Reader Response – Null and MOD Last time I introduced the topic of null from a different light. Usually, those opposed to the use of null, are approaching it from a perspective of “Why store nothing if nothing is what you really have.” I submitted a practical reason; if you allow null in your data, you are required to have […]
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Custom Paging for GridView
(Harsh Gupta) I don’t care for the built-in Paging technique for GridView, and neither do many other developers who don’t want to recreate the GridView Control or buy a third party control for the same.
Understanding The Complex And Circular Relationships Between Objects In JavaScript
(Ben Nadel) A couple of months ago, when reading JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford, I have to admit that there was some code discussed in the book that really threw my brain through a loop.
Debugging ASP.NET Applications Interactively on Production
(Tanzim Saqib) Production is often like a blackbox to the developers. An ideal server system does not have Visual Studio installed. If it is your website that is hosted in such a server, I hope there are couple ways you trap critical application messages and see how your application is doing.
DBMS_STATS And Direct Path Operations
(Neil Johnson) Continuing my theme of (almost pointless) testing that DBMS_STATS does as you would hope, this post proves the answer to the question below that was posed at my work place.
How big is my oracle database?
(Matt Canning) People ask this question a lot on the internet and most of the answers just seem to focus on a query of dba_data_files, similar to that shown below:
Using PL/SQL and SQL to change profile options for Oracle R12 EBS
(Ben Prusinski) Recently I had to fix an unusual problem with Oracle R12 (12.1.1) E-Business Suite system after changing some default timeout parameters.
Whatever Happened To … And What’s That About a Semantic UI-Inspired Tablet?
(Jennifer Zaino) Will some semantic web mysteries soon be solved? There’s been some chatter in the last few weeks about how some semantic technologies acquired by some giants in the IT space will at last see the light of day in their respective platforms. At the same time, the publicity engine has b
Using Multiple Vocabularies in Microdata
(Jeni Tennison) I wrote the other day about how legislation.gov.uk needs to share data at three levels to satisfy its goals as a website:
Optimizing SQL Server Performance in a Virtual Environment
(Denny Cherry) Just a few years ago installing SQL Server on a virtual machine (VM) was pretty much taboo. Today, this is no longer the case. Installing SQL Server on a VM is a common practice in many SQL Server deployments. Here are seven tips for achieving optimal performance when running SQL Serv