(Udayan Banerjee) Irrespective of what the Agile Manifesto says (“Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation”) we do require a signed contract for ANY medium to large software outsourcing engagements – and that includes agile projects.
Other News
Optimize web page – Resizing image using http handler and custom server control
(Kedar Kulkarni) In this (not so) short article, Kedar Kulkarni explains about using HTTP handler to resize image for performance optimization and combining it with custom image control to provide transparent mechanism.
Dedicated Admin Connection (DAC) error in SQL Server 2012 RC0
(Sankar Reddy) Dedicated Admin Connection (DAC) in SQL Server doesn’t need any introduction now that it is in the product for almost 6-7 years i.e from the days of SQL Server 2005. Starting from the early builds of SQL Server 2012, there is an error when connecting to DAC in SQL Server DENALI.
Autotrace Polluting The Shared Pool?
(Randolf Geist) Another random note that I made during the sessions attended at OOW was about the SQL*Plus AUTOTRACE feature. As you’re hopefully already aware of this feature has some significant shortcomings, the most obvious being that it doesn’t pull the actual execution plan from the Shared Poo
Nested Tables 101
(Lewis Cunningham) A nested table is much like an associative array but you do not determine the index. The index grows by using the extend command and the index is always an incrementing integer value.
Creating a custom XML indexing connector for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
XML files are often used as input to search engines. The article Custom XML Item Processing describes one way of indexing XML content for FAST Search Server 2010. Another option is to create a custom XML indexing connector.
Performance impact: SQL2008 R2 audit and trace
(Linchi Shea) We are told that SQL Server 2008 R2 Audit (and SQL Server 2008 Audit) has much less performance overhead than SQL Trace when we try to capture the same information. Knowing how SQL Server R2 Audit is implemented (i.e. on top of the extended events infrastructure), I’ve always taken tha
Extending Classes In A Modular JavaScript Application Architecture Using RequireJS
(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, I tried to apply some deep thinking to how dependencies should be managed in a modular JavaScript application architecture that is using RequireJS. The conclusion that I came to was that RequireJS should manage and load “definitions” while your application should manage and lo
Sweet Child Report O’ Mine
(Jeff Smith) I am just getting my feet wet when it comes to the reports in SQL Developer. The tool itself has quite a lot going on, everything from a database IDE to a migration platform, to a data modeling component. And then throw in the reporting stuff. I’ve already covered how to build a simple
What Are Full, Incremental, and Differential Backups?
(Baron Schwartz) Sometimes you might hear people talk about full backups, and differential backups versus incremental backups. What is the difference?