(Rick Strahl) A few years back I wrote a small jQuery plug-in used for monitoring changes to CSS styles of a DOM element. The plug-in allows for monitoring CSS styles and Attributes on an element and then getting notified if the monitored CSS style changed. This can be useful to sync up to objects o
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Responsive Web Design: Relying on the Form-Factor
(Dino Esposito) For visitors to get a good experience from your website irrespective of the device they use, you need to do more than just accommodate to the dimensions of the browser in pixels. To take it to the next level, you need to know about the device and its capabilities and characteristics.
Get Ready to Learn SQL Server: 14. Introduction to Outer Joins
(Kris Wenzel) The series starts with the article Introduction to Database Joins. All the examples for this lesson are based on Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and the AdventureWorks2012 database.
Creating Histograms With Power Query
(Chris Webb) A few months ago someone at a conference asked me what the Power Query Table.Partition() function could be used for, and I had to admit I had no idea. However, when I thought about it, I realised one obvious use: for creating histograms!
Non-obvious APS/PDW benefits
(James Serra) The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has a lot of obvious benefits, which I discuss here. For those of you who find your database is getting too big, or becoming too slow, or you need to integrate non-relational data, check out
Apply DB2 skills to Hadoop by using Big SQL on Bluemix
(Henrik Loeser) One of the many services offered on the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) IBM Bluemix is “IBM Analytics for Hadoop”, basically InfoSphere BigInsights as cloud service. Because it is a Big Data service and it offers SQL capabilities I was eager to test it. Here is a first report how I got
DB2 SQL and Application Performance Tools
(Craig S. Mullins) So far in this series of blog posts on DB2 performance tools, we have looked at system and database performance solutions. But perhaps the most important solution area involves monitoring and tuning application SQL statements.
Any Way the Wind Blows
(Mark Bowytz) Since landing at Ventozoom six months back, Robert has been working on a single application — a rather complex .NET application with a cryptic code base to match. Rumored to be responsible for several employee separations, it’s the kind of application that started life as an innocent,
Backup and Restore Strategies in SQL Server – Part 2
(Arshad Ali) There are several high availability solutions, which can be used with SQL Server like AlwaysOn, Failover Clustering, Database mirroring.
When your query is blocked, but there is no blocking query – Part 2
(Daniël van Eeden) In my previous post I talked about a transaction which blocked other transactions without doing anything. I talked about finding data from the blocking transaction using SYS and performance_schema.