Do you want to speed up the performance of your Entity Framework project? Jonathan Magnan has an extention for Entity Framework doing precisely that. Check it out at http://zzzprojects.com/entity-framework-extensions/ What does it do? In short it reduces the number of round trips from your app server to the database server when executing you Create, Update, or Delete operations. The extension […]
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(Abhishek Ranjan) As a part of improving the error handling, in MySQL 5.7.5 we have re-implemented STRICT sql mode.
Statement-Level Atomicity
(stewashton) So important yet often ignored or misunderstood! No, not me, but “statement level atomicity”.
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(Sridhar_R-Oracle) In this blog, I am going to provide an overview of new Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) features that were introduced in Oracle Database 12c.
Alerting on plans that change for the worse
(Bobby Durrett) I’ve uploaded a monitoring script that I have worked on: zip.
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(KeithMayer) Since previously publishing the Quick Start Guide for Building Highly Available Linux Servers in the Cloud on Microsoft Azure, several people have asked me about ways in which Linux workload provisioning can be automated with Azure.
Java Bytecode Reverse Engineering
This article is especially designed to crack Java executables by disassembling their corresponding bytes code. Disassembling of Java bytecodes is the act of transforming Java bytecodes into Java source code.
Improved Online Operations in SQL Server 2014
(Dinesh Asanka) Online indexing rebuilding was a major breakthrough from SQL Server to support users re-indexing while the clustered index (or table) and other indexes are available during the index rebuild operation.

