(Bob Pusateri) Earlier this year I did a post on a new method I stumbled up on for copying and pasting file paths. I thought it was a huge timesaver, and I use it multiple times daily. Judging from the reactions I got, I’d say plenty of others have found it useful as well.
Other News
SQL SERVER – FIX: Error 5161 – An Unexpected file id was Encountered
(Pinal Dave) Recently I was planning to give a demo about increasing tempdb files and its performance benefit. So while making the demo at home, I was doing multi-tasking. Talking to my daughter, having food and making demo. So, I ran the script and restarted SQL Server service but SQL Service didn’
Accessing Twitter with C#
(Peter Shaw) These days, social media rules the web waves, so being able to get access to your day to day activities on your various networks is perhaps one of the most common tasks that most .NET developers have to do these days. In this article, we’ll go through the basics of accessing a Twitter a
Different types of routing in ASP.NET MVC
(Sheo Narayan) In this article, we are going to learn about different types of Routing in ASP.NET MVC. We will learn convention based routing. In the next article, we shall learn attribute based routing.
First WPF Application (12): Data Binding Basics
(Ged Mead) Because the Data Binding abilities are so important I’m going to introduce them into the project now, even though at this stage of the application’s development it won’t be the most impressive example. That said, if you see how to bind data in the simple ListBox scenario here, you’ll hav
Neural Network Back-Propagation using Python
(James McCaffrey) When I’m working in a pure Microsoft technology environment, C# is my go-to programming language. But when I’m working in a hybrid environment, Python is my preferred language.
The Trouble with SQL Tuning
(Lockwood Lyon) Ask yourself this question: How long have DBAs been doing SQL tuning? My guess is 25 years or more. If so, then why are we still doing it?! Do you, as a DBA, want to spend your entire career tuning SQL statements? Don’t you want something more than that?
Canned Database Mangement
Even canned software solutions using a SQL Server database may benefit from tuning. SQL Server does a pretty good job of hiding these details from you with “out of the box” configurations performing database maintenance operations, sometimes without users even knowing they exist. Automatically creating or updating statistics helps keep your database tuned as your data grows. When a canned […]
Top 20 DB2Night Show DB2 z/OS Replay Downloads of 2014
(Scott Hayes) The DB2Night Show is pleased to announce our most popular DB2 for z/OS shows of 2014 based on number of replay downloads during the calendar year. You might notice that some of the shows are older – blame it on very helpful content!
Practical SQL: DB2 at Home, Part 1, the Environment
(Joe Pluta) One of the great features of the IBM midrange platform is its integrated database. For the longest time, we midrange programmers didn’t even have a name for the database; we just knew how to access it with RPG and later with SQL.