(Angela Guess) Semantic Web and Drupal expert Lin Clark has created some excellent screencasts that demonstrate how to harness the power of open data in your own Drupal site.
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How to Unit Test
Introduction to SQL Server Reporting Services – Next Tuesday, August 25 Here’s your chance to sign up for the next virtual class, "Introduction to SQL Server Reporting Services". This "Made Simple" course, taught by Sherri McDonald, a Business intelligence expert from Pragmatic Works, is a great investment for your personal development. If you’re ready to up your game, come on […]
When Acronyms Collide: SOA vs. OO
(Bill Blondeau) XML Today has a longstanding tradition of approaching Service Architecture largely through the narrow lens of the SOAP vs REST debate, coming down strongly on the side of the latter in most cases.
Top Tips for Managing .NET Application Performance
(App Man) There are many technical articles/blogs on the web that jump straight into areas of .NET code you can instantly optimize and tune. Before we get to some of those areas, it’s good to take a step back and ask yourself, “Why am I here?”
Tempfile Read /Writes and ASM
(Kellyn Pot’Vin) I truly believe that database myths are the scourge of the database world. With that said, I have to blame myself for not being specific enough in one of my own blog posts and propagating one myself!
SharePoint 2010 performance management load gets heavier
(Shawn Shell) It’s been said many times: SharePoint is a complex platform. When Microsoft released SharePoint 2010, management complexity increased further with the addition of service applications, more flexible SharePoint deployment models, new features like Office Web Apps and expanded data-handl
Strange SSIS Error for Configurations on Configuration Table Data Type Change from NVARCHAR to VARCHAR
(Josh Robinson) Recently I got a strange SSIS error. The error was for each of the package configurations I had in place that pulled their values from the SSIS Config table. The ones that used the .dtsConfig file or environment variables were not throwing errors.
WPF: Using Task Library to Load Data
(Mahesh Sabnis) In .NET 4.0, we have a set of new API’s to simplify the process of adding parallelism and concurrency to applications. This set of API’s is called the “Task Parallel Library (TPL)” and is located in the System.Threading and System.Threading.Tasks namespaces.
Why tuning Oracle works and modeling it
(Craig Shallahamer) Have you ever wondered why tuning Oracle improves performance? There are of course obvious answers, but then there are the deeper answers. More profound answers. It’s like answering the question, “Why is the sky blue?”
BLEVEL 1 => BLEVEL 2 (Teenage Wildlife)
(Richard Foote) Jonathan Lewis recently wrote a really nice blog piece blevel=1 on the dangers of an index toggling between BLEVEL 1 and BLEVEL 2. I thought it would be useful to demonstrate this issue with a quick demo (Note: this example is on 11.2.0.1, with an 8K block size).