(Gilberto Holms) One of my clients made a requirement of transforming some customer data, returned by the legacy systems wrapped by OSB services, to the “Title Case” format, also known as “Pascal Case” and “Upper Camel Case”. That means that the text must be tokenized at the blank spaces and the fir
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Why lock-free data structures just aren’t lock-free enough
(Alex Davies) Today’s post will explore why the current ways to communicate between threads don’t scale, and show you a possible way to build scalable parallel programming on top of shared memory.
Overlapping Charts in SSRS using Range Charts
(Jason Thomas) How fast time flies! Another new version of SQL Server has been launched and it seems like it was only a few days ago that SQL Server 2008 was released. Those days, I was mainly focussing on SSRS, and I can’t express in words how happy I was when I saw all the new features in SSRS 200
SharePoint 2010 Caveats: Dont Get Caught Out!
(Michal Pisarek) Anyone who has worked with SharePoint for more than, well 5 minutes, knows that there are some caveats to the product. So over a conversation on Skype Paul Culmsee and I came up with a hair brained idea to present a talk about some of the most common, dangerous and some downright st
Reflecting Event Information
(Richard Carr) The sixth part of the Reflection tutorial continues the description of the reflection of class and structure members. This article examines the reflection of events and the properties of the EventInfo class, which describes them.
ColdFusion 10 – Accessing The Call Stack With CallStackGet()
(Ben Nadel) When your application is running, the ColdFusion server maintains information about the currently executing functions and the context in which they were invoked. This data structure is known as the “call stack” or “execution stack”.
Comparison between a Graphical Plan and Text Plan
(Tibor Nagy) I have been using Graphical Query Plans for some time, but I know that Text Plans are also available. I have looked at them a few times, but I don’t really understand how to relate what I know about the Graphical Plans to the Text Plan format.
What, More Database Naming Ideas?
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Wrap Up Database Naming Conventions
Wrap Up Database Naming Conventions I thought I would close the thoughts on Database naming conventions with a few things I find helpful, and then include thoughts submitted by others. These are a few things I like to use in my naming conventions…these are ideas that I don’t simply follow blindly. I don’t mind long names for tables, views, columns, […]
Big Data: Five Simple Database Design Performance Tips
(Dave Beulke) Doing performance consulting, database system and application tuning exposes me to many different database designs. There are many different aspects to properly analyze a database schema design.