Other SSD Benefits Many have written in regarding different benefits of SSD performance. Some are using SSD drives in virtual machine environments resulting in greatly enhanced performance. Others are even running database builds, etc. The SSD used in this kind of configuration is very different from the ones you may find in an enterprise configuration. They are very inexpensive in […]
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Cache is King
Cache is King When it comes to SQL Server, you can never have enough memory. Yesterday I circled back to the topic of SSD due to the upcoming release of SSD technology from the Intel and Micron partnership. As you may have guessed, all SSD implementations are not alike. And, no matter what, RAM is the fastest data access available […]
Web.config Transformation Features in Visual Studio 2010
(Dean Hume) When developing applications in Visual Studio, I normally pay a lot of attention to my Solution Explorer. However, I recently spotted something that I didn’t notice before. Well, at least something that I haven’t paid attention to!
Aggregating RSS Feeds
(Bipin Joshi) .NET framework provides classes to read and write RSS and ATOM feeds. I already wrote two articles Using Syndication Classes to Generate RSS Feeds and Using Syndication Classes to Read RSS Feeds that illustrate use of these classes.
Challenges and Chances of the 11g Query Optimizer
(Christian Antognini) Challenges and Chances of the 11g Query Optimizer is the name of a presentation I gave at several events (e.g. Trivadis Performance Days, Oracle OpenWorld, DOAG Konferenz, UKOUG Conference) throughout 2011. Its abstract is the following:
SYSTIMESTAMP INTERVAL Processing
(Neil Chandler) This is just a quick post to try to encourage the use of the INTERVAL function when adjusting (sys)timestamps (or dates). I thought this would be better expressed through a quick script with comments to show how using the traditional Oracle method of calculating fractions of a day ca
Sanitizing Input with PHP
(W. Jason Gilmore and Robert H. Treat) In this seventh part of an eight-part article series on using PHP commands with your file and operating systems, you’ll learn how and why to sanitize user input.
DOM event handlers
Many DOM objects generate events that you can receive and handle in order to be aware of interesting things that happen in the browser. These can include user interactions, user interface changes (such as windows opening and closing), or progress of content loading, among other things.
Hibernate One To Many XML Mapping Tutorial
(Viral Patel) Welcome to the Hibernate Tutorial Series. In previous tutorial we saw how to implement One-to-one Annotation mapping as well as XML mapping. In this tutorial we will understand How to implement Bi-directional One-to-Many relationship in Hibernate using XML mappings.
Day 8: The Twelve Days of SQL: Statistics are a double-edged sword
(Iggy Fernandez) Database administrators as well as developers, managers, and even end-users put a lot of faith in statistics. When application performance degrades, there is a chorus of requests to collect fresh statistics.