(Denny Cherry) The recent announcement that VMware will be available within Azure makes for a really interesting announcement. It brings a great on-prem solution (VMware) that the admin teams already know and use extensively, into the Azure Cloud.
Other News
Batch Mode Bitmaps in SQL Server
(Paul White) In traditional row-mode execution plans, SQL Server may introduce a Bitmap operator as part of performing early semi join reduction before a parallel hash or merge join.
Working with Avro Big Data in Your Favorite XML Editor
(Erin Cavanaugh) Big Data trends have developers working with XML alongside other data protocols such as JSON and Apache Avro, and XMLSpy supports both of these with dedicated editing views and functionality.
Getting Started with gRPC Client Factory
(Steve Gordon) Regular visitors of my blog will know that I’ve written a lot of posts about the HttpClientFactory feature, available in the Microsoft.Extensions.Http package which simplifies the consumption and proper lifetime usage of HttpClient instances.
Pipeline Pattern in C# (part 2) with TPL Dataflow
(Michael) In the First Part of the series, we talked about the Pipeline Pattern in programming. Also known as the Pipes and Filters design pattern.
Stored Functions and Temporary Tables are Not a Good Fit
(Tibor Korocz) In this blog post, I am going to show why we have to be careful with stored functions in select list, as a single query can cause thousands of queries in the background if we aren’t cautious.
Disable scheduler jobs during deployment
(Jeffrey Kemp) Like most active sites our applications have a healthy pipeline of change requests and bug fixes, and we manage this pipeline by maintaining a steady pace of small releases.
Embedding Transformation Data Pipeline into ML Model using Oracle Data Mining
(brendantierney) I’ve written several blog posts about how to use the DBMS_DATA_MINING.TRANSFORM function to create various data transformations and how to apply these to your data.
Basic Replication — 1 : Introduction
(Hemant K Chitale) Basic Replication, starting with Read Only Snapshots has been available in Oracle since V7. This was doable with the “CREATE SNAPSHOT” command.
SQL SERVER – Performance Impact of Unique Index
(Pinal Dave) Today I am going to share a story of my client who has hired me over 7 times for my most popular consulting service Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check for different servers and situations. In the latest engagement, we had a very interesting situation of Performance Impact o