(wubayou) Microsoft has been pretty mum on details when it comes to its internet plugin platform Silverlight. The software giant’s silence regarding the platform has many developers questioning Silverlight’s fate, as they wonder if their time spent on perfecting specific skills will eventually go to
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Take Control of Search XSL
(Matthew McDermott) This is a demo I often do when asked about how I perform Search Center XSL changes to improve the SharePoint Search Center Search Core Results Web part display. This information is buried in a few of my other posts so I thought I’d call it out all by itself for clarity.
How about ‘variably-structured data’?
(Ryan Semerau) “Unstructured” and “Semi-structured” never seem to be very good terms describing the data model used for XML and MarkLogic. And sometimes a term that people are unfamiliar with is better because then they don’t use pre-existing notions to deduce an incorrect understanding of the term.
Map Maker, Map Maker, Make Me a Map!
(Kurt Cagle) Shhhh … I have a secret. While I’ve been digging deep into the innards of MarkLogic’s XQuery implementation I’ve accidentally fallen in love with something that’s not quite a part of XQuery. It’s a magical little object called a Map.
Make use of exceptions
(Patch) While I was browsing the supportforum of PL/SQL Developer by Allround Automations I came across a thread about the special copy function of PL/SQL Developer. In this thread a function was written to determine if a sent in parameter (VARCHAR2) was numeric or not. I took this implementation an
ASP.NET 4.5 Preview: Using model binding to display data
(Gunnar Peipman) ASP.NET Forms 4.5 Preview introduces us model binding for web forms. Web developers who are familiar with ASP.NET MVC already know what model binding is and how powerful it is. Model binding means framework ability to construct objects of known types using values from presentation l
TechTip: Secure Your Reports in a New Way with DB2 Web Query DBA
(Gene Cobb) V1R1M2 of IBM DB2 Web Query for i was a significant version, one that offered new features such as the InfoAssist development tool as well as the Oracle JD Edwards Application Adapter. One feature that has flown a bit under the radar is a security enhancement named DBA (short for Databas
Rman 11gR2 changes tag labeling of the inc backup in incrementally updated backups
(Harry Dragstra) In (rman) incrementally updated backups, only incremental backups are done after the first full backup to the Fast Recovery Area.
TIL: Lookout For DEFINER
(Gerry Narvaja) I haven’t blogged in a while an I have a long TODO list of things to publish: The repository for the SNMP Agent, video and slides of my OSCON talk and a quick overview of MHA master-master support. In the meantime, here’s a little fact that I didn’t know from MySQL CREATE VIEW docume
Concurrent MERGE
(Dom Brooks) Another post on MERGE, this time about a situation I’ve seen being done a couple of times in the last few months.