SelecTViews With Stephen Wynkoop Today you’re in for a treat as Stephen interviews Kalen Delaney, author of SQL Server 2008 Internals. Of course there is a lot more…Watch the Show Parallel Wrapup Our readers have submitted a number of good insights and suggestions for parallel processing. Today we’ll wrap up this particular topic with those comments. Michael: Since 25. August […]
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Working with SharePoint 2010 Object Model using Custom WCF Service
(Mahesh Sabnis) I have been working on a scenario where a WCF service hosted on IIS 7, communicates to the SharePoint 2010 server object model for performing List operations. Although SharePoint 2010 has provided in-built WCF services for working with List etc, but one my students who is working as
Microsoft’s Master Data Services plays huge role on BI stage
(Don Jones) One of the most important new features in SQL Server 2008 R2 is Master Data Services, or MDS. In Microsoft’s words, MDS is designed to help organizations establish and maintain a “single version of the truth.” Where does that fit into a business intelligence (BI) scenario?
OBIEE 11g: UPGCMP-02712
(oraclenerd) Amusingly, the Usage Tracking components (RPD, Web Catalog) must be upgraded from 10g to 11g (11.1.1.5 for me). Not sure how this was missed, but it was.
Fault handling in File adapter for CSV and XML files in SOA 11G
(Yatan) I will show how we can implement fault handling in file adapter when it is reading (polling) CSV files, I am using 11G and using its Fault Handling Framework.
Document formats, part 2: Loading different formats
(Evan Lenz) In part 1, we saw how MarkLogic Server supports three basic document formats (XML, text, and binary), how each of them is modeled as a tree, and how you can determine the format of a document that has already been loaded into the database. This short blog installment shows how you can de
Managing the Protein Data Bank with DB2 pureXML
(Matthias Nicola and Gerd Anders) The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is a unique worldwide repository of structural data about proteins. The PDB data is available in XML format in order to provide flexibility, extensibility, and ease of data exchange in the biological research community.
Sorting Database Columns With the SELECT Statement
(Joel Murach) In this conclusion to a multi-part series on using the SELECT statement in an Oracle database, you’ll learn how to sort a result set by an alias, an expression, or a column number.
Managing DB2 for z/OS CPU Parallelism for Dynamic SQL
(Robert Catterall) DB2 for z/OS query CPU parallelism (hereinafter referred to simply as “query parallelism”), introduced with DB2 Version 4 in the mid-1990s, enables DB2 to split a query into multiple tasks that can execute concurrently on a mainframe server.
Exceptions and Parallel Loops
The sixth part of the Parallel Programming in .NET tutorial is the last instalment that examines the parallel loops. This article discusses how exceptions are thrown by code within a parallel loop and how they can be handled.