(Anton Scheffer) Doing a FTP-job with PL/SQL is not difficult.
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WPF Data Binding – Collection Views
(Richard Carr) The one hundred and fourth part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial continues to look at data binding for multiple items. This article considers collection views, which allow data bound collections to be sorted, grouped and filtered.
Making Smart Storage Decisions for DB2 in a Flash and SSD World
(Jeff Berger and Lee LaFrese) The tight integration that DB2 for z/OS has with the System z architecture and the z/OS environment creates a synergy that allows DB2 to exploit advanced z/OS platform functions.
What’s new in MySQL Fabric 1.5.2?
(Alfranio Correia) MySQL Fabric 1.5.2 is out. In this release, you will find fixes for some bugs and, specially, new exciting features:
Skipping Schema DML in an Oracle 11.2 Logical Standby Database
(David Fitzjarrell) An interesting issue presented itself just recently with a logical standby database I manage. The database is used for generating reports and the client wanted to skip all DML activity for a given schema as it wasn’t necessary for reporting purposes. I had done this in version 10
SSIS – Configure a source flat file with a fixed width from an existing table
(Ron Kirchgessner) SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) can import data from a fixed width flat text file (i.e. no field delimiters), using the Flat File Source component. When importing this type of file, you must set the field names, field widths, and starting positions ahead of time.
Date and Time Options
Old habits die hard; at least for me that is true. I find that I am still using the old DateTime data type, even though other options were introduced in SQL Server 2008 resulting in equivalent, more, or less precision while using less memory in some cases. Susan Ibach did a nice blog a few years ago breaking out some […]
Developing a top-down Web Service project
(Francesco Marchioni) The bottom-up approach for creating a Web Service endpoint has been introduced in the first chapter. It allows exposing existing beans as Web Service endpoints very quickly: in most cases, turning the classes into endpoints is a matter of simply adding few annotations in the co
Probit Classification Using C#
(James McCaffrey) Probit (“probability unit”) classification is a machine learning (ML) technique that can be used to make predictions in situations where the dependent variable to predict is binary—that is, it can take one of just two possible values. Probit classification is also called probit reg
Three steps to use jQuery UI in ASP.NET MVC 5
(Dhananjay Kumar) Many developers struggle to work with jQuery UI in an ASP.NET MVC application. In this post, I will show you three steps required to start working with jQuery UI in an ASP.NET MVC application. At the end of the post we will take a look at working with the autocomplete widget.