(Steve Barker) You probably already know that Sphinx supports MySQL binary network protocol. But, if you haven’t heard– Sphinx can be accessed with the regular ol’ MySQL API. Pretty much any language you use to query MySQL can be used to query Sphinx.
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WPF: How to Create A ColorAnimation in Code
(Ged Mead) Let’s say you want to create an animation that changes the text color of a TextBlock from Green to Red over a duration of 5 seconds. Clearly, this is a task for a color animation, but if you try and change the Foreground, you’ll find that it just doesn’t work.
A Better Password
It seems like we continue to write our authentication applications using the same old techniques that are less secure for a number of reasons. First let me explain what I mean by old techniques. Your password must have at least one upper case letter Your password must have at least one lower case letter Your password must contain at least […]
SQL Server 2014 Replication – Part 2
SQL Server 2014 Replication – Part 2 Author: Basit A. Farooq Editor’s note: In this second part of my SQL Server 2014 Replication article series, you’ll first learn about different types of replication agents and there security context. Next, you’ll learn how configure Distributor. Finally, you’ll learn how to configure Snapshot replication. Replication agents Replication agents perform the activities necessary...
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Shadow tables: A Cure for Reporting Headaches on Transaction Systems!
(Iqbal Goralwalla) I’m really excited about the DB2 10.5 “Cancun Release”, in particular with the Shadow tables feature. Based on my experiences with customers who have mixed workloads (transaction and analytic) on a transactional system, one of the big performance pain points is when the transactio
CustomValidator with client validation function script
(Sivaraman Dhamodaran) Validation controls are useful to perform the validation on the web forms. ASP.Net framework provides validation controls like RequiredFieldValidator, RangeValidator and CompareValidator etc. Sometimes, these validation controls are not adequate to perform the special validati
Web API OData V4 Using Contained Models Part 6
(damienbod) This post is part 6 of the Web API and OData V4 series. This article shows how Web API 2.2 with OData V4 can use contained EntityTypes in an OData model without defining the entities on the top level. In this example, the Player entity is the route entity set.
Search Functionality in ASP.NET MVC
(Annabattula Ashok Chakravarthi) Search plays a major role in every web application. In this article we are going to learn how to develop search functionalities in ASP.NET MVC.
Block size and multirow DML peformance
(Nikolay Savvinov) While 8k is the default block size, Oracle supports other block sizes, too. Smaller block sizes (more commonly, 4k) are encouraged for OLTP workloads to reduce concurrency, and even smaller block size, 2k, is recommended for databases running on “Advanced format” (or “4K”) storage
Zone Map Zone ID’s
(Alex Fatkulin) Just a quick follow up to my previous post on how Zone ID’s are calculated.