(Ember Crooks) The DB2 Administrative SQL Cookbook is a series of blog entries that are short. Each focuses on one or a few SQL statements that may be useful when administering DB2 databases.
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WPF Shapes – Path – Bézier Segments
(Richard Carr) The one hundred and twenty-ninth part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial continues to look at path geometry segment types. This article describes two types of Bézier curve segment.
Creating An HTML-Based Select Menu In AngularJS Using ngModel And ngModelController
(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, I took my first look at building custom input controls with ngModel and ngModelController in AngularJS. While it’s a two-way data binding mechanism at its core, the benefits of using ngModel appear to be many.
Creating Iterables In ECMAScript 6
(K. Scott Allen) Imagine you are building an abstraction for a classroom, and one responsibility of a classroom object is to encapsulate the names of the students in the classroom. You might build a class like the following.
Getting Started with Web Components
(Gil Fink) Web components standard although still in development, offers a revolutionary direction for building web applications front-end in Lego style. This article gives an overview of Web Components and the four HTML5 APIs that enables you to create your own components, with an example.
Keeping Up To Date
Are you keeping up with updates for your SQL Engine? I know this is not the easiest thing to do. It is difficult to find a time when the databases are not in use, or you invest a lot of money having failover systems allowing you to perform updates. Still, the risk of not applying service releases to your database […]
SSWUGtv: Today Laura Rose discusses, is it better to take a bad job with a good boss or a good job with a bad boss?
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Drilldown Hierarchical Data Using MVC and JQuery
(Pinakpani Dey) Microsoft’s Model-View-Controller with Razor View Engine and JQuery make drill-down hierarchal data very easy to develop for web application.
Adaptive plans and v$sql_plan and related views
(Martin Bach) Adaptive plans are one of the coolest new optimiser features in Oracle 12c. If you haven’t seen or heard about them in detail I recommend the following resources:
Monitor MySQL Performance Interactively With VividCortex
(Baron Schwartz) If you’re monitoring MySQL performance on dozens or hundreds of servers, chances are you have a “rainbow chart” – a time-series chart with hundreds of tiny area graphs stacked on top of each other, crawling imperceptibly one pixel at a time across the big-screen monitor in your offi