(Troy L Coleman) DB2 11 introduced a feature to help identify missing or conflicting statistics that can help the optimizer choose a more efficient access path. I wrote about this feature here, however, I’ve since learned that two DB2 subsystem parameters can be used to reduce the amount of informat
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Database Flashback — 5
(Hemant K Chitale) Here I demonstrate that Flashback Logs alone are not sufficient. The process of FLASHBACK DATABASE does need *some* redo entries from Archive/Online Redo Logs.
CSS3 elements of style sheet in HTML 5
(Vivek Ramapuram) CSS3 is a module based development where new features, improvements are being added in modules for easy implementation, acceptability of its features.
The Big Data DBA — Process Automation
(Lockwood Lyon) A big data implementation will make additional demands on the DBA’s time, including required education and training, support of new analytics users, and management of new hardware and software.
Introducing Glyphfriend
(Rion Williams) During the Microsoft MVP Summit in November of this year, Mads Kristensen held a session on Visual Studio Extensibility and walked through the process of creating extensions for Visual Studio that can do all sorts of things and make the lives of developers easier.
ASP.NET Web Api: Understanding OWIN/Katana Authentication/Authorization Part II: Models and Persistence
(John Atten) In the previous post in this series we learned how the most basic authentication and authorization elements fit together in an OWIN-based Web Api application. We have seen how to authenticate a user using an Authentication Server embedded within our application, and how to add an elemen
ASP.NET Identity 2.1 implementation for MySQL
(Radenko Zec) In this blog post I will try to cover how to use a custom ASP.NET identity provider for MySQL I have created.
Using jspm with Visual Studio 2015 and ASP.NET 5
(K. Scott Allen) If you’ve been following along with the developments for ASP.NET vNext and Visual Studio 2015, you’ve probably seen the JavaScript tooling of choice for File –> New projects is Grunt and Bower.
ASP.NET MVC: Self Validating Model objects
(Mahesh Sabnis) ASP.NET MVC supports the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle where you specify the behavior once and it reflects at multiple places in the application.
Wait and Compare Database Change
Every time I am involved in a project where database changes are packaged and scripted as some event such as Systems Integration Testing or User Acceptance Testing begins, I am reminded of pitfalls inherent in this strategy. Changes that have been made in an individual sandbox (if there are any) or in a development environment, are often missed or forgotten, […]