(Robert Davis) SQL Server applications rely on data, and protecting that data has never been more important than it is today. SQL Server is a popular target for hackers, so your data is at risk of being intentionally compromised.
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Get the Most out of WebGrid in ASP.NET MVC
(Stuart Leeks) Earlier this year Microsoft released ASP.NET MVC version 3 (asp.net/mvc), as well as a new product called WebMatrix (asp.net/webmatrix). The WebMatrix release included a number of productivity helpers to simplify tasks such as rendering charts and tabular data.
ASP.NET 4.0 Web Control ClientID
(Pravinkumar Dabade) In ASP.NET, each web control is identified uniquely using the ‘ID’ property of the control. We can access the server controls in the code behind using this ‘ID’ property. However, when the web form with server side controls renders in the form of HTML, the server side ID gets co
Localizing the SharePoint User Interface by Using Resource Files
(Sanjay Arora) SharePoint localization consists primarily of translating the text in the user interface based on a given culture or language. This translation relies on resource files available to the system. To localize a solution, you remove hard-coded strings from the code and abstract them into
IBM’s Hadoop distribution
(Leons Petrazickis) My work for the past couple years has been to develop DB2 images and templates for various cloud platforms and to engage the DB2 community online.
SQL*Plus output in nice HTML format
(Uwe Hesse) Every DBA knows that: SQL*Plus is a powerful tool, but its output is often almost unreadable. Do we have to format everything carefully with col commands or change to a more comfortable GUI instead? No! The early Tanel Poder has shown an easy way to get nice HTML output from SQL*Plus bac
WHERE MOD(ROWNUM,100) = 0
(Charles Hooper) I saw an interesting search keyword the other day that generated several hits on my blog articles. The search keyword was simply:
More on Checksumming
(Gary Myers) Prompted by a comment I realise that I need to put some more flesh on Checksumming.
A comparison of HandlerSocket and mysql client libraries with Python
(Haidong Ji) I’ve done some benchmark testing of 2 Python modules for MySQL data retrieval: MySQLdb and pyhs. MySQLdb uses MySQL’s client libraries, whereas pyhs, which uses HandlerSocket that bypasses MySQL’s client layer and interfaces Innodb storage engine’s files directly. In my testing, Handler
Using Informix to capture TimeSeries data that overwhelms commodity databases
Neil Mulkern, IBM’er, explains why Informix is the right database for Smarter Planet systems.