(Buck Woody) Recently I had a customer inquire about some performance tuning he wanted to do for SQL Azure, and as part of that he found that it was possible to remove the “Encrypt=True” setting on the ADO.NET connection to SQL Azure.
Other News
Auto caching tables
(Shlomi Noach) Is there a way to create a caching table, some sort of a materialized view, such that upon selecting from that table, its data is validated/invalidated?
ADF Bussiness Components: In-Memory Sorting and Filtering
(Gokhan Gungor) When we work with the ADF Business Components, we work with the View Objects that retrieves its rows from database. This is the default behavior we may need to change sometimes. It is much efficient to work with the data in the memory in such cases which promotes reuse.
Basic Folder Operations
(Richard Carr) Some applications that perform file access also require the ability to manipulate the folder structure, or directory structure, within the file system. The Directory class provides many static methods, including some that perform basic folder operations.
MOXy as Your JAX-RS JSON Provider – Server Side
(Blaise Doughan) In a previous series of posts I covered how EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy) can be leveraged to create a RESTful data access service. In this post I will cover how easy it is to leverage MOXy’s new JSON binding on the server side to add support for JSON messages based on JAXB mappings.
SQL Server – Learning SQL Server Performance: Indexing Basics – Video
(Pinal Dave) Today I remember one of my older cartoon years ago created for Indexing and Performance.
Building Web Pages – HTML Design with StyleVision
(Beth O’Brien) The rapid pace of today’s business environment means that information – along with the format in which it is required – changes often. Although some Web pages contain content that doesn’t often change (e.g., About Us and directions pages), the majority of today’s corporate Websites ar
Microsoft SQL Server Gets a Big Data Revamp
(Pedro Hernandez) This week, Microsoft released to manufacture its years-in-the-making update to SQL Server. In the midst of the milestone event, the software giant also announced that SQL Server 2012 would be generally available on April 1st.
IBM Cognos Proven Practices: IBM Cognos 8 BI Dispatcher Routing Explained
This document is meant to supplement the Security and Administration Guide and Architecture and Deployment Guide which are part of the IBM Cognos BI product documentation. It will explain the concept of Dispatcher routing including load balancing and Advanced Routing.
SharePoint: The No Code way to Customize FAST Search – Part 1: Search Results
(Kathryn Ciaralli) SharePoint Search can be a great way to elevate the findability of content to a whole new level; even better, it’s easily customizable.