(AlexTatiyants) In spite of some notable opposition, NoSQL has been all the rage lately. In particular, JSON-oriented document stores like Mongo and Couch have really become the darlings of the web application crowd.
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Installation and Verification of Remote Blob Storage (RBS) on SharePoint 2010
(Veena Sarda) Remote Blob Storage (RBS) facilitates storage of BLOB data outside the SQL Server Content Database onto the file system by using the FILESTREAM feature of SQL Server 2008. The advantages of storing BLOBs on the file system are:
Introducing InfoSphere Streams 2.0 features, Part 2: Using collections
(Chris Howard) With the introduction of IBM InfoSphere® Streams 2.0 and the Streams processing language (SPL), developers gained access to two new collection types: set and map. This article describes these three collection types and how to exploit them as part of a native SPL application. You will
CLR Capability in SQL
SSWUGtv With Stephen Wynkoop In todays issue of SSWUGtv Steve interviews Dan Clark as he shares his thoughts bout self-service BI. Is PowerPivt the tool you should be using? Find the answers here on this edition of SSWUGtv. Watch the Show CLR Capability in SQL We have been discussing the value of the CLR in SQL Server for the last […]
Should Programs be separated from Data?
SSWUGtv with Stephen Wynkoop Can your MySQL database scale? If not, what are your options? Do you need to purchase a bigger machine? Do you need to purchase a sharding wrapper, or write your own data broker allowing your databases to shard? Instead, you now have the option to take advantage of the Cloud Database As a Service from Xeround. […]
SOA Infra starting problems
(Martien van den Akker) I’m helping my new customer in migrating an Oracle Forms application to a new 11g databased environment. Since the application is using Oracle Workflow the transition includes replacing Workflow with BPEL11g. So a SoaSuite installation is needed. The installation of the devel
Remember date contains time
(Scott Wesley) This is one thing I regularly mention to trainees, and recently I fell for the problem myself!
Finding Database Network Abusers with Netstat
(James Koopmann) DBAs are often faced with the encompassing task of trying to reduce the use of system resources. In doing so, DBAs have the ominous task of having to relate the consumption of system resources by a database to the available resources on the database server it runs on. Sometimes this
Understanding RDF serialisation formats
(Ric Roberts) A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an Introduction To RDF. In that article, we discussed expressing a RDF single triple (which defined the location of my blog) as a blob and line diagram. But what if we want to describe more than one aspect of a resource?… or if we want to model the relati
Using Python Tools for Visual Studio Part 2
(Paul Ferrill) In the first part of this series we looked at installing the latest version of the Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) using the free Visual Studio Integrated Shell along with the free Enthought Python Distribution. In this installment we’ll look at using PTVS and the Pyvot add-in t