(Mike Pope) The beta release of ASP.NET Web Pages has been released (for example, as part of the ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta release). There are only a few differences from the December 2011 Developer Preview release. (Details when we’ve got them posted.)
Other News
Implementing WebSockets in WCF 4.5
(Peter Vogel) Web Services have one great virtue: they’re completely interoperable. They also have one great failing: in order to be interoperable, Web Services use a set of technologies that are guaranteed to give you, at best, adequate performance. Fortunately, WCF 4.5 has a solution: support for
Snapshot Isolation Level in SQL Server – What, Why and How – Part 1
(Arshad Ali) Snapshot Isolation level was introduced in SQL Server 2005 and has been available ever since. Snapshot isolation levels improve performance but there are some things to take into consideration when using this feature.
How to deploy SQL Server as a service to your private cloud
(John Joyner) Most IT pros do not enjoy installing Microsoft SQL Server. The SQL setup user interface has more clicks, review screens, and waits between sub-steps than just about any other Microsoft server product!
DB2 10 is here: What’s new? The performance aspect!!!
(samkumar) Hi guys… So DB2 10 is here and is available for download…
DB2 V10.1 – Multi-temperature Storage
(Clara Liu) The quantity of data that is stored in a data warehouse environment is growing at an unprecedented rate.
Readonly database restoration failed
(VidhyaSagar) In one of my project I was working on SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 upgradation. It’s a side by side upgrade so I need to restore the database from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008, in which some of the databases are readonly.
SQL SERVER – Introduction to Discovering XML Data Type Methods – A Primer
(Pinal Dave) The XML data type was first introduced with SQL Server 2005. This data type continues with SQL Server 2008 where expanded XML features are available, most notably is the power of the XQuery language to analyze and query the values contained in your XML instance.
A Simple Pagination Using jQuery
(Sapna) This article will show you how to create pagination using jQuery with as little effort or configuration as possible. A jQuery plugin that comes with a twist; animated page numbers.
Replication Is Bad for MySQL Temp Tables
(Robert Hodges) Experienced MySQL DBAs know that temp tables cause major problems for MySQL replication. It turns out the converse is also true: replication can cause major problems for temporary tables.