(Ben Nadel) As of ColdFusion 10, the “Query” attribute of the CFLoop tag can now be dynamic. That is, it can refer to a dynamic expression rather than a static name (string). At first, this seems like a really cool idea – one that you’ve probably even wanted over the years; but, don’t do it.
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SharePoint Replication – The Right Way to Save Time, Money and Possibly Lives
(Sean O’Leary) Picture this: you’re sitting in your office, attempting to close a big deal with a potential client when the power goes out, the phone is dead and you’ve completely lost contact. There goes that deal, and it could have been your big break!
Choosing a MySQL package
(Maciej Dobrzanski) As with any open source software, anyone can download MySQL sources, build binaries for some platforms and distribute their own packages. So we have the official ones from Oracle, MariaDB, and Percona – the makers of MySQL and its forks respectively.
Get started now with the Informix TimeSeries solution
(Kishore Chinda and Ravi Vijay) IBM Informix provides native support for handling time series data. The TimeSeries data type present in IBM Informix helps to reduce the cost of storage as well as helping to increase performance when you select and load large amounts of time series data.
SQL Server Reporting Services Image Source Report Options
(Sherlee Dizon) Companies often need to generate reports and forms from scanned images and various government supplied formats. Proper knowledge of how to incorporate images in a report is a must. I am new to SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (SSRS) and Business Intelligence Development Studio and
Tuples ? Dot Net 4 Generic Classes
Featured Article(s) Troubleshooting problems with SQL Server 2008 R2 Merge Replication In this article, Alexander Chigrik explains some problems that you can have when you work with SQL Server 2008 R2 merge replication. Featured White Paper(s) All-At-Once Operations Written by Itzik Ben-Gan with SolidQ SQL supports a concept called all-at-onc… (read more) Tuples – Dot Net 4 Generic Classes I […]
Key Performance Indicators
SSWUGtv With Stephen Wynkoop What’s new in SQL Server 2012? On the show today, Michael Crump talks about developing with #sql2012. As always there will be some great tips and much more. Watch the Show Key Performance Indicators Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) have been used broadly to track the health of a business and the activities that contribute to that […]
Abusing XML literals in VB.NET
(Per) One of the things I do like about VB.NET is XML literals. Given that XML is so common, it’s really a great idea! Here’s a tiny example:
Wrong number or types of arguments to what?!
(Scott Wesley) Have you ever received the following error?
Tracing PL/SQL executions
(Jay Stanley) Here’s a hypothetical problem: you are developing a PL/SQL application, that is in production. Unfortunately, in production the code is failing somehow, and you can’t figure out where or why. You’re unable to reproduce the problem in your development environment. The production server