(Andrejus Baranovskis) There is possibility to monitor during runtime consumed heap and permgen memory by JDeveloper IDE process. It will show consumed memory, also allows to force garbage collection. This can be extremely useful when running JDev on less powerful hardware – developer could force ga
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PostgreSQL 9.2 pg_dump enhancements
(Leo Hsu and Regina Obe) One of the things I’m excited about in PostgreSQL 9.2 are the new pg_dump section – pre-data, data, and post-data options and the exclude-table-data option. Andrew Dunstan blogged about this briefly in pg_dump exclude table data. What is also nice is that pgAdmin III 1.16 su
CRUD Operation in ASP.NET Web Applications Using HTTP Handler and jQuery
(Jigar Bagadai) This article will demonstrate, step-by-step, how to create a basic application of CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) Operations using HttpHandler in ASP.NET and Jquery Ajax API. To keep this application simple, I have not covered Validation and any other facets of a well designed ap
SharePoint Information Architecture: The Tools of the Trade
(Steve Pogrebivsky) A fair amount of work goes into the role of a SharePoint Information Architect. And every architect should have his tools right? What does Microsoft provide out of the box, to design, deploy and manage an information architecture in SharePoint?
3 tips for SQL Azure connection perfection
(Richard Mitchell) One of my main annoyances when dealing with SQL Azure is of course the occasional connection problems that communicating to a cloud database entails. If you’re used to programming against a locally hosted SQL Server box this can be quite a change and annoying like you wouldn’t bel
SQL Server 2012 Integration Services – Package and Project Configurations
(Marcin Policht) In our recent articles we have been discussing different methods of facilitating code reusability in SQL Server 2012 Integration Services. So far, we have demonstrated how to leverage variables (which have been available in earlier versions of the product) as well as newly introduce
Flexibility When Waiting on Locks
(Kevin Kline) Speaking at a recent SQL Saturday, an attendee in one of my sessions wanted to know how they could more flexibly react to locks on their application than to wait for blocks to occur and then kill the SPID at the head of the blocking chain.
Trying Out the OData/WCF Data Services Upgrades
(David Ramel) Microsoft recently updated the Open Data Protocol (OData) and WCF Data Services framework and just last week provided some demo services so data developers can try out the new features.
SQL SERVER – SmallDateTime and Precision – A Continuous Confusion
(Pinal Dave) Some kinds of confusion never go away. Here is one of the ancient confusing things in SQL. The precision of the SmallDateTime is one concept that confuses a lot of people, proven by the many messages I receive everyday relating to this subject.
Modeling of event-based offerings in WebSphere Commerce
(Pavan Kini and Siddharth C. Ravikanthrao) This article describes the various subscription models in WebSphere Commerce and their characteristics that define them. It also covers how to extend the subscription capabilities to model other types of subscription, including a case study of a sample even