(SheoNarayan) In this article, we are going to learn the usage of ComboBox Controls in SilverLight.
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Rich Snippets and Schema.org – SEO in the Semantic Web 3.0
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Profiling your slow queries using pt-query-digest and some love from Percona Server
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Comparison of WebSphere and JBoss cluster management and application deployment (demos)
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Extended DISPLAY_CURSOR With Rowsource Statistics
(Randolf Geist) So this will be my Oracle related Christmas present for you: A prototype implementation that extends the DBMS_XPLAN.DISPLAY_CURSOR output making it hopefully more meaningful and easier to interpret. It is a simple standalone SQL*Plus script with the main functionality performed by a
ComboBox using ExtJS and ASP.NET MVC
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Detailed SQL Server data audit through a .NET trigger
(David Catriel) I’ve been looking for quite some time for a solid (and granular) auditing solution that would keep track of the changes made to the data in my SQL Server DB, and have not been able to find one (other than commercial solutions). What I was looking for was simple: every time a record w
Application Testing Considerations
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Sample XPath utility for Coded UI Test
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