(Edwin Sarmiento) You need to provision additional disk subsystem on your SQL Server 2008 Failover Cluster running on Windows Server 2008. However, you are limited by the number of drive letters available to assign to the new disks. How do you do it? Check out this tip to learn more.
Other News
Setting a simple high availability configuration for an Oracle Unified Directory Topology
(Andreea Vaduva) Oracle Unified Directory is the latest full java implementation, of LDAP directories offered by Oracle.
Split root table with T-SQL in SQL Azure Federations
(Roger Jennings) The final step in the Transact-SQL (T-SQL) management sharding process in SQL Azure Federations is to split the federation root member table into five tables that have ID values from 6 to 2.
Parameter Wednesday – DB CFG – HADR_SYNCMODE
(Ember Crooks) Specifies the mode that HADR will run in if otherwise configured and started. The mode determines how primary log writes are synchronized with the standby when the HADR servers are in a peer state.
Global Transaction Identifiers are in MySQL 5.6.5 DMR
(Luís Soares) I am very happy and especially proud to announce that the replication team has delivered global transaction identifiers to MySQL 5.6.5 Development Milestone Release (DMR). It is a very useful, big, impressive and game-changing feature that will make life easier for many of our users.
Generate XML from SQL Server 2008 and update the database from XML
(CrinaT) My tutorial is going to show the code and steps for creating a Windows Forms application that:
Paging Control in C#
(Nilay Joshi) There is no paging support in DataGrid/ListBox in WPF.
Is it Time for ORMs?
SSWUGtv With Stephen Wynkoop On the show today we have Kevin Kline as he shares his thoughts on why Big Data is important Watch the Show Is it Time for ORMs? Object Relational Mapping tools have been around for years, and are still a controversial issue. Coming from a DBA background I find them to be both a friend and […]
New Features in Visual Studio 11
Visual Studio 2011 is the next generation of development IDE from Microsoft (commonly known as vNext). Visual Studio 2011 is also referred to as Visual Studio 11. It provides an integrated development environment that simplifies the tasks of creating, managing, debugging, and deploying application software on Windows environments. That’s right here we are with the next version of Visual Studio...
How to Disable ‘Save Password’ in Oracle SQL Developer
(Jeff Smith) Oracle SQL Developer allows a user to save their passwords for their Oracle database connections. I don’t want to continue the ‘is it bad to save passwords’ debate, but I will share a ‘trick’ for making some of you a bit happier.
