(Jon Smith) Pre-existing SQL databases, particularly if complex, can often pose problems for software developers who are creating a new application. The data may be in a format that makes it hard to access or update, and may include SQL functions and procedures.
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Azure: Premium Storage, RemoteApp, SQL Database Update, Live Media Streaming, Search and More
(Scott Guthrie) Today we released a number of great enhancements to Microsoft Azure. These include:
Broadcasting Database Changes Through SignalR
(Ricardo Peres) There are several posts out there on using SignalR to signal changes in a database, but because I really didn’t quite like any of them, I decided to write my own.
Constructing URLs the easy way
(Darrel Miller) When building client applications that need to connect to a HTTP API, sooner or later you are going to get involved in constructing a URL based on a API Root and some parameters. Often enough when looking at client libraries I see lots of ugly string concatenation and conditional lo
Some Thoughts on the new .Net
(Jeremy Miller) The big announcements on the new ASP.Net runtime were made a couple weeks ago, but I write very slowly these days, so here’s my delayed reaction.
Timer Based Animations using jQuery
(Suprotim Agarwal) In this article, we will explore how to create timer based animations using jQuery.
Names Do Matter
Aaron shares a pragmatic approach to naming. Based on his response it would appear there is still a great value in how we name our objects. Aaron writes: I think the names we give to things that our applications are built around are really important because these things we created will/should be the language of our system and how we […]
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Rollback to Savepoint Does Not Release Locks
(Andrew Reid) I read that rolling back to a savepoint releases locks. This sounded reasonable so I decided to check it out in an Oracle 11.2 database.
Pseudo GTID
(Shlomi Noach) Pseudo GTID is a method to implement a GTID-like solution where slaves are easily connected to one another. This blog post and the following ones will describe work in progress (some 80% completed), where simulation of GTID makes for a good enough basis for refactoring replication top