(Austin Clifford, Garrett Fitzsimons and Richard Lubell) The key design goals of ingest application design are to balance the required rate of ingest with the availability of processing resources, to ingest data without affecting data availability, and to maintain flexibility in the volumes of data
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Highlighting repeating groups in SSRS 2008 R2 charts
(Siddharth Mehta) In a typical bar chart, the height of the bars represents the value of the data along the X axis and the Y axis represents the category of the data point. All these values can be classified in logical groups depending upon the logic used for analysis. One general requirement that a
Why NULL?
Why NULL? Let me open a can of worms here. Should you use/allow null in your databases? Personally, I’m very flexible on the use of null. I’m not going to move to 4th or 5th normal form in an OLTP database just to get rid of null values; although I’m not against the process either. What I am finding, however, […]
LINQ What is its Place? – More Reader Feedback
SelecTViews With Stephen Wynkoop Microsoft BI Expert Jen Underwood talks with Stephen about the ever-changing roles of the DBA. You won’t want to miss this. [Watch the Show] LINQ – What is its Place – More Reader Feedback This will be the last newsletter on this topic for a while. I have more responses from readers than I can possibly […]
ASP.NET: Accessing Nested Repeater Control
(Suprotim Agarwal) The ASP.NET Repeater control is a handy data-bound list control that allows you to create a custom layout by repeating a specified template for each item displayed in the list. You can nest a repeater control inside the other to create advanced layouts.
ASP.NET MVC: Improving Productivity with the WebGrid
(Peter Vogel) I appreciate ASP.NET MVC’s support for Test Driven Development but I’m less excited about gaining complete control over the HTML that goes down to the browser.
IOT 2 – First examples and proofs
(Martin Widlake) In my first post on IOTs I ran through the basics of what they are. Here I am going to create some test tables and show you a few things.
The two meanings of semantics in HTML5
(Lin) There is a lot of confusion around HTML5 and RDFa, both in the Drupal community and outside of it. That’s why I decided to redevelop my site in Drupal 7 with HTML5, using a base theme available on Drupal.org, to see for myself what it’s like using HTML5 and RDFa together.
Explore practical data mining and parsing with PHP
(Eli White) The art of data mining is a wide field, and mentioning the term to two different developers gives you two very different ideas about it. In this article, you learn what data mining is, its importance, different ways to accomplish data mining (or to create web-based data mining tools) and
When to use ViewBag, ViewData, or TempData in ASP.NET MVC 3 applications
(Rachel Appel) “When should I use a ViewBag vs. ViewData vs. TempData objects?” — a frequent question in online forums, during presentations, and at events. There are enough similarities and differences between these objects that warrant a closer look to see exactly how you can use each of these ob