(Rahul Saxena) In this article I show how to show images from a folder as an Image Slider using jQuery.
Other News
‘4k bug’ is not a bug
(savvinov) A couple of weeks back I received an update on my “4k bug” SR (slow multirow DML performance for small block sizes). As it turns out, the observed behavior is not a bug. It’s actually more interesting than that.
Avoiding MySQL ALTER table downtime
(Andrew Moore) MySQL table alterations can interrupt production traffic causing bad customer experience or in worst cases, loss of revenue. Not all DBAs, developers, syadmins know MySQL well enough to avoid this pitfall.
The IBM Data Movement Tool
(Ember Crooks) We DBAs are lazy in some ways. Our favorite way of moving large amounts of data is the backup utility. It’s so easy to move data, structure, objects, permissions, etc.
What Does SQL Tuning Accomplish?
(Lockwood Lyon) The most common performance issues related to SQL are those where a statement either executes for an inordinate amount of time, consumes excessive resources, or exceeds some capacity limit. Here are some examples:
Using Cordova and Visual Studio to build iOS Mobile Apps
(Rick Strahl) Last week I took a look at the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova, which is currently available as a CTP preview. To be honest I didn’t have high hopes, given some disastrous presentations I’d recently seen on this toolset.
Microsoft SQL Server and the Big Data Play
(Kevin Kline) When it comes to implementing a big data strategy in a Microsoft SQL Server shop, you’re generally going to consider one of three strategies. In the first strategy, which I won’t be addressing today, you might choose to tackle your big data architecture by pushing your relational datab
Does a clustered index sort the rows within a page
(Kenneth Fisher) This is just something I was curious about. I ran my tests and got an answer and now I thought I would share.
Reading The Power Query Trace File–With Power Query
(Chris Webb) In the September 2014 update of Power Query a new piece of functionality was added: the ability to turn on tracing. There’s no documentation about what the trace files actually contain anywhere (it’s clearly intended to be used only by Microsoft to help them diagnose problems) but I cou
Integrating JavaScript with TypeScript (and Backbone and Knockout)
(Peter Vogel) I have two topics for this month’s column. Primarily, I want to show you how to integrate native JavaScript functions into your TypeScript application, and do it in a way that gives you IntelliSense support and compile-time checking for how that function is called.