(Willie Favero) If you haven’t, you really should. It’s changed considerably over the years becoming quite the analytics tool. However, rather than me explaining what makes QMF interesting today, how about hearing it from someone who lives QMF……. Mike Biere, IBM Marketing Manager for DW and Busin
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SQL SERVER – Renaming Index – Index Naming Conventions
(Pinal Dave) If you are regular reader of this blog, you must be aware of that there are two kinds of blog posts 1) I share what I learn recently 2) I share what I learn and request your participation. Today’s blog post is where I need your opinion to make this blog post a good reference for future.
MySQL: Overview of the ALTER TABLE Statement
(wubayou) This tutorial will show you how you can use the ALTER TABLE statement to tweak table structures in MySQL.
The Good Side of Metro Design
SSWUGtv – SQL Server 2012 With Stephen Wynkoop In todays edition Steve interviews Gareth Swanepoel. Gareth talks about SQL Server 2012, extended events wizard and interface – how to performance tune, and more. Watch the Show The Good Side of Metro Design Now that I have spent some time with the things I don’t like about the Metro Style Design […]
SQL Server BI for the SMB: Prepackaged BI Tools vs. Do-It-Yourself
(Don Jones) If you’re a small- to medium-sized business (SMB), the options for adding business intelligence (BI) to your environment are expanding rapidly. Years of investment and development by massive enterprises have made key SQL Server BI technologies more understood and less expensive, finally
Process Atom 1.0 with XSLT
(Uche Ogbuji) Atom 1.0 is the emerging Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard for Web feeds — information updates on Web site contents. Since Atom is an XML format, XSLT is a powerful tool for processing it.
Show Me the Way—with the innovator behind Statspack and AWR
(Iggy Fernandez) Graham Wood has been working with Oracle Database for 25 years. He is currently a product manager for the Oracle RDBMS based in Redwood Shores, Calif. He has architected and tuned some of the largest Oracle databases, and has presented around the world on Oracle performance–related
DB2 Version 10
(Ember Crooks) There are certainly more authoritative souces on 10 than me, but having just come from the conference and learned at least enough to get certified, I thought I’d share. They seem to be pushing the big data/data warehousing angle, which I find a bit annoying as a OLTP DBA, because I th
DB2 10 for zOS Migration: More Tips from the IDUG Conference
(Dave Beulke) The International DB2 User Group (IDUG) conference was a great success with more attendees than the past few years and great DB2 technical educational information. As I talked about during the week through Twitter, and in my blog last week, IDUG had many technical presentations, good
Using the Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) in Visual Studio
(V.N.S Arun) Test Template Transformation Toolkit (T4 templates) was introduced with Visual Studio 2005 as a separate installer; later it was provided out of the box with Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 installations. T4 templates can be used to generate source code or any kind of text content (.txt, .x