(Peter Vogel) In a comment to a tip in our ".NET Tips and Tricks" blog, a reader noted that what he needed to was an "example of how to have a large number of combo/drop that are dependent on each other in a dataview" — including dependencies that involved several dropdown lists rather than just on
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GemFire Write-Behind with an Oracle RDBMS
(Pas Apicella) Many in memory data fabric’s use an Oracle RDBMS to persist data and make it available as required. In this demo we explore an effective way to use GemFire write-behind functionality to an Oracle RDBMS and strategies around how to increase throughput.
Creating a Video Converter Using VB.NET
(Hannes du Preez) I have always been fascinated with programs like DVD Fab, or XiliSoft. I literally have millions of DVDs. I am a movie freak. Now, I have many imported DVDs of movies I can remember from when I was just a little boy.
MarkLogic as Platform
(Kurt Cagle) One of the joys of being a consultant is that you go through stretches where there’s not much to do, and then you get thrown into a project where you’re burning 50+ hours a week, your kids have trouble recognizing you, and where you wake up with nightmares about code that simply … won
Tuning ADF Tree – Retain View Link Accessor Rowset
(Andrejus Baranovskis) When expanding ADF Tree node, by default – each time ADF generates new SQL statement to retrieve expanded tree level nodes. New SQL statement is generated even after collapsing and expanding same node. In most of the cases, especially when tree structure is static, we would li
Load Response Message File System in SoapUI
(Martien van den Akker) Today I figured out how to get a response from filesystem in SoapUI. I found that I could not dynamically select from multiple responses in a mockResponse-TestStep in a TestSuite. But loading from a file within a Groovy script should do the job.
The DB2Night Show #65: Query Performance – The Missing Link in IT
(Scott Hayes) In episode #65, our special guest Curt Triplett shared with us his methodology and process for tackling tough query performance issues.
Performance impact: synchronous audit can trash your database performance
(Linchi Shea) The SQL Server Audit feature introduced in SQL Server2008 is useful in many scenarios. Although it still has much room for improvement, it has made SQL Server auditing easier to manage, and in particular, it has reduced performance impact as compared with a similar audit setup using SQ
Parse XML at SAX Speed without DOM or SAX
(unitrunker) I have used several XML parsers over the last decade including Xerces and MS-XML. The two principal APIs are SAX and DOM. When you’ve worked with XML for a while, you’ll discover that DOM code is very readable – particularly when written in a top-down style.
Mocking Internal Types with Moq
To perform successful unit testing classes should be isolated from their dependencies. When the dependencies are internal and tests are in a separate project, this can be achieved using a combination of Moq and C# friend assemblies.