(Gene Vayngrib) US Government has just issued a new Open Data initiative and we would like to offer 3 laws of open data, which may help to make this initiative a success.
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SharePoint: Preventing Content Type Changes
(Mike Smith) There are many good reasons to use Content Types… if you can get people to use them, and then leave them alone.
Row Number Transformation
(Darren Green) The Row Number Transformation calculates a row number for each row, and adds this as a new output column to the data flow. The column number is a sequential number, based on a seed value. Each row receives the next number in the sequence, based on the defined increment value.
HugePages – Overhead of Not Using
(Dominic Brooks) I’ve read a fair bit about HugePages and their importance especially for Oracle databases with large SGAs and a large number of dedicated connections.
Plan stability through Upgrade to 11G-Why is my plan changed?-Auto Adjusted Dynamic Sampling
(Coskan Gundogar) Todays story is about, how dynamic sampling can effect your plan stability during upgrade and how you can recover from it as long as you know what your are doing.
If You’ve Got DB2 for z/OS Product Requirements, This is your Online Community
(Robert Catterall) Who makes DB2 for z/OS a great database management system? Well, the IBM DB2 developers, of course. But who else? You, that’s who. You, the users of DB2 for z/OS, have provided IBM with a steady stream of enhancement requests since the product was introduced in 1983.
DataStage migration part2
(Lohith) I have given the environment details for the migration. Now will move to the technical part of the migration.
Result Cache Functions
(Michael McLaughlin) I finally got around to cleaning up old contact me messages. One of the messages raises a question about RESULT_CACHE functions. The writer wanted an example implementing both a standalone schema and package RESULT_CACHE function.
Working with Observable Collections in Silverlight
(Joydip Kanjilal) Observable Collections are great to preserve the latest data in data controls without having to rebind data to the data controls. In this article we will explore how we can work with Observable Collections in Silverlight 5.
Creating A Generic Lambda-Based IComparer
(Richard Carr) Several standard .NET framework classes perform comparisons of values or objects and allow those comparisons to be controlled using an IComparer implementation. This article describes a generic comparer that obtains results using lambda expressions.