(Scott Hayes) 100% of our audience learned something! Our studio audience was filled with inspiration and gratitude for Melanie’s presentation! Watch our replay and you will see a complete cookbook for how to upgrade, what to watch out for, undocumented tricks that will speed up your upgrade, and ev
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Import and export data from your Bluemix SQL Database with SQL Database service
(Paul Van Run) Maybe you have played around with the new IBM® Bluemix platform and noticed the SQL Database service listed with the other database services such as IBM® Cloudant, MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL. SQL Database provides an on-demand relational database for transactional workloads.
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(Les King) Out in the field I meet with businesses daily to help demonstrate how they can leverage big data solutions to increase their bottom line. As I’m talking with clients one of the topics that continually comes up is what this will mean for their existing enterprise-class analytic infrastruct
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(SoftwareSimian) A customer of mine didn’t want to renew their license with Quality Centre as all of their requirements were in TFS and the business were planning iterations there; but their test cases were not linked up with those requirements.
Get All Users From Farm Level Into XML in SharePoint 2010
(Manpreet Singh) I needed to get all unique users from the Farm Level using PowerShell for my requirement. I thought it might be available in the web since it might be used many times by other developers but seriously I didn’t get any proper one so I wrote it myself and thought of sharing it with yo
SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups Fail the Initial Failover Test
(Carla Abanes) In a previous tip, you have learned to setup AlwaysOn in SQL Server 2012. After a successful setup and everything seems to be in the right place, you are preparing to test your AlwaysOn to failover to your secondary replica for the first time.
Batch Processing and Scheduling
Many systems today still have powerful batch processing engines. IBM based hardware has a history of powerful batch processing engines handling user defined job queues. This allows systems programmers to maintain multiple job queues allowing multiple processes to execute concurrently, and having jobs within a single queue run in sequence. When working in the Windows environment it seems like there […]
Gearing up the Business for Data Analytics–Part I
Data Analytics is not as simple as it is often imagined to be. I have come across people who tell me that there is nothing to it because there are a number of tools available in the market to help you mine your data. It is a good idea to remember that off-the-shelf tools are built to cater to organizations...
XML Mapping Approaches using IBM Integration Designer 8.5
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is a XML-based language used to define enterprise business processes within Web services. BPEL extends the Web services interaction model and enables it to support business transactions.
Power Pivot / Power Query Read-Only Connection Problems In Excel 2013 – And What To Do About Them
(Chris Webb) Anyone who has tried to do any serious work with Power Pivot and Power Query will know about this problem: you use Power Query to load some tables into the Data Model in Excel 2013; you make some changes in the Power Pivot window; you then go back to Power Query, make some changes there
