(Baron Schwartz) This should sound familiar: One of the great lies about NoSQL databases is that they’re simple. Simplicity done wrong makes things a lot harder and more complicated to develop and operate. Programmers and operations staff end up reimplementing (badly) things the database should do.
Other News
A Java Program, a COBOL Program, and a DB2 Update – An Interesting Case Study
(Robert Catterall) Not long ago, an IBM colleague of mine who is a WebSphere Application Server (WAS) for z/OS specialist sent to me and to a few other IBMers (including some of our CICS and DB2 for z/OS developers) some information about an application scenario, and asked for our ideas and feedback
After Design Comes Testing
(Lockwood Lyon) Another essential task performed by the DBAs is preparing an environment for the application developers to perform load testing. This environment contains all tables, and if possible contains production-like data and data volumes.
WPF Shapes – Path – Grouped Geometry
(Richard Carr) The one hundred and twenty-fifth part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial continues to look at the Path shape and the available geometry options. This article looks at geometry groups.
Creating jqLite Plugins In AngularJS
(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, I looked at how jQuery is integrated with AngularJS and, what that means for developers who want to leverage jQuery within their AngularJS directives. This got me thinking about plugins. Many of us are used to writing jQuery plugins; but, what if we don’t want to include jQuer
ASP.NET vNext (MVC6) Ground Up #1 – Simplest possible thing
(ChadT) This series of posts is designed to bring you up to speed on the changes coming to ASP.NET and MVC6. We’re starting with getting the absolute simplest thing up and running and then going to continue layering features on top.
The for of Loop in ES6
(K. Scott Allen) In a previous post we looked at using iterators directly. Working with iterators at a low level will sometimes be useful, as we’ll see in future posts, but ES6 also provides a new looping syntax to work with iterators at a higher level – the for of loop.
Reports In SSISDB
(Chris Yates) I was approached with an in shop issue where a group could not view the execution reports in the SSISDB. The reason for this was due to the security standards in place at the shop; the user could not be allowed to have the SSIS_Admin role.
SQL Server Index Column Order
(Derik Hammer) At times I am in a position to advise development teams on their practices. What I have learned from this experience is that there is always a demand for me to reduce what I tell them to developer terms. Before the developers reading this go grab their torches and pitch forks, I am no
Windows Server Power Management Effect on SQL Server
(Simon Liew) I have a SQL Server 2012 installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition. The power plan of the Windows Server Operating System (OS) is left at its default power plan of Balanced.