(Ian Jones) Some database migrations are still performed using export / import (either datapump or the original export / import); for both of these the optimizer statistics are preserved during the export / import but there are a few subtleties to be aware of.
Other News
Scala Basic XML processing
(Nikos Maravitsas) Pretty much everybody knows what XML is: it is a structured, machine-readable text format for representing information that can be easily checked for the “grammaticality” of the tags, attributes, and their relationship to each other (e.g. using DTD’s).
Working with JQuery Templates
(V.N.S Arun) Most often in the web applications you use JQuery to talk to some web service, fetch the data in JSON format and write some messy code to bundle the retrieved data with the HTML tags and add it to the HTML container. JQuery templates allow a developer to write quick, effective and clean
How to Update Data from DB View using ADF BC DoDML Method
(Andrejus Baranovskis) When working with complex use cases, very often we need to bring aggregated data from DB View. ADF BC Entity Object can be based directly on DB View – it works for data read access. Update operation will fail, because we can’t update data through DB View, we can only read.
ASP.NET MVC Authentication – Customizing Authentication and Authorization The Right Way
(Jon Galloway) We’re continuing the ASP.NET Authentication series (yes, I’m doing a few overlapping series, and yes, it’s making me dizzy). The previous post covered Global Authentication and Allow Anonymous. This one continues with a simple tip that can be summed up as follows: keep it simple by ex
What’s New for Mobile Development in ASP.NET MVC 4
(Keith Burnell) For a long time, developers have been looking for the holy grail of tooling that allows a single codebase to reach every platform, and this is more important than ever today. Because of the increasing popularity and variety of mobile smartphones and tablets around the world, it’s cru
DB2 10: Multi Temperature Data Management
(Serge Rielau) A few years ago I sat in a customer briefing and the customer representative described their database philosophy as “pack rats”.
Process Defrag
(Cathy Dumas) As I mentioned in my previous post on processing tabular models, it is a good idea to do a Process Defrag on your tables if you are doing incremental processing. I didn’t really explain why before. Now is the time.
How to Create an Indicator and Gauge Report in SSRS – SQL Server 2008 R2 – Part 1
(Arshad Ali) SQL Server Reporting Services provides several ways to analyze the data; a few of them are creating reports with indicators and Gauges. Indicators are minimal gauges that convey the state of a single data value at a glance and are mostly used to represent the state value of Key Performa
DB2 10, DB2 9, and DB2 V8 Product Publications have been refreshed for April 2012
(Willie Favero) It was close; we’re almost out of April. However, the crew that keeps all that DB2 for z/OS documentation up to date slipped in an April refresh of the product publications just under the wire keeping up the newly established tradition of publishing documentation updates on an almos