(Audrey and Julie) The BimlScript methods of Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) will only work (ie access SQL metadata) with SQL Server versions 2005 and higher. This article briefly tells the story of how Innovative Architects worked around this limitation for one of our projects and succ
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Deny vs Revoke
(Kenneth Fisher) Quick quiz. Which of these two commands is the opposite of GRANT?
SQL SERVER – SSMS: Top Queries by CPU and IO
(Pinal Dave) My fascination for computers started way back when I was about to get into highschool. My father once took me to his office (was for some family day if I remember correctly) and it was fun to watch the PC.
WPF Media Controls – MediaElement – Playing Media
(Richard Carr) The eighty-fifth part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial begins to look at the MediaElement control. This control allows the playing of a wide range of media, including audio and video.
Parsing Http Time Strings With ParseDateTime() In ColdFusion
(Ben Nadel) This is a super minor post; but, last week, when I was working on Sticky CDN, I remembered that the parseDateTime() function, in ColdFusion, could parse the date/time strings commonly used in HTTP headers. parseDateTime() won’t take the timezone information into account; but, it will par
Using Visual Studio AutoRecover to Avoid Losing Your Work (and your Mind)
(Rion Williams) If you have ever worked in an environment that may not have been the most reliable or you are simply a worry-wart when it comes to possible data loss, then this might be for you.
How To Refactor for Dependency Injection, Part 3: Larger Applications
(Ondrej Balas) Dependency injection is a programming paradigm that enables you to write much more maintainable code by promoting loose coupling of objects.
Should You Learn Master Data Management?
No matter if you intentionally shard data or simply have multiple packsystems for managing your business it is highly probably that you have multiple copies of the same information. Your accounting system has accounts payable and accounts receivable, each most likely having customer or vendor information. You could also have your sales system, or warehousing system with overlapping data. Perhaps […]
SSWUGtv: Today Laura Rose gives tips on how to get a great reference.
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The BINARY and VARBINARY data types
(pgulutzan) MySQL’s support of the BINARY and VARBINARY data type is good, and the BINARY and VARBINARY data types are good things. And now the details. What applies here for MySQL applies for MariaDB as well.