(Michael J. Swart) I think most of you have all been here before. You want to know the results of a query, but you have to get it from a colleague through email or some other proxy:
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Generating Charts and Drawings in SQL Server Management Studio
(Anthony Zanevsky, Andrew Zanevsky and Katrin Zanevsky) The monochrome text output that T-SQL provides by default isn’t very impressive, especially to business analysts and other end users. Although you can use the geometry data type introduced in SQL Server 2008 to add images and colors to T-SQL ou
Applying a function in the context of a different database
(robwhitby) As far as I know there are two ways to access a different database from xquery – xdmp:eval and xdmp:invoke, both of which take an options node specifying the database context.
XML Query Composition in Practice
(Matija Lah) XML composition using XML Query is not what you might call a popular subject, not even a frequently discussed one; well, at least as far as SQL Server is concerned. In this blog, I have discussed XML retrieval on numerous occasions, I have also touched SQL Server XML performance charact
What’s the difference between ‘eq’ and ‘=’?
I recently taught my first course for MarkLogic University, and one of the XQuery-related questions that came up more than once was this: Why do XQuery and XSLT have more than one operator for each comparison?
Access Path Management: Some new, some old
(Willie Favero) Or should I use the term plan management, or maybe package management, plan stability, or even package stability? This feature has more names than a spy in an Ian Fleming novel. Of course, it doesn’t matter what you call it, the bottom line is this process has to be one of the coo
Three Important Java Performance Best Practices
(Dave Beulke) These days Java systems have grown within the corporate software landscape because they provide a flexible language for running programs on all types of platforms. Unfortunately, the Java language, like any software language, can suffer from bad design, coding and performance.
Writing Concurrent Applications Using F# Agents
(Tomas Petricek) Concurrent applications are applications that perform multiple tasks at the same time and handle the interaction between these tasks. Examples of concurrent applications include rich user interfaces, servers that expose functionality via network, cloud-based applications or trading
Reflecting Constructor Information
(Richard Carr) The seventh part of the Reflection tutorial completes the series of articles that describes the reflection of the individual member types for classes and structures. This article describes the reflection of the available information for constructors.
Custom Slider Value Display with jQuery UI
(K. Scott Allen) The jQuery UI slider widget doesn’t display it’s current value by default. However, you can tap into the slide event and grab the current value from the second parameter passed to the event handler.