(Thomas LaRock) I’ve written before about how much I love looking for outliers. One example of this can be found in the post I did on the sysjobhistory table. Recently I was asked to put together some code to find out which backups were “running long”.
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ASP.NET MVC Performance Profiling
(Adrian Hills) Building up a profile of how a web application functions, all the database interactions that take place and where the server-side time is spent during a request can be a challenging task when you are new to an existing codebase. If you’re trying to address the generic/non-specific "we
Understanding asynchronous programming in ASP.NET
(Li Chen) I recently posted about asynchronous programing patterns in .NET. Like .net framework, ASP.NET has supported asynchronous programming since 1.x. C# and VB.NET introduced the new async and await keywords in the upcoming Visual Studio 11. This is also supported in the upcoming ASP.NET 4.5. O
XQuery Dynamic Order By
(Jake Trent) When ordering a sequence of items in XQuery, sometimes it’s desirable to be able to decide the order based on a parameter value (something dynamic). XQuery doesn’t look extremely elegant when it comes to this feature, but depending on exactly what you want, you should be able to get the
A tutorial on how to use JSTL xml tags and XSLT documents
There are definitely many ways to parse an xml document and display the data in a jsp.In this tutorial we will se how to transform an xml document to html format using an XSLT document and JSTL XML tags.
Sigh. Writing XML DOM code
(John Guin) I had to create a quick tool last week that had the simple task of parsing through an XML file and getting a set of atrributes from any node that had a specific value for a different attribute. This is vaguely the equivalent of writing down the license plate numbers of all pickups in a p
Handling SSRS Multi-Valued Parameters in DAX Queries
(Chris Webb) Last year I blogged about using DAX queries inside SSRS reports but one topic I didn’t touch on was how to handle parameters. Marco wrote a post on using parameters in DAX earlier this year but didn’t cover how to handle multi-valued parameters in SSRS, so I thought I’d write a post to
DB2 Developers Guide 6th Edition
(Troy Coleman) Are you new to DB2 for z/OS and looking for that ONE document that holds all the information you’d ever need to know about DB2 for z/OS? Are you an experienced DB2 for z/OS professional who wants to take advantage of new DB2 10 features?
The DB2Night Show #83: DB2 pureScale – WHAT EVERY DBA NEEDS to KNOW!
(Scott Hayes) WOW! I think Maria’s talk today was one of the best on DB2 pureScale that I’ve ever seen. Maria covered everything important – from the hardware required, to installation commands and advice, configuration, monitoring, and more.
Sorting and Filtering By Model-Based LOV Display Value
(Steven Davelaar) If you use a model-based LOV and you use display type “choice”, then ADF nicely displays the display value, even if the table is read-only. In the screen shot below, you see the RegionName attribute displayed instead of the RegionId. This is accomplished by the model-based LOV, I d