(Sheeri K. Cabral) Over the weekend I came across an extremely curious issue with MySQL. It seemed that no matter how many times I tried to set the wait_timeout, it would always show the value of interactive_timeout. I even tried restarting mysql, to no avail.
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SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow Advanced Settings
(Kim Frehe) I’ve recently spent a lot of time on SharePoint 2010 workflows. I made a ton of errors and learned a lot about the new Task Process in 2010. It may look easy, but there are a lot of things that can go wrong.
A matter of time: Temporal data management in DB2 10
(Cynthia M. Saracco, Matthias Nicola and Lenisha Gandhi) New IBM DB2 temporal data management technology enables companies to track and query historical, current, and future conditions in a straightforward and efficient manner. The result is a simpler way to implement auditing and compliance initiat
SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) Performance Comparison
(Ben Snaidero) Every new release of SQL Server gives us new features that will hopefully improve our database system in some way. Data security has been a hot topic over the last few years and one of the new features introduced in SQL Server 2008, Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), addresses this to
JavaScript – Not You’re Fathers Scripting Engine
Featured Article(s) System Health Session Dashboard – Error Summary Report In the first post of this series, I had talked about displaying the events reported by the system health session extended session on SQL Server 2008 versions and higher. The next set of reports will show the errors which by the error_reported extended event. Featured White Paper(s) Encryption & Key […]
SSWUGtv: Devin Knight – SQL Server 2012, Self-Service Business Intelligence – including information about PowerView.
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JavaScript Comes of Age
JavaScript Comes of Age Yesterday I introduced patterns in JavaScript. While looking further into JavaScript I came across node.js. Node.js is a “Platform built on Chrome’s JavaScript RunTime”. The thing that caught my attention about Node.js is the ability to write code that may run on the server or in the client browser in the same language. Now there are […]
Creating a JSONP Formatter for ASP.NET Web API
(Rick Strahl) Out of the box ASP.NET WebAPI does not include a JSONP formatter, but it’s actually very easy to create a custom formatter that implements this functionality.
Fluent Interfaces
(Richard Carr) Sometimes the public interfaces of object-oriented libraries lead to complex code that can be difficult to quickly understand. Fluent interfaces change the way that classes are written in order to help developers create code that mirrors natural language.
Fluent Interface Design in .NET
(Eric Vogel) One way to clean up an existing API is to provide a fluent interface to it. The goal of a fluent interface is to simplify the consumption of your API by making it more readable and discoverable.