(Erin Cavanaugh) Sure, you’ve been reading a lot about e-books in the news lately. But let’s take a moment to step back from the controversy and take a look at the technology behind these digital publications. There are various formats used to create e-books, but one of the most popular is the stand
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Travel and Security Concepts
(Henrik Loeser) When I am teaching a DB2 class, or data management in general, security is always on the agenda. Authentication and authorization are basic terms, but often they are mixed up. That is the moment when I bring the following analogy.
Extract tar files to current directory
(Michael T. Dinh) I have a requirement to extract tar files residing in another directory to current directory, instead of copying tar files from the source to current directory, extracting tar files, and deleting tar files.
Strange ORA-14404, or not?
(Yasin Baskan) I was trying to drop a tablespace which I know there were no segments in it. A simple query from dba_segments returns no rows which means there are no segments allocated in this tablespace. But strangely I got this:
On Plan Stability
(Carlos Sierra) I was recently working a case of plan stability on 10g. I looked at the SQL text and noticed it had no binds. So it was easy to rule out typical combination of predicates with binds, on columns with histograms, which is known to cause plan instability on 10g (and 9i). 11g does a bett
ASP.NET MVC 4 NUnit template
(Geoff Hudik) We are using ASP.NET MVC 4 beta on a new project as it should be out of beta before we go live. Even if not, they do have a Go Live license option. Each time I start using a new version of ASP.NET MVC and check the “Create a unit test project” checkbox, I always let out a […]
The Magic of Visual Studio 11 Page Inspector
(Sumit Maitra) We take a closer look at Visual Studio 11’s new Page Inspector functionality that helps developers debug their web UI from inside Visual Studio without having to ‘Alt-Tab’ between Browser and Visual Studio.
User Defined Server Role on SQL Server 2012
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) Prior to Microsoft SQL Server 2012, we had no easy a way to create a server level role and assign permissions to it. We could only add a login as member to existing server roles or give server level permissions individually, one by one, to a login. This changed in SQL Serve
SQL SERVER – Thinking about Deprecated, Discontinued Features and Breaking Changes while Upgrading to SQL Server 2012
(Nakul Vachhrajani) Those who have been following my blogs would be aware that I am recently running a series on the database engine features that have been deprecated in Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Based on the response that I have received, I was quite surprised to know that most of the audience fo
APAR Friday: HIPER that enhances the space map search algorithm
(Willie Favero) Title says it all. Without this APAR, DB2 can spend a tremendous amount of time searching index space maps for free space an an effort to avoid extending the page set.