(Kim Berg Hansen) Recently on the ODTUG e-mail list ODTUG-SQLPLUS-L a user highcharge asked how to take daylight savings time into consideration when calculating number of hours between two DATE values. If you merely subtract the dates, twice a year you will be one hour wrong.
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Archived Logs after RESETLOGS
(Hemant K Chitale) Following up on my previous post “Understanding RESETLOGS”
Using jQuery.whenSync() For Asynchronous Form Validation And Processing
(Ben Nadel) Lately, I’ve been playing around with Node.js on Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud). Coming from a ColdFusion background, moving into an asynchronous event loop can be challenging. Simple things like form processing can become complex workflows when even one step of Validation or Process
I have proof of UFOs
(Mark Grennan) Un-maned Failover Operations
Hacking the browser cache with JQuery and ASP.NET MVC
(Pablo M. Cibraro) Although JQuery provides a very good support for caching responses from AJAX calls in the browser, it is always good to know how you can use http as protocol for making an effective use of it.
Reflecting Fields
(Richard Carr) The third part of the Reflection tutorial looks at reflection of fields. Information about a type’s fields can be obtained in FieldInfo objects, using System.Type class methods. FieldInfo objects include properties that describe a field’s type and scope.
How to enable the CHECKSUM option if backup utilities do not expose the option
The Transact-SQL BACKUP and RESTORE commands provide the error-management options CHECKSUM and NO_CHECKSUM. If you are using backup applications or utilities that do not expose these options, you can enable the CHECKSUM option by using Trace Flag 3023 on the instance of Microsoft SQL Server.
Simplify Your Projections with AutoMapper
(Patrick Steele) One of the great things about the .NET community is the wealth of open source projects that are available to you. In previous columns, I’ve written about my use of Castle Windsor (December 2011) and Rhino.Mocks (August 2011). In this article, I’m going to look at a powerful and exte
How to do Visual Best Bets for built-in SharePoint Search
(Mikael Svenson) Marcus Johansson did a post about the use of Best Bets this morning which inspired me to write this post. Read his post for more thoughts around the use of best bets.
Big Blue Slashes DB2 Web Query Prices–Again
(Timothy Prickett Morgan) It sure does look like IBM wants you to stop using Query/400 or any one of a number of third-party query tools that run in conjunction with the DB2 for i relational database at the heart of the IBM i operating system.