(David Allan) Following on from my post earlier this morning on scripting model and topology creation tonight I thought I’d add a little UI to make those groovy functions a little more palatable. In OWB we have experts for capturing user input, with the groovy console we open up opportunities to bui
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Solving Replication Lag with Tungsten Slave Prefetch
(Robert Hodges) Slave prefetch is an increasingly popular technique for speeding up native MySQL replication, with several tools already published to enable it, such as mk-slave-prefetch and Replication Booster. Tungsten Replicator is now joining the fray. This article explains how our implementa
RESTful Made Simple – A Generic REST Service Client Library
(Dr. Song Li) This article presents a generic REST service client library and an example on how to use it.
Introduction of Sharepoint 2010
(Jean Paul) SharePoint is a web application platform created by Microsoft. It is considered to be one of the most productive frameworks created by Microsoft in the last decade. SharePoint provides us the following feature support.
Merge Feedback
SSWUGtv With Stephen Wynkoop In this Special Edition, Leon Guzenda from Objectivity DB joins us to talk about Big Data, some real applications for it and the history behind this kind of massive data procession. Really interesting applications of this technology. Watch the Show Merge Feedback We had a couple responses from the Merge conversation raised in the newsletter yesterday. […]
Getting Started with Open XML Development – Part V Developer Techniques
(Eric White) This is the fifth in a series of screen-casts on getting started with Open XML development. In this screen-cast, I discuss some of the most important developer techniques that you can use with Open XML development. The simplest technique is modifying Open XML documents in memory using
HTML 5 Information
(Jennifer Kyrnin) HTML 5 is a new specification of HTML designed to follow HTML 4.01 and was created by designers who were not satisfied with the direction the W3C was taking HTML with the advent of XHTML 1.0.
DB2 10, DB2 9, and DB2 V8 Product Publications has been refreshed for February 2012
(Willie Favero) With each new month, we are almost always getting a few of the product publications refreshed. That trend continues into February 2012 with all the active releases of DB2 (that’s DB2 10, DB2 9, and DB2 Version 8) getting a little something new…
DB2’s Got Talent Finals – Round 1
(Susan Visser) Today was the first show of the finals for the DB2’s Got Talent 2012 Competition. If you didn’t participate live, I strongly encourage you to watch the replay. We had the top 10 contestants from February present 4-minute technical presentations to us.
Microsoft tailors BI capabilities for users, IT in SQL Server 2012
(Beth Stackpole) If much of SQL Server 2008 R2’s focus was on making business intelligence (BI) more accessible to users as a self-service, then SQL Server 2012 is about building on that vision while making the concept of self-service BI easier for IT to manage, industry watchers say.