(Lockwood Lyon) Big data software, hardware, application suites, business analytics solutions … suddenly, it seems, IT enterprises are deluged with vendor offerings that solve problems it didn’t know it had. Competitors are gathering data to determine customer needs, define new product categories,
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Calling an ASMX Web Service From Other Server Using jQuery and PHP
(Sibeesh Venu) A few months back, I got a requirement to fetch some inventory data from a server and show it to an HTML page. The interesting fact was the client server (the one that I want to show the data in) does not support .Net files.
User Defined Table Type
User Defined Table Types have been in SQL Server since 2008. They are mostly used to pass sets of data into a stored procedure. You create the user defined table type first in a database. Then you can populate the type from your client application or another SQL Server object. That table, defined as your own table type, may then […]
The DB2Night Show z53: Altering objects and the impact it has
(Martin) 96% of our studio audience learned something! Some alters are a piece of cake and can also reverted. Others are more complex and have a (big) impact.
Query Samples, Explained
(John Potocny) The EXPLAIN command is one of MySQL’s most useful tools for understanding query performance. When you EXPLAIN a query, MySQL will return the plan created by the query optimizer.
Does Increasing An Oracle Background Process OS Priority Improve Performance?
(Craig Shallahamer) Does increasing an Oracle Database background process operating system priority improve performance? As you might expect, the answer is, “It depends.”
Finally a Federation STS sample using ASP.NET Forms Authentication!
(Rodney Viana) I have recently worked on an advisory case on which the customer was looking for a STS sample using ASP.NET Forms authentication as base to provide the claims. The Internet may be vast, but it is like a desert when it comes to a single sample of a STS leveraging forms authentication.
Full-text search for your back-end using Azure Search and Azure Mobile Services
(Jesus Aguilar) In a previous blog post, I described the implementation of full-text search capabilities for your Azure Mobile Services back-end. With the recent availability of Azure Search —search as a service in Azure— I thought it would be useful to revisit the idea and modify it using this cool
Adding AJAX HTMLEditorExtender control to a webform
(Vivek Goyal) Here are the steps to add ajax HMTLEditorExtender control in webform.1. In VS 2013 open Tools > Library Package Manager > Package Manager Console.2. Enter command : PM> Install-Package AjaxControlToolkit .
Sequences
Have you found an opportunity to use Sequences in SQL Server Yet? Sequences can be very powerful when implementing a type/subtype database pattern. Using a type/Subtype pattern you may have a number of tables that have similar characteristics. For example, you could have a number of different tables representing a person. You could have people tables like Employee, Sales Representative, […]