(Alan Berman) The new Async feature in Visual Studio makes it easy to code asynchronous method calls. To make synchronous code asynchronous, you can simply call an asynchronous method instead of a synchronous method and add a few keywords to the code, as shown in the examples below. You no longer n
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How to rename SQL Tuning Set ( STS )
(Virag Sharma) We can use SQL Performance Analyzer (SPA) to evaluate impact on SQLs of 11g R2 database upgrade from 10.2 .So created some demo , example ( with full code ). EM was very good option , but still preferred sql,pl-sql, command / api.
Visual Studio Call Stack Window
(Richard Carr) The call stack records each member call, allowing the calling code to be resumed when a member exits. The Call Stack window is a debugging tool in Visual Studio that allows the call stack to be examined whilst a program is in debug mode.
Fundamentally Irrelevant
(Dom Brooks) There’s always a risk when you go off testing something that you notice some side-effect or issue that turns out to be irrelevant to the main investigation.
Sybase and SQL Server Image Data Move
(Dermot O’Neill) SQL Developer can move data online and offline.
Give Me a Sign: What Do Things Mean on the Semantic Web?
(Michael K. Bergman) The crowning achievement of the semantc Web is the simple use of URIs to identify data. Further, if the URI identifier can resolve to a representation of that data, it now becomes an integral part of the HTTP access protocol of the Web while providing a unique identifier for the
Web Development Report: Getting Started with Mobile Web Development Using HTML5, jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC 4
(Rachel Appel) Welcome to the first installment of the Web Development Report, a new online column at MSDN Magazine. Each month, current topics and issues in Web application development using technologies such as HTML5, ASP.NET, jQuery, Mobile Web and more will be discussed. The area covered this mo
Better Controlling MySQL Memory Usage
(Simon J Mudd) MySQL, like a lot of other software, has many knobs you can tweak. Most of these knobs may affect behaviour, but more importantly most affect the memory usage of the server, so getting these settings right is very important.
DB2 10 for z/OS: Value for years to come
(Dave Beulke) The discussion of the z/OS platform and specifically the value of DB2 10 is very interesting. As I work with clients on both the distributed and the z/OS platforms, the z/OS value is extending its use within the enterprise. Based on these cost of z/OS and the value of DB2 10 discussion
Well worth a second mention: DB2 9 withdraw from marketing
(Willie Favero) On December 10, 2012 (that’s less than one year from now), DB2 9 will be withdrawn from marketing along with DB2 9 VUE and the DB2 9 Utility Suite.