(Chris Webb) A bit of an obscure one, this, but useful to know nonetheless…
Other News
vNext: What’s in It for You?
(Peter Vogel) Microsoft is building a new framework for you: vNext. It won’t be as radical a change as moving to the original Microsoft .NET Framework, but it will be like moving to the .NET Framework 2.0: Not all of your existing code is compatible with the new framework.
SQL SERVER – SSMS: Performance Dashboard Installation and Configuration
(Pinal Dave) If the standard set of reports were not enough, in this blog, let me introduce an interesting addition to the reports. This is called as Performance Dashboard reports.
P/Invoke Refresher
(Peter Shaw) Many older devs in .NET will know exactly what I’m talking about when I mention P/Invoke; a lot of newer devs, however, will very likely not.
Clustered Indexes Based Upon GUIDs
(Tim Ford) Some things go great together: chocolate & peanut butter, movies & popcorn, Mork & Mindy, to name a few. However, there are even more things that don’t mesh well: brushing your teeth & drinking lemonade, Mondays & happiness, myself & reaching the top shelf in the grocery store . . . GUID
Scala 4 Spring MVC without Web.XML: WebConfig Class Configuration with Localization
(Miroslav Kopecky) In my previous article I was writing about Scala 4 Spring MVC without Web.XML and how to handle static resources accessed by AngularJS front-end client. In this article I will show how to connect the application with Apache Tiles 3.0. Apache Tiles enables possibility to define fra
Replication from Oracle to MariaDB the simple way – Part 4
(Anders Karlsson) Now it’s time to get serious about replicating to MariaDB from Oracle, and we are real close now, right? What I needed was a means of keeping track of what happens in a transaction, such as a LOG table of some kind, and then an idea of applying this log to MariaDB when there is a C
Little things worth knowing-troubleshooting parallel statement queueing
(Martin Bach) This is yet another one of these posts that hopefully help you as much as they are going to help me in the future. Recently I enjoyed troubleshooting a problem related to parallel execution. Since I have never really written down how to tackle such a problem I thought it might be nice
Index Compression Part VI: 12c Index Advanced Compression Block Dumps (Tumble and Twirl)
(Richard Foote) Sometimes, a few pictures (or in this case index block dumps) is better than a whole bunch of words 🙂
SQL Developer Reports: Reference Lines in Charts
(Jeff Smith) The ubiquitous HR.EMPLOYEES table – how many different ways can we look at this data?