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SOA with TOGAF
(Gaurav Tripathi) Many organizations are now facing challenges around keeping pace with current business trends and managing complex systems. So organization are looking for better business agility, better business automation, and better IT alignment to speed their business growth.
Check if a string is null or empty in XSLT
(Paul Gu) Here is an example in different situations:
XQuery/MarkLogic: pulling data out of an Excel spreadsheet
(Alex Bleasdale) Excel spreadsheets can be saved in an xml format – in such cases, it’s simple to dump the xml into a CQ buffer (if you’re using MarkLogic) and parse the information in adjacent column cells.
Fun with Anonymous Types
(Jim Mischel) C# is a strongly-typed language. There’s no getting around that. It’s also statically typed in that every object has a known type at compile time. The runtime also includes full type checking so that you can’t violate the type system at runtime like you can in languages like C.
Explain Plan and PLAN_TABLE$
(Martin Nash) Someone told me something a few weeks ago that didn’t make sense to me, and it still doesn’t.
What are Types of events in WPF or What is Event Routing or a Routed Event?
(Hima) Event Routing or A Routed Event is a type of event that is has the ability to invoke handlers not only on on the object that raised the event but also on multiple listeners in an element tree.
The basics of batch in Oracle environments
(Frank Ohlhorst) In the Oracle realm, there are many different ways to manage and execute batch jobs, depending on the Oracle technology in use. Most Oracle database administrators approach batch-job processing from the command-line interface (CLI), but that is a manual process and requires hands-on
Using Entity Framework Code First and ASP.NET Membership Together
(Imar Spaanjaars) Some time ago I was involved as a software designer and developer in an MVC 3 project that used Entity Framework Code First 4.1 in a repository layer. During development we postponed dealing with security as requirements were pretty simple (simple logons with a single Administrator
SQL Server Denali Dependencies & Lineage
(Mark Kromer) I’ve been a long-time advocate and big proponent of having a mechanism in my end-to-end BI solution that can show me what has changed and what will changed BEFORE something breaks. By end-to-end BI solution I mean from the data source to the ETL to the data mart to semantic layer to th