(Alok Shriram) The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) was designed to give Microsoft .NET Framework developers an easy way to build loosely coupled applications. The primary focus of MEF in version 1 was extensibility, such that an application developer could expose certain extension points to th
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Use SQL-like languages for the MapReduce framework
(Sherif Sakr) Select the most suitable MapReduce implementation for large scale data analysis jobs based on your skills, preferences, and requirements. MapReduce is a simple and powerful programming model that enables the easy development of scalable parallel applications to process vast amounts of
How to Connect to a SQL Server Named Instance
(K. Brian Kelley) My network admins have tightened down the network and while we were once able to connect to our named instances via MySQLServerMyNamedInstance, we’re now only able to connect if we specify the port. What happened and what do I need to tell them to fix the issue?
A Little Humility Helps
SSWUGtv News With Stephen Wynkoop LinkedIn, eHarmony what it means for DBAs, interview tips, Google and more news from the week. Watch the Show A Little Humility Helps Friday I responded to a question from an individual preparing to graduate from training in computer science, asking what is important to build a career. In my response I emphasized the need […]
Parsing XML with Python using lxml.objectify
(Mike) A couple years ago I started a series of articles on XML parsing. I covered lxml’s etree and Python’s included minidom XML parsing library. For whatever reason I didn’t notice lxml’s objectify sub-package, but I saw it recently and decided I should check it out.
Using SQL Developer to Debug your Anonymous PL/SQL Blocks
(Jeff Smith) Everyone knows that SQL Developer has a PL/SQL debugger – check!
DB2 10.1 New Features
(Dean Compher) DB2 v10.1 became available on 30 April 2012 and has TON of new features and improvements, some of which you can begin taking advantage of without doing anything other than upgrading your database. As with the past “features” articles, this is a summary of the new features in v10.1 th
Getting rid of huge ibdata file, no dump required
(Shlomi Noach) You have been told (guilty as charged), that the only way to get rid of the huge InnoDB tablespace file (commonly named ibdata1), when moving to innodb_file_per_table, is to do a logical dump of your data, completely erase everything, then import the dump.
Working With Drives and Directories in ASP.NET
(Mahak Gupta) In this article we will discuss how to interact with the File System, Drives and Directories and how we get the path details. The System.IO namespace is used to work with files and directories of ASP.Net. Here we use the DriveInfo class of the System.IO namespace. It provides extended
LINQ to SqlDataReader
(Akram El Assas) SqlDataReader provides a way of reading a forward-only stream of rows from a SQL Server database. SqlDataReader loads only one record in memory at a time rather than an entire result. SqlDataAdapter loads the entire result in memory at a time.