(Ged Mead) If you want to copy one or more items from one ListView to another, you’d probably start out by looking for a Copy method on the ListViewItem class. I know I did. But that’s not the answer. Here’s how you do it:
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Using In Memory Tables for SQL Server 2014
I was reading a performance comparison by Ben Snaidero of In Memory tables in SQL Server 2014 to Disk Tables, and not surprised that the differences were not that far apart. Why would that be? Unless you have hiding or simply new to SQL Server you have been told that SQL Server performs all of the data manipulation in cache. […]
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Idiot Proofing the jQuery.ready
(Remy Sharp) I’m always writing quick prototypes of ideas I’ve got, and often they’ll include some quick jQuery.
ORA-01460 on PL/SQL Developer
(Andrew Reid) An Oracle 9 database had the following character set:
Querying trace files
(Nikolay Savvinov) SQL trace file provide the highest level of detail possible about SQL execution. The problem with that information is converting it to a convenient format for further analysis. One very good solution is parsetrc tool by Kyle Hailey written in Perl. It gives high-resolution histogr
Implementing Sorting and Paging in ASP.NET MVC
(Bipin Joshi) Displaying records in a table is a very common requirement in many web applications. Such a table also needs facilities such as sorting the data based on a specific column and pagination for the sake of easy navigation and display. Unlike ASP.NET web forms, MVC doesn’t have readymade s
WPF Data Binding – Common Binding Options
(Richard Carr) The ninety-fourth part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial adds to the description of data binding. This article describes two common options for data binding that allow control of the direction of data flow and the timing of updates.
Be Careful About Launching Asynchronous Tasks Inside CFTransaction In ColdFusion
(Ben Nadel) The other day, I was trying to track down inconsistent behavior in some ColdFusion code. Sometimes it would run properly; other times it would fail. At first, the issue wasn’t entirely obvious. But, after digging into the workflow, I realized that it was a transaction race-condition in w
Identifying large queries using Server Side Traces
(Andrew Pruski) Who are your worst offenders? By offenders I mean, queries that are consuming the most resources on your server(s).