(Danny Arnold) As part of the IBM Information Management team, I’m often asked to describe the advantages of DB2 10.5 over the Oracle offerings (Oracle Database 12c, Oracle Exadata, and other products). There are many reasons to choose DB2 10.5 over Oracle Database from a business value standpoint i
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SSIS – Dropping Partitions in SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) with XMLA and Analysis Services DDL
(Gilbert Quevauvilliers) Below are the steps that we have integrated into SSAS using SSIS so that we can then drop our old SSAS Partitions using SSIS and XMLA.
vCenter Orchestrator: Configure an MS SQL Server database connection
(Viktor van den Berg) This article discusses how to configure a SQL Server database connection to be used by VMware vCenter Orchestrator. Although this task is not too difficult, there are a few pitfalls that might prevent the successful configuration of the database and connecting to it.
FSharp.Data.SqlClient: Seamlessly integrating T-SQL and F# in the same code
(Dmitry Sevastianov) In this post, we will explore the FSharp.Data.SqlClient library, and in particiular the SqlCommandProvider, which allows a new way of using both SQL syntax and F# syntax in data scripting.
Truncate all tables in a SQL Server database
(Dave Bennett) As a DBA I have found many occasions in testing of various SQL Server deployments and scripts where I need to load a database with data from a lower environment or where I need to alter a table that might already have data in it in such a way that I need to first eliminate the data be
High Availability with MySQL Fabric: Part I
(Martin Arrieta and Fernando Ipar) In our previous post, we introduced the MySQL Fabric utility and said we would dig deeper into it. This post is the first part of our test of MySQL Fabric’s High Availability (HA) functionality.
ASP.NET MVC Extensibility with MEF
(Samir Daoudi) The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) has been part of the .NET Framework since .NET 4.0. There are many tutorials across the Web on how to use MEF with Windows Forms, WPF and Windows Store. MEF allows an application to be extended through a set of components that may either be im
WPF Selection Controls – RadioButton
(Richard Carr) The sixty-ninth part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial continues to examine the selection controls of WPF. This article describes the RadioButton, which allows users to select one of several options.
ASP.Net MVC – Hyperlinks – Open the page in a new browser window
(Arun Ramachandran) In the last blog post, we have discussed about DataType & DisplayColumn attributes in ASP.Net MVC. You can read that article here. In this article we will look at how to open the page in a new browser window while clicking on a hyperlink.
On Data Growth
(Craig S. Mullins) Businesses today are gathering and storing more data than ever before. We are said to be living in the “information age,” and data is the capital of the new economy. With this explosion in the amount of data being stored, organizations are relying more than ever on data storage, t