(Kuassi Mensah) The Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing Dedicated (ATP-D) is a database Cloud service which allows implementing a private database Cloud service running on dedicated Exadata Infrastructure within the Oracle Public Cloud.
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Permanent URLs for the Latest Instant Client Packages
(Christopher Jones) Permanent URLs that download the latest Oracle Instant Client packages are now live on OTN. Instant Client packages give you free, light-weight, and easily installed Oracle Database tools, libraries and SDKs.
Read Excel File in SQL Server with OPENROWSET or OPENDATASOURCE
(Diana Moldovan)Sometimes you need to quickly reference the content of an Excel file in a SQL Server T-SQL script, however, this may not be as simple as it seems. In this tip I’ll offer solutions for a few of the most common problems that may affect you when trying to read an Excel file using OPENRO
React Material UI
(Prashant Rewatkar) In this article, we are going to learn about what Material UI library is and how to install a Material UI library in React web applications.
Tips for using SQL Server 2019 Reporting Services
Tips for using SQL Server 2019 Reporting Services SQL Server 2019 Reporting Services (SSRS) is a server-based reporting platform that provides comprehensive reporting functionality. You can download SSRS 2019 at here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=100122 Consider hosting a database catalog used for SSRS in an Azure SQL Managed Instance. In SSRS 2019 you can host a database catalog used for SSRS in an...
Power BI Report Builder And RSCustomDaxFilter
(Chris Webb) If you’re building DAX queries using Power BI Report Builder you might notice something that looks like a new DAX function called RSCustomDaxFilter.
Db2 12 for z/OS Function Level 506
(Craig S. Mullins) Late last month, October 2019, IBM introduced a new function level, FL506, for Db2 12 for z/OS. There are two significant impacts of this new function level:
Stop Mapping Stuff in Your Middleware. Use SQL’s XML or JSON Operators Instead
(lukaseder) It’s been a while since I’ve ranted on this blog, but I was recently challenged by a reddit thread to write about this topic, so here goes…
FireFox, Windows Security and Kestrel on ASP.NET Core
(Rick Strahl) I’ve been working on an application that’s using Windows Authentication for an intranet application. Windows authentication is used because some of the business rules are deeply dependent on Active Directory roles and authorization information and the most efficient way to get this inf
What is Dynamic Object Creation in C/C++?
(Manoj Debnath) In C++, dynamic memory allocation is done by using the new and delete operators. There is a similar feature in C using malloc(), calloc(), and deallocation using the free() functions. Note that these are functions. This means that they are supported by an external library.
