(Jason Himmelstein) When I initially sat down to start this article, I quickly realized that you can’t begin to troubleshoot performance issues until you have a sound baseline to start with. Otherwise, the likelihood of you figuring out what is going wrong in the environment is extremely low.
Other News
Automate MDX Query Testing
(Stacia Misner) In one my recent MDX classes, a student asked about automation of MDX queries for the purposes of testing query performance, so today I’ll answer that question and draw your attention to a few resources available.
Improving .NET Application Performance
(Ard-Jan Barnas) We are starting a new series of articles that will mostly be geared towards the development minded of our readers. This new series details how to optimize and improve the performance of your .NET applications.
SQL SERVER – Detecting guest User Permissions – guest User Access Status
(Pinal Dave) Earlier I wrote the blog post SQL SERVER – Disable Guest Account – Serious Security Issue, and I got many comments asking questions related to the guest user.
Inside the Concurrent Collections: ConcurrentDictionary
(Simon Cooper) Using locks to implement a thread-safe collection is rather like using a sledgehammer – unsubtle, easy to understand, and tends to make any other tool redundant. Unlike the previous two collections I looked at, ConcurrentStack and ConcurrentQueue, ConcurrentDictionary uses locks quite
Node.js tools: Server-side JavaScript comes of age
(Peter Wayner) The story of Node.js reads like it came from a Hollywood script assembly line: Some kids are monkeying around with scrap they picked up around the Internet and find a new way to snap it together. The next thing you know, they’re lapping the pack at the racetrack and coasting to the wi
Building an ASP.NET MVC app using RavenDB as a Backing Store
(Sumit Maitra) In a previous article, I had demonstrated how we could introduce RavenDB as an auto-save cache for information that resides in a traditional RDBMS. Today we are going to look at how we can use it as the only backing store of an ASP.NET MVC application.
Deploying WebSphere software with Rational Automation Framework
(Werner Vanzyl) IBM Rational Automation Framework is a server-based software product that can automate many IBM WebSphere middleware distribution and administration activities.
New Logical Functions in SQL Server 2012 (IIF and CHOOSE)
(Ashish Kumar Mehta) SQL Server 2012, code named Denali, has new features to perform Logical Functions such as CHOOSE and IIF that can be used to perform logical operations. In this tip we take a look at some basic examples of how this could be used.
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 […]