(Jon Burchel) SSAS security roles are additive – that is, a user gets permission to access data allowed in any role to which the user belongs, even if another role membership for the same user does not allow access to the same data. This can cause confusion in some circumstances, and has been incorr
Other News
SQL Server Management Studio’s Ugly ANSI_PADDING Bug
(Michael K. Campbell) It’s always a bit hard to define what exactly constitutes a bug.
Neural Network Weight Decay and Restriction
(James McCaffrey) Weight decay and weight restriction are two closely related, optional techniques that can be used when training a neural network. This article explains exactly what weight decay and weight restriction are, and how to use them with an existing neural network application or implement
Automate Conversion to Native SQL Procedures
(Nate Murphy) Today, organizations can modernize their enterprise online transaction processing (OLTP) environments and align them well with the increased activity of remote access transactions activity. They can accomplish this alignment by migrating external SQL procedures to native SQL procedures
DB2 for i 7.2 Features And Fun: Part 2
(Michael Sansoterra) In the first tip of this series, I covered three new features introduced in DB2 for i 7.2: ALTER TRIGGER, TRUNCATE TABLE, and the ability to vary the fractional precision of a TIMESTAMP column. This tip continues the adventure by exploring a few more new features in IBM i 7.2 (i
Processing and content analysis of various document types using MapReduce and InfoSphere BigInsights
(Sajad Izadi, Benjamin G. Leonhardi and Piotr Pruski) Businesses often need to analyze large numbers of documents of various file types. Apache Tika is a free open source library that extracts text contents from a variety of document formats, such as Microsoft® Word, RTF, and PDF
Implementation Of Constructor in Java
(Gaurav Katara) A constructor is a special type of method of a class that initializes the object of that type. It is an instance method that usually has the same name as the class.
Plan Instability
(Dominic Brooks) There seems to me to be a relatively simple choice.
Oracle SQL Developer Around the World
(Jeff Smith) Oracle SQL Developer is being used around the world. I see evidence of this in Indonesian tweets, OTN forum questions written in Spanish, talking to people at the larger tech conferences, and looking at our website Google Analytics.
Getting started Part 2 – More queries
(Roger Ford) We will be looking at Oracle Text queries in a bit more detail. We’ll assume you’ve set up the QUICKSTART table as used in part one.