(Ben Nadel) So, last week, I had an itch to create a content delivery network (CDN) for my local development environment. I was able to get something working in a few hours; but it looked junky and I’ve since spent the last few mornings refactoring it into something that feels a little bit more eleg
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How To Create Dynamic Google Column Chart In an Asp.Net MVC Using C# and Javascript
(Pranav Singh) In this article I will show you how you can create dynamic Google column chart in an asp.net MVC application using c#. In this I will show you how you can pass dynamic data to a google chart and how you can prepare data for google chart in JavaScript.
Debugging AngularJS In The Console
(K. Scott Allen) Although Batarang gets a lot of attention, there may come a time when you need to dig a bit deeper into an Angular application, particularly if you are debugging or spelunking someone else’s application and you aren’t familiar with the entire code base.
Essential IT Admin Skills for .NET Developers
(Omar Al Zabir) You have built an awesome .NET application. Now you have to deploy it and scale it to millions of users. How do you choose the right production architecture for 99.99% availability? How do you make sure your website is configured for optimum performance?
Help, I’m Running Out of Disk
Here’s a real world scenario that database administrators face on a regular basis. Your application moves along smoothly; the amount of disk space increased incrementally each day. Then, all off a sudden, your database disk allocation jumps 20% or more with no apparent reason. Do you simply acquire more disk space, or do you find out if perhaps you need […]
What is ANSI_NULLS and why will I be glad when it finally goes away?
(Kenneth Fisher) Recently I wrote about what it means that a value is NULL. Right at the beginning I mentioned ANSI_NULLS and said I would discuss it later. Well it’s later.
Calculating The Value Of Overdue Invoices Using Many-To-Many Relationships in SSAS Multidimensional
(Chris Webb) Recently I had to solve the same, rather complex, problem for three different customers within the space of two weeks, a variation of the ‘events-in-progress’ problem I’ve blogged about a lot in the past. It’s this one: how can you calculate the value of your overdue invoices on any giv
Identifying SQL Server Failover Cluster Shared Drives, Nodes, and Current Ownership
(Tim Ford) A busy database administrator (DBA) can often be blindsided with a request involving a SQL Server instance they’ve not had to look at for a while—or worse yet—an instance that is a suprise in their environment.
Converting XML Schemas to Schematron (#5): Validating your own derived simple types
(Rick Jelliffe) XSD allows you to derive your own simple datatypes by restricting the lexical space or the value space of the type. The rule about derivation by restriction is that everything that is valid against the derived type is also valid against the base type.
Wrapping multiple calls to SaveChanges() in a single transaction
(Bipin Joshi) When you make any additions, modifications and deletions to an Entity Framework DbSet and call SaveChanges(), EF starts a new transaction and executes all the INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE operations inside that newly created transaction. If the call to SaveChanges() succeeds the underlyin