(Niels Gorter) Performance tuning is one of the things that is often left behind during development. Project leaders and business owners seem to think it happens on its own or just push it to the background when the deadline comes close. Another thing that doesn’t help is that performance tuning for
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What A Performance!
(David Fitzjarrell) Performance is one of the big watchwords in the IT industry; nowhere is it more often used than in the database arena, and it’s usually not a good sign. End users know nothing, really, of the inner workings of the database yet they are the first to point the ‘finger of blame’ at
Configure shared storage for #em12c Business Intelligence Publisher (BIP)
(Bobby Curtis) Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 4 has a lot of new features; however, I quickly want to focus on a feature that has been in OEM12c for awhile. This feature is Business Intelligence Publisher (BIP). BIP has been a part of OEM12c since it was initially released; at first it was
SQL SERVER – SSMS: Memory Consumption Report
(Pinal Dave) The next in line in this series of reports is the “Memory Consumption” Report from SQL Server Management Studio. This is a goldmine of a report in my humble opinion and lesser respected.
How to Automate IIS 7 Configuration with .NET
(Patrick Steele) Are you tired of manually configuring IIS sites (adding Web sites, application pools, virtual directories and so on)? Use C# and the Microsoft.Web.Administration Namespace to simplify your life (or at least IIS configuration).
Using ASP.NET Identity with Razor Web Pages
(Mike Brind) ASP.NET Identity is the new membership system for ASP.NET applications and is the recommended system for new MVC 5 and Web Forms projects. Among other things, it moves membership away from being dependent on System.Web, which is the general direction that the next version of ASP.NET is
Can You Implement the Open/Closed Principle in SQL?
Have you ever tried applying the Open/Closed principle to SQL Server stored procedures or functions? Since SQL Server is not an object oriented language it can be difficult to achieve, and may not be worth the effort. The point of the Open/Closed principle is to assure that existing code continues to work as you extend your code for newer behavior. […]
Introduction to Basic and HA SharePoint Server Farms in Microsoft Azure IaaS
(Benjamin Athawes) On 9th July 2014, Microsoft published an article titled Microsoft Azure Continues to Deliver Rapid Innovation in the Cloud . Amongst other announcements, that article introduced the idea of templates within Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for multi-machine/tier applicatio
Working with XSL
(girlprogrammer) XSL transformation is quick, easy and the time taken to transform documents of one type to another becomes effortless with XSL as compared to any other server side or client side means.
Always Drop and Create Local Database .NET Backend for Azure Mobile Services
(Jeff Sanders) In my early testing I wanted to always seed my Local Database. By default the db was only dropped and reseeded if you changed the models. There is a simple code change to do this.