MapReduce – A Key to NoSQL Performance If you have been following the trend of my editorials these last few weeks, it will all start to come together today. While NoSQL and MapReduce are not necessarily linked, they are often combined to increase performance. MapReduce is a pattern allowing large chunks of data to be broken up into smaller chunks […]
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Oracle 11g XE on Fedora
(Michael McLaughlin) After the installation of Oracle 11g XE on Windows, I anticipated problems installing on Fedora. It’s terrific to report it was by far simpler to install on Fedora. This post provides the steps, and builds on the Fedora configuration published earlier this week.
PGA and Memory Management in Oracle
(David Fitzjarrell) Several years back, Database Journal published an article on PGA management parameters in the then-recent 9i release. We’re now at 11.2 and a number of changes have been made that can make the PGA (and memory management in general) easier for the DBA. Let’s look at what parameter
Effective Xml Part 2: How to kill the performance of an app with XPath…
(Pawel Kadluczka) XPath expressions are pretty flexible. This flexibility allows for very creative ways of using XPath. Unfortunately some of them are suboptimal and cause bad performance of apps. This is especially visible in Xslt transformations where stylesheets contains tens if not hundreds of X
Microsoft Makes the Case for More jQuery, Fewer Dependencies
(Scott M. Fulton, III) In a Best Practices online advisory to browser-based Web site developers published last week, Microsoft paints a compelling picture for favoring JavaScript libraries – especially jQuery – for rendering client-side UI, over the use of plug-ins.
Duplicating Database without connecting to Target – 11gR2
(Anand) From 11gR2, you can duplicate the database without connecting to the target database or recovery catalog which is termed as “Backup-Based Duplication Without a Target and a Recovery Catalog Connection”.
Creating Your Own NuGet Package
(Bipin Joshi) NuGet is a free and open source package management system for .NET applications. The primary goal of NuGet is to help developers simplify the process of incorporating third party libraries into their .NET applications.
An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC Extensibility
(Simone Chiaretta) Because ASP.NET MVC has been designed with extensibility as its design principle; almost every logical step of the processing pipeline can be replaced with your own implementation. In fact, the best way to develop applications with ASP.NET MVC is to extend the system, Simone start
What is XSL Apply-Templates
(Darla Ferrara) Definition: A XSL template allows you to create rules and use them for multiple documents or nodes during XSLT formatting. The template defines the formatting for XML data. Apply-templates is the element that attaches these rules to a XPath expression. It works with the named element
An Introduction to Spatial Data in SQL Server 2008
(Buck Woody) Data Types in a database system allow not only a convenient method of defining the field in a table, or to enforce integrity in the system. Sometimes data types carry a meaning by their structure — and that’s the case with SQL Server spatial data.