(Denny Cherry) Microsoft’s Parallel Data Warehouse, released last year for SQL Server 2008 R2, was designed to compete with products like Oracle Exadata and Teradata, allowing for truly massive workloads on a system that could scale data across multiple physical machines while still using the Micros
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Surround with feature in Visual Studio 2010
(Jalpesh) Everyday I am discovering something new with Visual Studio 2010 and today Once again I have discovered a new feature called “Surround with” feature. This feature is quite useful when you have very big HTML element and You want to surround it some HTML or ASP.NET element i.e.
Getting Started with RESTful Web Services Using JAX-RS
(Jesse Smith) Web services have been out for awhile now. For some time, you could only create non-RESTful web services using the JAX-RPC specification. Working with web services early on became somewhat painful, as you had to do a lot of XML parsing which created large packet payloads traversing the
Archive logging revisited; Where are my archive logs
(James Koopmann) Let’s begin with the basics. In the last article I ventured down the path of a default installation to show where the destinations for archive logs where. For this article I’d like to, as default installation aren’t quite adequate, progress through the various different options avai
ER-Diagram of the InnoDB Data Dictionary
(Shinguz) With the new MySQL 5.6 release there are some more InnoDB Data Dictionary Tables in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA:
IOT part 3 – Significantly Reducing IO
(Martin Widlake) In the previous two posts I covered the basics of Index Organized Tables (IOTs) and then created some test tables to demonstrate the benefit of IOTs that is most often covered – reducing the IO needed to get a single record by one IO, say from 5 to 4. {Whether this is a buffer get f
DB2 for z/OS BIND/REBIND get some very powerful, very cool new options
(Willie Favero) Today’s post may not be new news to a lot of you; we have been talking about these new BIND/REBIND options for a while now. What IS new news is the APAR that delivers these new options closed on July 27. After the application of APAR 25679, you can use everything in this post.
An Example to Use jQuery Grid Plugin in MVC – Part 1
(Dr. Song Li) This article presents a simple example on how to use jQuery Grid Plugin in MVC.
Drawing Complex Lines
(Darla Ferrara) In lesson 2, we covered a simple line, now let’s look at drawing complex lines. A simple line goes from point A to point B with no interruptions. Not all lines are straight, so the simple line is not going to work in some situations.
Max concurrent connections, queries and transactions
(Mark Callaghan) We limit the maximum number of concurrent connections per database account via the max_user_connections option. We are more interested in limiting the maximum number of concurrent queries and transactions per account to reasonable values while allowing much larger numbers of connect