(Ged Mead) Although the ColorAnimation is probably one of the least used built-in animations, it can come in useful at times. Because the From and To properties both take colors, a popular use is to fade between colors. Here’s an example.
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The Road to MySQL 5.6 — A DBA Perspective
(Gavin Towey) We’ve all heard the hype. MySQL 5.6 is packed with amazing new features that address all our database problems. 5.6 deals with replication and HA and performance and monitoring and security and features. It just may cure cancer.
Running Multiple Versions of Software
How many versions of SQL Server are you running? With the limited number of enhancements made in the SQL Server engine it seems that companies are less likely to upgrade their current version that previously. That may be an error on my part, but that is my perception based on the versions of SQL Server being requested on Job Postings. […]
SSWUGtv: SQL Server Backup and restore – to the cloud! (Or not?)
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WPF Data Binding – INotifyPropertyChanged
(Richard Carr) The ninety-third part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial continues to look at data binding using the DataContext property. This article considers the INotifyPropertyChanged interface, which lets classes send notifications when property values are modified.
Use InvokeProcess Activity in Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 to add Build Summary Information
(Gouri Sohoni) Call metrics utility through Custom (xaml and code) Activity and use InvokeProcess Activity in VS 2013 and TFS 2013 to add build summary information about the activity invoked.
IBM Business Monitor and DB2 users, not instances
(Dave Hay) So I have been wrestling with IBM Business Monitor and, more specifically, Cognos, which was failing to start up with errors such as DPR-DPR-1035, DPR-CMI-4007, CM-CFG-5063 and CM-CFG-5137.
Memoization in XQuery
(Dave Cassel) Memoization is tracking partial solutions so that they don’t have to be recalculated. A good example of where this is handy is the Fibonacci sequence. You may remember that the definition of this is:
12c metadata only default values for NULL columns
(Ilmar Kerm) Before 11g if you added a new column to a table then Oracle had to lock and physically update all rows in the table. Possibly a painful process 🙂 11g helped with that a little, giving metadata only default values for NOT NULL columns, so the change was done only in data dictionary, not
MERGE and IOT’s ….. unhappy bedfellows
(connormcdonald) Anyone who has used Oracle for a while will be familiar with the Parent/Child locking “issue” when it comes to tables and indexes on foreign keys. For many years you’d hear people crying “bug” etc but thankfully most now know the reason, and accept it as sensible behaviour.