New Show! SSWUG TV – Interview with Laura Rose, who is a software industry veteran and business coach. We also have the latest news about OpenStack Diablo, MySQL’s commercial extensions and more. [Watch the Show] SSWUG TV – In this episode, we have a two-part interview with SQL Azure MVP Ike Ellis and updates coming from the Microsoft Build conference. […]
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SSWUG TV – Interview with Laura Rose, who is a software industry veteran and business coach
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(Closing Friday Sept 23!) September Survey – 7 Questions to WIN We’re giving away not one, but two 2-year memberships to SSWUG.ORG – all you need to do is give us your thoughts about SQL Server and Bananas. No, really. It’s only 7 questions, and you can win… Seriously, could use your feedback – please stop by the survey site […]
The Art of Linked Data: Architecting Recollection
(Uche Ogbuji) In this column “The art of Linked Data” a few of us at Zepheira will try to bring observations, reflections and practical advice from various projects applying Linked Data and thus Semantic Web principles across diverse domains. At Zepheira we help organizations implement sophisticate
Leverage Your Financial Data with the XBRL Chart Wizard–Part 2
(Beth O’Brien) Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is an XML-based language for reporting and exchanging financial data that’s making inroads across the globe. In fact the US Securities and Exchange Commission now requires public companies to submit financial data in XBRL format.
Create an Application to Upload Files Using Oracle APEX, In Less Than 10 Minutes (Video)
(Eddie Awad) A BLOB data type stores unstructured binary large objects. A table column with a BLOB data type can be used to store all types of files such a documents, spreadsheets, images and plain text. You can manage BLOB columns by easily adding file upload and download functionality to a form yo
Implement a client-side healthcare application using Saxon-CE and HL7 CDA
(Piers Michael Hollott) At the 2011 XML Prague conference, Dr. Michael Kay, the principal developer of the Saxon XSL/XQuery parser, unveiled Saxon-CE, a client-side XSLT 2.0 parser that runs using JavaScript in the web browser. Learn how you can use XSLT 2.0 and Saxon-CE to build an application view
Entity Framework Code First Development With WebMatrix
(Mike Brind) The existing data access story for WebMatrix is the Database Helper. Microsoft’s recommended data access technology going forward is the Entity Framework (EF). This article explores how to use the Code First capability offered by EF within an ASP.NET Web Pages application.
Impact of STATISTICS_LEVEL on Cardinality Feedback and Adaptive Cursor Sharing
(Christian Antognini) The STATISTICS_LEVEL parameter controls a bunch of features. In addition to the documentation, also the V$STATISTICS_LEVEL view provides a list of the ones it controls.
Very High Quality Image Resizing in .NET
(Keyvan Nayyeri) To be fair, I can’t call it very high quality because it’s just high quality and there isn’t anything higher than high, however, as I’ll discuss later, since this has a higher quality than the existing techniques for high quality resizing, I’d call it very high quality to help searc