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Increasing Dot Net Code Performance
Recently I have been thinking about different things I have done to optimize Dot Net code over the last few years and trying to come up with some of the top performers. Here are two big performance optimizations. Materialize Dot Net Linq expressions. When you perform Linq expressions resulting in values that will be enumerated (pretty much anytime) be sure […]
Gearing up your Business for data analytics – Part V
Gearing up Your Business for Data Analytics – Part V In the previous articles we were looked at data requirements and data use at arm’s length. In this article we take a more granular approach to the analysis of data. We look at the quality of data with reference to any requirement questions that may have been raised by the...
Do you know how DATES work in Tableau? Understanding Continuous vs Discrete Dates
(Donabel Santos) Do you know how dates work in Tableau? It could be tricky, but once you get a handle on it, it can make your Tableau life much simpler. The first step to understanding dates in Tableau is understanding the concept of discrete and continuous first.
Geek City: Creating New Tools for Statistics
(Kalen Delaney) I was just starting to work on a post on column statistics, using one of my favorite metadata functions: sys.dm_db_stats_properties(), when I realized something was missing.
SQL SERVER – Fix – Missing ‘Mirroring’ and ‘Transaction Log Shipping’ option in the Database Properties
(Pinal Dave) If you are a SQL Server developer or DBA, the chances are you are quite familiar working with SQL Server Management Studio. The longer you have been in the industry, more likely are you to take these tools for granted. Sometimes, the tool or our basic mistakes in understanding the tool
Azure Blob Storage Snapshots using Client Library and REST APIs
(Kunal Chandratre) A Blob storage can be thought of as a special table storage in the cloud. Azure Blob storage is a service for storing large amounts of data in binary format as data chunks that can be accessed via HTTP or HTTPS.
Javascript – How To Call Function Inside JQuery Code
(mkyong) Review a Javascript code snippet to call a function which declared inside jQuery code :
What happens when your application cannot open yet another connection to MySQL
(Fernando Laudares) Have you ever experienced a situation where one moment you can connect to the MySQL database and the next moment you cannot, only to be able to connect again a second later? As you may know one cannot open infinite connections with MySQL.
Slow external table access
(connormcdonald) We had an interesting issue on 12.1.0.1, where users were reporting very slow performance on queries to external tables.