What Tool Should You Learn Next? As a follow on to yesterdays editorial about keeping your skills current I wanted to consider how to choose what skills to keep current. I have been following a thread regarding which language is better, C# or VB.net. I don’t have an answer, and none of the responders to the thread had any definitive […]
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Take Control of Your Ongoing Education
SelecTViews: With Stephen Wynkoop Find out the latest news involving EMC’s ProSphere, Microsoft’s lifecycle plan for Windows XP and more. [Watch the Show] Take Control of Your Ongoing Education As a follow-up of the last editorial, I would like to provide some ideas of how you can keep your skills current without relying on your employer. Realistically, your employer is […]
Table Auditing with XML
(Matt Wollner) When working with meta data tables it can be very useful to track when people make changes to the data. How do you track any change against any number of columns for any table?
Good XML design and performance
(Evan Lenz) MarkLogic has always tried to ensure that well-designed XML performs well “as is” in MarkLogic Server. For example, if your schema uses descriptive, unique element names, that is not only going to make your application code clean and readable but it will be fast too.
WPF 4.0 : Editable ListBox using Commanding for Data Templates
(Mahesh Sabnis) We often face requirements to display data in different UI Layouts. Some users like to view data in a Tabular form using DataGrid, while some like to view data in a List form record-by-record. Along with viewing, users also perform Update and Delete operations on the records displaye
The DB2 DBA: Identifying Indexes with Shared Access Paths
(Michael Sansoterra) The SysIndexStat catalog view has the column Owning_Index_Owner (plus schema, system names, etc.). However, that catalog view does not include constraint-created indexes, nor does it include keyed logical and physical files that share the access path owned by an SQL index.
Model Metadata and Validation Localization using Conventions
(Phil Haack) By default, ASP.NET MVC leverages Data Annotations to provide validation. The approach is easy to get started with and allows the validation applied on the server to “float” to the client without any extra work.
Triton go a bit Marmite!
(Laura) Feedback on our DB2 Geek video so far has been a bit mixed. The reaction has definitely been a bit Marmite – some loved it, some loathed it!
Dealing with multiple tnsnames.ora files on a windows client – Part 2
(Matt Canning) In part 1 of this blog, we discussed how to deal with multiple tnsnames.ora files on a windows client by using the TNS_ADMIN variable. This ensures that each Oracle installation on the client uses the same central file.
Partitioned outer join bug
(Rob van Wijk) I have experienced a strange bug when constructing an example showing how a partitioned outer join works. I used a setup which resembles a situation I have consulted about recently for timeseries data.