(Pinal Dave) Some concepts are so good in SQL Server, they keep on coming back to me one way or another way. After reading my recent blog posts about DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS lots of people wanted to see the demonstration of the same.
Other News
Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Examples
(Richard Lawrence and Paul Rayner) A look at how to explore the behavior of a new user story by collaborating around examples with a cross-functional team.
Exploiting JNDI Injections in Java
(Michael Stepankin) Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) is a Java API that allows clients to discover and look up data and objects via a name.
Brings New Meaning to “Show Your Work”
(Or: Fail Forward Fast) It’s said, and said frequently, that you learn more from your failures than from your successes. Given that a lot of us tend to have plenty of failures to learn from, we can certainly hope that that’s true. However, in order to learn from your failures, you have to know what you did that lead up […]
Sharing Data Between Organisations With Azure Data Share
(Chris Webb) If you’ve ever built a BI solution it’s likely you will have had to integrate third party data, and if that’s the case you will know how painful it often is to get your hands on that data.
Is it just me or does msdb feel a lot like a user database?
(Kenneth Fisher) When you think of system databases, tables, etc there are a number of things you might think of.
Optional Chaining
(David Walsh) For all of the improvements that the JavaScript language has added over the past few years, like the spread operator, default argument values, and arrow functions, there are still a few features I’d love to see implemented.
Writing and Testing Azure Functions with Function Monkey – Part 5 (Authorization)
(James) Part 5 of my series on writing Azure Functions with Function Monkey is now available on YouTube:
How to Update Members of a Collection with LINQ
(Peter Vogel) Sometimes it’s just cool to take a walk through some technology to find all the different ways you can solve a problem — sort of “Fun with the .NET Framework.”
Using The String localeCompare() Method To Implement A Natural Sort In Angular 8.2.0-next.0
(Ben Nadel) The other day, while exploring the Fat-Arrow function support in Lucee 5.3, I used the compare() function to implement a .sort() operation.