(Ben Nadel) What I know about encryption can be summed up as: encrypt(), decrypt(), and hash(). Meaning, I know how to use encryption functions and create one-way hashes; but, my understanding of cryptography doesn’t go much deeper than that.
Other News
A Tale of Session Parameter Settings
(Kellyn Pot’Vin) This is another blog post about how TEMP can kill you in performance.
Dynamically Change Chart Control Type in ASP.NET 4.0
(Abhijit Jana) ASP.NET 4.0 introduced inbuilt chart controls features. This Chart control has several types like Line, Column, Pie etc. In this post I am going to talk about how you can change the ASP.NET Chart Control Type on the fly.
Improve the display of data with a ValueConverter in Silverlight
(Ged Mead) Silverlight is great for binding data sources directly to controls. And if you use a DataTemplate, you can display the data in varied and interesting ways. One small problem that can occur with this though is in those cases where you want to tweak the look of selected items of data depend
Limiting Rows When Retrieving Table Data
(Joel Murach) In this fifth part of a nine-part article series on retrieving data from Oracle databases with the SELECt statement, you’ll learn how to use the DISTINCT keyword and ROWNUM pseudo column to limit the number of rows returned.
IOT Part 4 – Greatly Boosting Buffer Cache Efficiency
(Martin Widlake) So far I have covered the basics of Index Organized Tables, created some examples and shown how IOTs can help reduce the cost of single row selects and then how they can greatly aid range scans. Follow the above links for details.
SharePoint 2010 and the document ID some notes
(Joerg Sinemus) With SharePoint Server 2010 we got the ability to stamp our documents with a “Document ID”. We have also a couple of documentation about this, how it works and why enabling takes some time…
How to Easily See Who’s Connected to Your MySQL Server
(Shlomo Priymak) I’m posting this here since it has been useful for me, and the blog is a nice place to keep public notes.
Debugging Configuration Issues on the Server Using Reports and T-SQL views
(Da Lin) With the built-in reports and TSQL views, Integration Services in SQL Server “Denali” allows you easily identify the root cause of the execution failure. In the following example, the execution failed because the server name was incorrect. This post will guide you through how to use these b
C# Questions Answered: Lambda, C# Traps, Unsafe Code
(Patrick Steele) My June issue column on Lambda Properties (“Lambda Properties: An Alternative to Subclassing?”) elicited a number of good questions. One of which was simply: What is the performance or memory impact of lambda properties versus inheritance?