(Peter J. Jones) With each programming language you learn, it’s important to dig in and discover its idiosyncrasies. Ruby is no different. While it borrows heavily from the languages that preceded it, Ruby certainly has its own way of doing things. And sometimes those ways will surprise you.
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Using WCF in .NET Native
(Ron Cain) In our previous post, we mentioned that some of the client components of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) had been made available for .NET Native Windows Store apps in Visual Studio “14” CTP3. In this post, I will describe how to build a sample WCF Windows Store App using CTP3 and m
Crushing the 1-million-item-limit myth with .NET Search Connector [BDC]
(Brian) Ever heard the one about not being able to crawl more than a million or two rows from a single source using SharePoint Business Connectivity Services (BCS)? In this post, I plan to dispel this myth and instead show that large crawls tend to fall over because of overly large enumerations.
Active-Active Replication, Performance Improvements & Operational Enhancements – some of what’s available in the new MySQL Cluster 7.4.1 DMR
(Andrew Morgan) Oracle have just made availble the new MySQL Cluster 7.4.1 Development Milestone Release – it can be downloaded from the development release tab here. Note that this is not a GA release and so we wouldn’t recommend using it in production.
Startup upgrade suppresses ORA-00955 on create table WRH$_SQL_PLAN
(Bobby Durrett) Today I was trying to see if upgrading from 11.2.0.2 to 11.2.0.4 would change the SYS.WRH$_SQL_PLAN table. This table is large on our production system so I wanted to find out if some time-consuming update to this table would occur that would slow down our production upgrade but not
CSV, XML and JSON parsing – a comparison over versions
(Kim Berg Hansen) I was asked to try and give advice concerning fastest way to parse CSV data in PL/SQL. The case was that they had a different database that could be setup to deliver data as a webservice serving either CSV, XML or JSON, and they wished to let their APEX application use PL/SQL to re
ADF Region Data Synchronisation with Change Event Policy
(Andrejus Baranovskis) This post applies for multiple ADF regions, based on the same Data Control. I will show you can avoid using ADF Contextual Events to synchronise two ADF regions, when both are based on the same Data Control and this Data Control is shared between the two.
Email Automation
Mail Merge through Email is a really cool technology. Using Mail Merge you can create the contents any number of different ways. You can do office automation, use third party controls, or even roll your own templates with whatever logic works for your application. The key is that you are using data from your systems to generate the contents of […]
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DB2 for z/OS: DDF, Stored Procedures, and SET CURRENT PACKAGESET
(Robert Catterall) Recently, I was talking with people from a company’s IT department about modernizing their mainframe application architecture.Among other things, we discussed increasing the company’s use of stored procedures for DB2 for z/OS data access.