(K. Brian Kelley) I’ve been asked to be the data modeler for a new application and I’ve not done this before. I understand the idea of getting the entities and how they connect together from customer interviews, but how do I apply the normalization rules to my data model? Also, why are they importan
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Data Hoarding Feedback
Data Hoarding Feedback I received some great feedback from people facing down the data hoarding issues that plague so many systems. The original question was essentially "we all hoard data… great. But what do you do about it??" It seems that the successes for people come from a multi-step process of addressing too much information stored. First, figure out the […]
Are you Ready for IPv6?
$$SWYNK$$ Are you Ready for IPv6? According to information I gleaned from IPv6.com, the new internet protocol has a lot more going on than expanding the number of available network addresses. It has features enabling new hardware and software to work more efficiently. Summarizing their site, they list 10 key improvements over the 30 year old IPv4 internet protocol. • […]
IDENTITY Results Clarification
SeleccTViews With Stephen Wynkoop Watch as Scott Gode from Azaleos talks with Stephen about gaps between private cloud systems and Office 365. IDENTITY Results Clarification I received an Email correcting my description on the behavior of both SCOPE_IDENTITY and @@IDENTITY. Also, there was a twitter response regarding the behavior of IDENT_CURRENT as well. Don Writes: In Getting rid of @@Identity […]
Develop a Spring client for Android to a JAX-RS web service
(Deepak Vohra) The Representational State Transfer (REST) software architecture is based on transferring representation of resources. A RESTful web service is a web service based on REST and the HTTP protocol and is made available as a URI path.
Blend Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint, Office for ‘BI lite’
(Don Jones) If you’re at a small or medium-sized business, you’ve probably asked yourself this question: Do I need to buy a business intelligence (BI) suite to glean business insight?
Usability improvements in Tungsten Replicator 2.0.4
(Giuseppe Maxia) If you love a software product, you should try to improve it, and not be afraid of criticizing it. This principle has guided me with MySQL (where I have submitted many usability bugs, and discussed interface with developers for years), and it proves true for Tungsten Replicator as w
Building Time-Delayed Targets with Data Replication
(david t) Most replication products talk a lot about how great high-speed data replication is. Naturally, I agree 🙂 It’s great. However, if something ever corrupts your source data, you’ll likely see an ugly side of speed – your target gets all the source’s corrupt data with sub-second latency.
Microdata & the microdata DOM API
(Chris Mills) One of the main problems HTML5 set out to solve was consistency (and therefore machine readability) of markup, evidenced by the introduction of standard semantic elements such as , and .
Set Element in SVG Animation
(Darla Ferrara) The set element in SVG animation provides a way to change a property within a shape suddenly. Animation works on a story-board basis. If you expand a circle using animate, the viewer sees each step of the action. The circle appears in its original size and then blows up like a balloo