(Ember Crooks) There are a number of ways to cover error logging. I have covered some specific elements in previous posts, so I’m going for a more comprehensive approach in this post.
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UTL_FILE_DIR Security Weakness: Why and How To Use Oracle Directories
(mmiller) UTL_FILE_DIR is the database initialization parameter the Oracle Database uses to determine what operating system directories and files PL/SQL packages, functions, and procedures may read from or write to when using the standard UTL_FILE database package.
Getting started with Oracle Database In-Memory Part I – Installing & Enabling
(Maria Colgan) Now that Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 has been officially released, I can finally start sharing more technical details on how Oracle Database In-Memory (Database In-Memory) works.
Monitoring Active Directory Import for SharePoint 2013 User Profiles
(Will Feaser) Managing user profiles in SharePoint 2010 presented many challenges to administrators. If you ever had to troubleshoot user profile imports in SharePoint 2010, you probably quickly realized that the FIM synchronization client was an invaluable resource.
Implementation of Graphics Using JSPDF
(Gaurav Katara) JSPDF is an open-source library for generating PDF documents using nothing but JavaScript.
Introduction to four key MariaDB client commands
(carlaschroder) It’s time to get to know four of the most commonly used administration commands for your MariaDB server: mysql, mysqladmin, mysqldump, and mysqlimport.
Oracle: Getting The Starting Date Of A Week Using Week Number
(David Fitzjarrell) A long while back someone asked the following question, which seems simple enough:
Web API OData V4 Using Unity IoC, SQLite with EF6 and OData Model Aliasing Part 5
(damienbod) This post is part 5 of the Web API and OData V4 series. This article shows how Web API 2.2 with OData V4 can be used together with Unity as an IoC, Entity Framework with SQLite for persistence and also creates an OData service which can do CRUD operations.
Github and Visual Studio and two factor authentication
(Kris van der Mast) At work I mostly make use of the combination of TFS and Visual Studio. I also fiddle around with Git from time to time. As with the latest Visual Studio there’ also Git integration.
#SQLServer – Where does my index live?
(Stuart Ainsworth) Today, I got asked by one of my DBA’s about a recently deployed database that seemed to have a lot of filegroups with only a few tables. He wanted to verify that one of the tables was correctly partition-aligned, as well as learn where all of the indexes for these tables were sto