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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Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB Recently I have been looking at the DynamoDB from Amazon. This is a new offering that at the time of the document in the previous link, was still in beta. I am not sure of the current state. This is a NoSQL engine having much of the elasticity of MS Azure. A pay as you go model allows […]
A Brief Introduction to the DB2 Catalog
(Craig Mullins) The system catalog, or the DB2 Catalog, offers a wealth of information about DB2. If the DB2 optimizer is the heart and soul of DB2, the DB2 Catalog is its memory. The knowledge base of every object known to DB2 is stored in the DB2 Catalog, along with the DB2 Directory and the BSDS
name() is a code smell
(Evan Lenz) I hadn’t intended to do a series on XQuery code smells, but this post is in the same vein as the “text() is a code smell” post from last month. If text() slightly smells, then name() really reeks. There are exceptions of course, and I’ll enumerate the ones I can think of, but you’ll see
SSIS – Delete files older than retention period from specified folder using Script Task in SQL Server
(Paresh Prajapati) Earlier we have seen for the Delete file using Script Task and files deletion using File System Task in SSIS. We have directly wrote the logic to get the files and delete from specified folder in the script for the Script Task. For File System Task we have Used Foreach Loop Contai
HTML5 Form features you should know
(Bipin Joshi) In the past few articles I discussed HTML5 features that every ASP.NET developer should be aware of. In this article I will focus on HTML Forms and discuss some enhancements that make your life easy. Merely using various input types is just one part of the story. You should also know H
Changing database repositories in Oracle VM 3
(Wim Coekaerts) At home I have a small atom-based server that was running Oracle VM Manager 3, installed using simple installation. Simple installation is the option where you just enter a password and the Oracle VM Manager installer installs : Oracle XE database, WebLogic Server and the Oracle VM
Nice reading on Semantic Search
(Ivan Herman) I had a great time reading a paper on Semantic Search[1]. Although the paper is on the details of a specific Semantic Web search engine (DERI’s SWSE), I was reading it as somebody not really familiar with all the intricate details of such a search engine setup and operation (i.e., I wo
Expression Trees – A VB.NET and LINQ Feature
(Dan Mabbutt) Since it was introduced in VB.NET 2008, LINQ has become fundamental in VB.NET – but it’s still widely misunderstood. This article is one of a series at About Visual Basic that covers the major ways to program LINQ.
Some gotchas when using ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework …
(Michael Aspengren) A fairly short one today. I was playing around with ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework Code First and discovered a few gotchas. Which I intend to share here.