Cloud Integration For many companies Cloud technologies make sense for many different reasons. Some need the elasticity of the Cloud (the ability to scale up or down with little or no effort). Some simply need the Cloud to reduce the need for technical resources. Regardless of your reasons for entering the Cloud, it doesn’t always meet all of your needs. […]
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Application Lifecycle Management Overview for Windows Azure
(Buck Woody) Developing in Windows Azure is at once not that much different from what you’re familiar with in on-premises systems, and different in significant ways. Because of these differences, developers often ask about the specific process to develop and deploy a Windows Azure application – more
Joomla! 2.5 Adds SQL Server Support!
(Brian Swan) This is a short post to shareexciting news: Jooma! 2.5, which shipped earlier this week, now has support for SQL Server! Of course, this release contains lots more goodies, but the addition of a database abstraction layer that supports multiple databases is a huge step (support for othe
SQL Server Data Migration Approaches
(Ravi Shankar and Soumya Ranjan Das) SQL Server integration Services (SSIS) is the de-facto standard for data migration and ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) operations in the Microsoft BI suite of technologies.
How to list the paths of all elements in an XML document?
(Matthias Nicola) A common question is how to obtain a list of all the elements and attributes that occur in an XML document. Producing such a list is what I call “XML profiling” and in a previous blog post I have discussed several SQL/XML queries that can do this.
Intercepting user customization – such as column reordering in tables – in ADF 11g change persistence
(Lucas Jellema) The requirement I was facing was simple: act on column reordering through user drag and drop in a rich table. More specifically: invoke a method in a managed bean whenever the user changes the position (or side or visibility) of a column.
Stripping Comments so Query Cache Works in MariaDB and XtraDB
(Chris Calender) I recently noticed both MariaDB and XtraDB (not MySQL yet) have a (newer) variable query_cache_strip_comments.
The System.Type Class
(Richard Carr) The second part of the Reflection tutorial looks at the System.Type class. This class can be used to represent a type declaration, such as that of a class or structure, and obtain information about that type and its members.
JAXB and Inheritance – EclipseLink MOXy’s @XmlClassExtractor
(Blaise Doughan) In a previous post I covered how JAXB’s XmlAdapter could be leveraged to use a node unique to the subtype as the inheritance indicator.
SQL SERVER – ERROR: FIX – Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner
(Pinal Dave) Recently one of my friend sent me email that he is having some problem with his very small database. We talked for few minutes and we agreed that to further investigation I will need access to the whole database.