe.
Best Practices to Secure Your MySQL Databases
(Robert Agar) MySQL is one of the most popular database platforms in the world. It is widely used to power eCommerce sites and web applications that are essential components of many companies’ business strategies.
So Far So Good with Force Logging
(Bobby Durrett) I mentioned in my previous two posts that I had tried to figure out if it would be safe to turn on force logging on a production database that does a bunch of batch processing on the weekend: post1, post2.
Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) available
(spa) Oracle released the new Autonomous Health Framework since one week. It is very interesting to go through the list of new and changed features.
Exadata storage indexes
(Connor McDonald) We had a question on AskTOM inquiring about how to handle the issue of only 8 storage indexes being possible on an Exadata engineered system.
Compare SQL Server Results of Two Queries
(Jim Evans) You want to compare the results from two similar SQL Server T-SQL queries to see if the results are identical. Possibly, you have a complex query that returns many rows that you want to modify to simplify or optimize or for any other reason. You want to ensure the new result set is ident