(Joe Sack) Now that SQL Server 2012 is released, we can expect to start seeing new and unfamiliar wait types appear in the output of sys.dm_os_wait_stats, sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks and extended event sessions. For those unfamiliar with wait types and wait statistics, the key concept to understand is t
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Parsing Name of Database Object Using System Function in SQL Server
(Lajapathy Arun) Returns the specified part of an object name. The parts of an object that can be retrieved are the object name, owner name, database name, and server name.
Load management Techniques for MySQL
(Peter Zaitsev) One of the very frequent cases with performance problems with MySQL is what they happen every so often or certain times. Investigating them we find out what the cause is some batch jobs, reports and other non response time critical activities are overloading the system causing user e
Parsing and interpreting Xsd using Linq
(CodingBruce) For all it’s verbosity, slow-parsing and ambiguous data layout… Xml is still one of just a few openly enforceable data transport mechanisms we have in our coders tool chest. What I’m talking about is Xsd or Xml Schema. Schema interpreting has traditionally been a black art.
Manage application services with virtual application patterns
(Bobby McChesney, Joseph Bohn and James Kochuba) In the IBM PureApplication System environment, a virtual application pattern is the critical element that allows a user to rapidly set up and manage cloud application infrastructure; a virtual application pattern describes an application, and employs
Metro Style Apps?is the Mouse Out?
Metro Style Apps…is the Mouse Out? Dana brings me down to earth with her insight into keyboard commands for later versions of Office. For example, when reviewing my understanding of the new Metro Style design principles, I used the changes in Office as an example of making work harder. I have been using Microsoft Excel since 1985….yes, ’85. It was […]
Exposing Custom event from custom control
(pranay) In this post I m going to discuss about registering custom event in custom control. Recently In my project I have created user control it’s consist of one label control and dropdown box. This user control is common control which can be used in whole project to avoid writing repeated code fo
GV$ Function
(Martin Nash) I really thought I’d blogged about this before, but it appears not!
Pass an encoded XML/HTML content in the form of Byte Array from one page to another
(Niladri.Biswas) In this article we will look into “how to pass an encoded XML/HTML content as Byte Array from one page to another using a query string”
SharePoint: Advantages and Disadvantages of the Client Object Model
(SC Vinod) I have implemented the Client Object Model (COM) extensively in Silverlight as well as in ECMAScript. You may love or hate COM but you cannot ignore it if you are a SharePoint 2010 developer.