(Henrik Loeser) Many of the IBM Cloud services have a REST API, an overview of REST APIs is here in the IBM Cloud docs. Recently, I realized that I had not yet tried the Db2 on Cloud API and the API for Db2 Warehouse on Cloud.
Other News
Exception handling
(Ashkrit Sharma) In this post i will share how error handling is done and what options we have.Error handling is complex topic 🙂
Format the Currency for a Culture in C#
(Srinath M S) Use the CultureInfo class to format values based on a culture.
Programmatically Opening Windows Terminal in a Specific Folder
(Rick Strahl) I’ve been using Windows Terminal for a while now since it was announced and made available in the Windows Store a few months back.
How to Do Neural Network Glorot Initialization Using Python
(James McCaffrey) In this article I explain what neural network Glorot initialization is and why it’s the default technique for weight initialization.
Fixing MySQL 1045 Error: Access Denied
(Carlos Tutte and marcos.albe) During our work in support, we see this again and again: “I try to connect to MySQL and am getting a 1045 error”, and most times it comes accompanied with “…but I am sure my user and password are OK”.
GoLang: Querying records from Oracle Database using goracle
(brendantierney) Continuing my series of blog posts on using Go Lang with Oracle, in this blog I’ll look at how to setup a query, run the query and parse the query results.
Swapping (paging) for DBAs
(savvinov) Classic symptoms of memory pressure (free physical memory running low + swapping) are often more difficult to interpret than they seem, especially on modern enterprise grade servers.
Database Migration from non-CDB to PDB – The Minimal Downtime Challenge
(Mike.Dietrich) There are several pitfalls when you plugin a non-CDB into a CDB environment. I’d like to highlight some of them – and show you potential workarounds as well.
SQL SERVER – Changing Max Worker Count for Performance
(Pinal Dave) Earlier this week, I wrote a blog post about SQL SERVER – Best Value for Max Worker Count, after reading this blog post, I got quite a lots of questions via email, LinkedIn and on Twitter to share my when it is appropriate to change Max Worker Count.