(Chris) As a part of the project I’m currently working on, the development team is very enamored with the cache transform in SSIS. I consider myself pretty experienced with SSIS, and I’ve always stayed away components that come anywhere close to touching disk with SSIS, as I believe it slows down pa
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Add Witness to Existing SQL Server Database Mirroring
(Rohit Garg) After connecting to the principal server instance, Right-click the database & go to properties. Select Mirroring from left side option.
Data as a Service: The Next ‘As a Service’ Wave?
(Robert Sheldon) There was a time that data seemed part of the application that maintained and used it. Now, there is increasing demand to deliver data through platform-agnostic open-standard APIs so it can be consumed in a variety of ways, whether refined, aggregated, or combined with additional in
Creating multi-target NuGet Packages with vNext
(Rick Strahl) One feature that is going to make it much easier to create multi-targeted NuGet packages is the ability of the vNext platform to package compiled code directly into NuGet packages. By default vNext applications don’t compile to disk but rather create source code in the AppCode folder.
Fireworks Algorithm Optimization
(James McCaffrey) Many machine learning software systems use numerical optimization. For example, in logistic regression classification, training the classifier is the process of finding a set of values for the weights associated with the input variables so that for a collection of training data, th
Sending SMS Messages with Visual Basic
(Hannes Du Preez) We all know what an SMS is (hopefully!), but sadly, SMS is said to be a dying medium of communication. I honestly do not actually think it is, because most countries are still battling with proper internet communication, and the fact that internet prices are quite expensive, especi
Finding Where a Method, Property, or Variable Is Used
(Peter Vogel) I think everybody knows that if you click on a variable, method, or property name and press F12 (or select Go To Definition from the pop-up menu) you’ll be taken to the method or property’s code or to the variable’s declaration.
Textual Analysis of Big Data: Part 2
(Krish Krishnan) Text analysis can advance the integration of unstructured data beyond just light indexing and pattern matching for conducting a search.
Tip to Detect Key Press through JavaScript and jQuery
(Shrikant Dhar Dwivedi) Sometimes, we are in a situation when we are required to find out which key is pressed through code. Below is the sample code for getting key press using client side script (JavaScript and jQuery):
Caching Strategy Design for WebSphere Commerce, Part 2: Implementation of Caching Strategy
(Victoria O. Odeyemi, Marco Deluca, Andon Salvarinov, Howard Borenstein, Kevin Yu and Ali Asghar) In Part 2 of this series, you learn how to detect which eSpots are static and which are dynamic so that the eSpots can be cached appropriately on a CDN (Content Delivery Network).