(Don Donais) Recently I was working on a project where I was creating a Anniversary and Birthday web part and came across the need to show the Birthday not as the typical MM/DD/YYYY but as MM/DD and we did not get anybody riled because now the entire company know they are “52”!
Other News
How to use XML Namespaces in XML document
This ASP.NET 4.0 tutorial explains how to use XML Namespaces in XML document.
New Bundling and Minification Support (ASP.NET 4.5 Series)
(Scott Guthrie) This is the sixth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on ASP.NET 4.5.
Razor Donut Caching
(Phil Haack) Donut caching, the ability to cache an entire page except for a small region of the page (or set of regions) has been conspicuously absent from ASP.NET MVC since version 2.
EXPLAIN PLAN shared memory
(Timur Akhmadeev) Recently I did an investigation of an ORA-04031 which happens almost regularly on a 10.2.0.4 Oracle database server with 9G of memory allocated to shared pool and disabled Automatic Shared Memory Management (sga_target=0).
ORA-31038: Invalid enumeration value: ‘StatelessWithFastRestPackageState’
(Flavio Casetta) This error is caused by a nice Oracle documentation typo: the enumerated constant StatelessWithFastRestPackageState is misspelled in table 37-19 (in both 10.2 and 11.1 DBMS_EPG chapters of PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference), but is correctly reported elsewhere (too bad I read the
SQL Server Query Performance Analysis using DMVs
(Carl Nolan) Continuing the TSQL theme I thought it would be worthwhile sharing some TSQL scripts that I have been using over the years for tuning SQL Server queries…
DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL and SELECT_CATALOG_ROLE
(Neil Johnson) It is quite common for sites to have a set of read only (or read mostly) privileges they grant DBAs and support technicians for day to day investigation. Such a set of privileges may be similar to the role below:
DB2 Data Sharing: What do you Know about Member Subsetting?
(Robert Catterall) DB2 for z/OS data sharing is great technology. One of the things that makes it great is the ability of a data sharing system to automatically spread work across DB2 members so as to optimize load balancing, throughput, and availability.
Using live code interrupts to produce stats which in turn improves code
(Dathan Vance Pattishall) How do you know that your code is fast? Is it fast for your test cases or is it fast for every case? When changes are made how does that affect your customers? How do you know over a period of time if the system is faster or slower.