(Pinal Dave) This is one of the toughest topics to address, and I am always looking at new tools that can help me learn and understand SQL Server better. In many cases, I fall back to MSDN documentation and official statements from the Microsoft site because a lot of R&D generally has been done by t
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Database Flashback — 3
(Hemant K Chitale) Continuing my series on Oracle Database Flashback
The Big Data DBA
(Lockwood Lyon) Many IT enterprises are starting pilot projects to implement big data solutions. As a DBA, are you ready to support these efforts, and integrate them into your current architecture, processes, and standards?
XElement Refresher
(Peter Shaw) In this day and age of JSON data everywhere, a lot of developers are leaving XML behind. There are, however, still some areas where XML is still used quite heavily; web and application configuration files are a start. There are also many financial institutions that still do pretty much
Realtime Voting App with ASP.NET SignalR, React.js and D3.js
(Brij Mohan Dammani) This tutorial shows how to build a survey or voting app that displays poll results in real-time using ASP.NET SignalR, React.js and D3.js.
Continuous integration with visualstudio.com and TFS
(Jalpesh Vadgama) As a developer, we all are using some kind of source control provider to maintain versions of our source code. But another aspects of source control to is to make sure that code committed in source code repositories are perfect and it will not break the build of particular softwa
ASP.NET MVC Caching with OutputCache
(Khalid Abuhakmeh) We’ve all been to that site that just takes forever to load. It could be a slew of issues compounding to ultimately give you a bad user experience.
Fun with ASP.NET 5, Linux & Docker
(Mark Rendle) With all the excitement around Docker in Azure (and Windows Server 10!), I decided it was time to find out what all the fuss was about. My earliest forays were attempted using Vagrant on Windows, which creates Linux VMs using VirtualBox, but that was pretty painful.
Automating web hosting creation in Azure with PowerShell
(Troy Hunt) Here’s your situation: you’ve got a heap of websites on traditional hosting models. Shared tenancies on single logical machines, dedicated infrastructure or even worse, not really any idea because you just keep paying that $5 per month and stuff works. Most of the time.
The Future of the OLTP Developer
Much of the energy from the Microsoft team for database services has been targeted toward the BI solutions since 2008. We’ve seen things such as PowerPivot, data warehouse appliances, Column Stores and much more. Recently we have been seeing some powerful performance enhancements in the SQL database engine as well with in memory tables, and column store indexes. Still, it […]