(Robert Sheldon) There are some aspects of tables in SQL Server that a lot of people get wrong, purely because they seem so obvious that one feels embarrassed about asking questions.
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MVC 5 with EF 6 in Visual Basic – Implementing Basic CRUD Functionality
(Mike Brind) This tutorial is the second in a series of 12 which teach you how to build MVC 5 applications using Entity Framework for data access and Visual Basic. Here, we look at implementing basic CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) using the scaffolding that ASP.NET MVC provides, as well as c
SQL SERVER – Backup to Azure Blob using SQL Server 2014 Management Studio
(Pinal Dave) Recently, while working on a demo about backup, I realized that in management studio, now there is a new option in the backup screen called a URL. This feature is called as “backup to URL”.
WPF Selection Controls – ComboBox
(Richard Carr) The seventy-second part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial looks further at the WPF selection controls. This article examines the ComboBox control, which combines a text box with an expandable list.
Shadowing Isolate Scope Behaviors In AngularJS
(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, I took my first look at using the Isolate scope within directives in AngularJS. In the 2 years that I’ve been learning about AngularJS, I never took the time to learn about the isolate scope because I never quite understood the use-case.
Image Optimization in Website – Web Essential
(Abhimanyu Kumar Vatsa) In this article you will learn about Image Optimization using Web Essential Visual Studio extension. You will learn how we can optimize individual image by right clicking on image file, how to optimize group of images in the folder, how to optimize image in CSS file and how t
Web API Takeover
Web API is Microsoft’s implementation of RESTful services in the Dot Net platform. It has an interesting history in that it was not originally part of the web services. However, as the product matured it became clear that it needed to be closely aligned with the simplicity of the HTTP protocol, resulting in moving the product development to the web […]
MySQL Fabric: The –update_only option because one size does not fit all
(Alfranio Junior) MySQL Fabric is a distributed framework that has high availability and sharding as targets. It organizes the servers in groups which use the standard MySQL Replication to providing fault-tolerance.
Don’t Forget the Humble DB2 DISPLAY Command
(Craig S. Mullins) Although robust performance and administration tools are probably the best solution for gathering information about your DB2 subsystems and databases, you can gain significant insight into your DB2 environment simply using the DISPLAY command.
Wrap Utility
(Andrew Reid) This is an example using the wrap utility, which allows you to hide stored code. Software suppliers can use it to prevent customers stealing their PL/SQL. First I created a table: