(Andrew J. Brust) The SQL Server relational engine matured a long time ago. There have been advances, of course, in performance, fault tolerance and high availability, not mention encryption, compression and file-system integration.
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ColdFusion 10 Beta – Closures And Function Expressions And Threads
(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, I really started to dig into the Closures and Function Expressions that were introduced in ColdFusion 10.
How to convert MySQL’s SHOW PROFILES into a real profile
(Baron Schwartz) SHOW PROFILES shows how much time MySQL spends in various phases of query execution, but it isn’t a full-featured profile. By that, I mean that it doesn’t show similar phases aggregated together, doesn’t sort them by worst-first, and doesn’t show the relative amount of time consumed
Boost IBM InfoSphere Streams performance with Linux channel bonding
(Denton Hatzenbihler, Richard P. King, Wesley Most and Mike Oberholtzer) Have you ever wondered if Linux channel bonding would allow you to get faster throughput using IBM InfoSphere Streams? We have answered that question when running InfoSphere Streams release 2.0.0.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux r
A Software Developer’s Guide to HTTP Part IV– Web Architecture
(Scott) In the first part of this series we talked about resources, but mostly focused on URLs and how to interpret a URL. However, resources are the centerpiece of HTTP. Now that we understand HTTP messages, methods, and connections we can return to look at resources in a new light. In this article
Using LINQ Queries
(Jovan Popovic) Language INtegrated Queries are SQL-like C# queries that can be user to manipulate collections of objects. In this article I will show some cases of usage that show how LINQ can be used to query collections of objects.
DropShadowExtender Control in AJAX Using ASP.NET
(Alok Pandey) The DropShadowExtender control is used to add shadow to panel controls. It allows a user to set the width of a shadow, opaque as well as rounded corner. Here I will use the DropShadow Extender in my web application. It has some properties to which I will use here.
Editorial Thoughts for Today
Potpourri I have a lot of comments from readers on different topics that have been accumulating. So, today I’m going to catch up on some of the backlog. Marty reminds us that there is a need for people who can get software to work together…something that becomes more critical as underlying tools for valuable assets are deprecated. Not only am […]
SSWUGtv: Special Edition Leon Guzenda from Objectivity DB joins us to talk about Big Data, some real applications for it and the history
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Immutable Objects
Immutable Objects I came across a Java question a couple days ago asking how to substitute the values from a to b, and b to a, without using a third temporary variable. In short, how to transfer the contents without doing something like C=A A=B B=C How could you do this without using a third variable? The question had a […]