(Erica Sadun) Although it’s simple to create movies using AVFoundation, many developers seem to use this feature solely to combine screen shots or scrape camera feeds.
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SQL SERVER – How to Get SQL Server Restart Notification?
(Pinal Dave) Few days back my friend called me to know if there is any tool which can be used to get restart notification about SQL in their environment. I told that SQL Server can do it by itself with some configurations. He was happy and surprised to know that he need not spend any extra money.
WPF Selection Controls – ListBox
(Richard Carr) The seventieth part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial looks at another of the WPF selection controls. This article examines the ListBox, which allows users to select from a large number of options.
SQL Server Installation: Are Shared components getting upgraded with Side-by-side Upgrade?
(Dinesh Priyankara) As you know, some of the components such as Management Studio (SSMS) and Configuration Manager are shared components of SQL Server instances and they are upgraded when an in-place upgrade is performed. However, they are not supposed to get upgraded with Side-by-side upgrade unles
Missing Indexes Correlated Against Execution Costs and Counts
(Michael K. Campbell) Here’s a query that every DBA should have in their toolbox.
Violation of Primary Key constraint. Cannot insert duplicate key in object error when using Item List
(David Musgrave) Today, I have another blog post based on a recent support case.
SQL Server Maintenance Plans Reporting and Logging
(Brady Upton) Maintenance Plans are very common in a SQL Server environment. They can be used for various things and sometimes makes life easier for a DBA to quickly create a plan for backups, index maintenance, or to run a quick integrity check. One feature that is often overlooked is the maintenan
How To Refactor for Dependency Injection, Part 1: Cleaning Up
(Ondrej Balas) Dependency Injection is a programming paradigm that has recently been gaining considerable popularity within the Microsoft .NET Framework community.
Database auditing alternatives for MySQL
(Sergei Glushchenko) Database auditing is the monitoring of selected actions of database users. It doesn’t protect the database in case privileges are set incorrectly, but it can help the administrator detect mistakes.
DB2 10 for z/OS withdrawn from marketing date announced
(Willie Favero) In today’s IBM announcements, it was announced that as of July 6, 2015 (13 months from now) the following three products…