(James Sinclair) Algebraic Structures are something I wish I’d understood better, sooner. I had a hazy idea of what they were, but didn’t know the correct terminology. That was a massive barrier to finding out more.
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ColdFusion Performance Experiment: Caching Per-Application Settings In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62
(Ben Nadel) At InVision, the amount of work that we do in the Application.cfc ColdFusion framework component is a bit staggering. Not only are we setting up all of the Lucee CFML mappings, custom paths, data-sources, SMTP servers, and cache configurations, we’re also defining hundreds of FW/1 routes
Using MySQL Galera Cluster Replication to Create a Geo-Distributed Cluster: Part Two
(Krzysztof Ksiazek) In the previous blog in the series we discussed the pros and cons of using Galera Cluster to create geo-distributed cluster.
The definition of proof
(Connor McDonald) One of the pieces of advice that I often see on the ‘net is that undo space is somehow this incredibly precious thing, and as a consequence, one should always keep the amount of uncommitted changes in the database to a small size.
Troubleshoot Slow RDS SQL Servers with Performance Insights
(Sadequl Hussain) Amazon RDS SQL Server now supports Performance Insights. How can we use it to troubleshoot SQL Server performance bottlenecks?
How To Setup Angular 8 App
(Jayakrishnan V B) In this article, you will learn how to setup an Angular 8 app.
Complexities of Deep Customer Knowledge
It’s the dream, really, to know more about your customers. To know how they use your services or goods and how you can better serve them. To have some sort of predictive knowledge about what they’ll want and to be able to be right there, right on time, just as they need, so they’ll never stray. This requires information – […]
How to Change Your Resume to Get More Interviews
This question came from a job seeker. I am having a hard time earning job interviews and I think I know why. My resume may give the impression of job-hopping. I hope you can help me! I am having a hard time earning job interviews for job positions in the legal industry. I have a college degree in paralegal studies....
#PowershellBasics: The GetType() and GetTypeCode() methods
(Kenneth Fisher) I’m a DBA. Data types are kind of important to me. I mean I know they are important to developers as well but spend some time as a DBA and they get really important. That makes these two methods of particular interest to me.
Azure Synapse Analytics new features
(James Serra) Almost lost in all the announcements from Ignite was a bunch of amazing new features that were added to the Provisioned Resources/SQL Pool section (read SQLDW functionalities) side of Azure Synapse Analytics (formally called Azure SQL Data Warehouse).


