(Willie Favero) If you have had the opportunity to do any performance tuning of DB2 for z/OS, you have probably come across any number of IFCID (instrumentation facility component identifier) at some point.
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Getting Started with the WPF Popup
(Ged Mead) The Popup is rather like a Tooltip, but has several additional features. Possibly the most important one is that a Popup can accept focus, so you can place elements on its surface that the user can click in order to fire an event of some kind. In this post, I’ll demonstrate that functio
How To Split Non-Empty Partitions When A Clustered Columnstore Index Exists on The Table
(Richard_RP) Another pithily titled blog post, but this one revisits the feature of SQL Server 2014 that piqued my interest the most: Clustered Columnstore Indexes. I’ve been working with Clustered Columnstore Indexes for the past few months and recently a colleague had to split a non empty partitio
Securing ASP.NET MVC Applications with ASP.NET Identity
(Bipin Joshi) ASP.NET offers Forms Authentication as one of the authentication schemes. Developers often use Forms Authentication in combination with membership, roles and profile features to provide security to their web applications. Over the years the needs of authentication schemes used in a web
Features of ES6 Part 4: Rest Parameters
(K. Scott Allen) A rest parameter allows a function to work with an unknown or variable number of arguments. A function’s rest parameter always appears at the end of the function’s argument list and uses a triple dot prefix (…), as shown below.
HowTo: Group output items using XSL transformation
(George Birbilis) While trying to generate a single HTML page that will list all ClipFlair activities using XSL Transformations (XSLT), I had the need to group items in 2-column rows.
Tips and Tricks : Move database files to new location – various approaches
(blakhani) Recently someone ask this question to me – How would you move database files to new location with no downtime. Based on my knowledge, the downtime is needed as we need physical movement of the database files and they can’t be moved unless the handle is released by a process, which is sqls
Semantic Code Highlighting
(Terrence Dorsey) We often take syntax highlighting for granted — it just makes code so much more readable that it’s become hard to live without. I’ll take a look at a little history behind it and some new developments that might make code coloring even more useful.
New in Oracle 12c: Querying an Associative Array in PL/SQL Programs
(Galo Balda) I was aware that up to Oracle 11g, a PL/SQL program wasn’t allowed use an associative array in a SQL statement. This is what happens when I try to do it.
Common Roles get copied upon plug-in with #Oracle Multitenant
(Uwe Hesse) What happens when you unplug a pluggable database that has local users who have been granted common roles? They get copied upon plug-in of the PDB to the target container database!
