(Maarten Smeets) LDAP servers can be configured to use as authenticator in Weblogic Server. In order to efficiently use an LDAP server, it must be possible to uniquely identify LDAP objects.
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the EXPLAIN PLAN Part 27: Throw Away That EXPLAIN PLAN! (Part I)
(Iggy Fernandez) We tend to overuse any tool—EXPLAIN PLAN in this case—that we are most familiar with. Watch this fascinating YouTube video Rewriting SQL Queries for Performance in 9 Minutes by Stephane Faroult in which he makes a good argument that execution plans should not be the first thing to l
Oracle 12c: DataPump import in NOLOGGING mode
(Shan Nawaz) I have not been blogging for quite some time now and thought of ending the year with one last blog. I picked a very simple yet powerful datapump topic for blogging. Read on …
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP: How fast is it?
(Percy Reyes) In-Memory OLTP is a new feature of Microsoft SQL Server 2014 that was born in response to business and hardware trends. But how fast is it? How we can use it to optimize OLTP transactions? Why it is faster than transactions on disk based tables?
Visual Studio Toolbox: SQL Server Data Tools
(Robert Green) In this episode, I am joined by Scott Klein, host of the Data Exposed show. Scott shows us the SQL Server Data Tools in Visual Studio and demonstrates some scenarios when you can use those rather than leaving Visual Studio and using external tools such as SQL Server Management Studio.
Constrained C#
(Paulo Zemek) When I started to use computers people used to say that “computers do what we ask them to do, not necessarely what we want them to do”. And that was related to normal computer usage. When developping, things are far worse. It is pretty easy to destroy memory contents and crash applicat
Deploying a WebSphere Cast Iron Integration Appliance pattern on IBM PureApplication System
(Ashok Iyengar) Learn how to deploy WebSphere Cast Iron Appliance as a software pattern on PureApplication System. Instead of setting up the Cast Iron hardware appliance, you can upload a hypervisor image to PureApplication System to instantiate a pattern of the Cast Iron virtual image.
What is JSON
(Chandradev) JSON is the JavaScript Object Notation. It is a lightweight format for data interchange.
Continuous availability benefits of pureScale now available in a new low cost DB2 offering
(Kelly Schlamb) Today, IBM has announced a set of new add-on offerings for DB2, which includes the IBM DB2 Performance Management Offering, IBM DB2 BLU Acceleration In-Memory Offering, IBM DB2 Encryption Offering, and the IBM DB2 Business Application Continuity Offering. More details on these offeri
Choosing the right distribution keys in a DB2 DPF database
(Pavan Kristipati) In a DB2 DPF (Database Partitioning Feature) database, the choice of the right distribution keys is an important decision that DBAs have to make. An incorrect distribution key (also called hash key) could skew the data distribution for one or more tables between the database parti