(K. Scott Allen) One of the reasons for Angular’s success is the flexibility in the building blocks the framework provides. There is a delicate balance between productivity and flexibility. A heavily opinionated framework can be make a team highly productive, but the opinions can also make it harder
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DB2 Quick Tip: Checking Connection State
(Ember Crooks) Sometimes the connection state is unclear. The following can all make it fuzzy wether or not you have a valid connection:
MVC for Developers, Light Switch for the Masses
Have you looked at the Light Switch application generator from Microsoft? I don’t hear a lot of buzz around it. But, within the target audience for which it is designed you can stand up an application really quickly. I just finished walking through a tutorial using a sample database I designed and the experience was surprisingly refreshing. Light Switch works […]
RDBMS Concept In Normalization & De-normalization of Data — Part 1
RDBMS Concept In Normalization & De-normalization of Data – Part 1 Introduction: A database design is trailed by a significant investigation of data to certify that the data in the database tables are reliable and appropriate. Normalization is a procedure of dropping the recurrence of data in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). However occasionally, a database designer may possibly...
[SQL Snacks Video] Performance Tuning 101 – Baseline with PAL Tools
(Ayman El-Ghazali) Welcome to Part 1 of my SQL Snack Pack on Performance Tuning! The series is dedicated to help beginners understand how to start performance tuning with SQL Server. This first video describes how to setup a baseline for your system using the PAL tools.
Why I’m Not Excited About Hekaton (In-Memory OLTP)
(Adam Kreul) A while back I had written a post about why I’m excited about Hekaton (now called ‘In-Memory OLTP’ – not sure why, Hekaton is much more fun to say), and while I am certainly still excited about this new feature, it does have some significant barriers to entry. Here’s a quick hit list o
I SCHEMABOUND my scalar UDF and you won’t believe what happened next.
(Kenneth Fisher) Sorry for the click bait but I just couldn’t resist, and to be fair I was pretty impressed with this little trick.
Implementing Sorting and Paging in the Web API Using OData Queries
(Bipin Joshi) The client displaying data returned by a Web API may want to implement sorting or paging on the data being returned. Although there can be different ways to implement these features, a simple technique is to use OData support offered by the Web API.
Use SignalR to Build Real-Time Connectivity into Your Software
(Rachel Appel) You want to write software that works just like popular social networking sites do, with lively, immediate information. That means building real-time high-frequency updates into your software, because users want their data and they want it now. In some situations, moving data in real-
C# 6.0 What’s New
(Filip Ekberg) C# 6.0 introduces a number of new features that will make it easier for developers to avoid boilerplate code. We also have a new compiler technology called “Roslyn” which allows us hook in” to the compiler and modify certain behavior as our programs compile.
