(Radim Kolar) If you are updating DB2 Express C on Linux to newly released 9.7.4 version, follow my instructions in older blog post.
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Impact of Consistent Reads
(Craig Shallahamer) For sure there is a cost for read consistency. But is that cost significant? Can users feel the difference? Does it require significant computing resources? Like many things in Oracle, perhaps this entire discussion is more academic and just makes for interesting presentations an
XtraBackup Manager – Backup Strategies and Materialized Snapshots
(Lachlan Mulcahy) I have now committed the changes for the new Backup Strategies feature to trunk! In addition, I’m pretty much finished on implementing the majority of the Materialized Snapshot feature/option.
Concept Overide vs Method Hiding in terms of C#
(Abhishek Sur) Overriding is one of the most interesting topic that many software professionals are dealing with quite regularly. Most of the applications we write in .NET or other languages somehow uses overriding. While you write your class, one of the most important thing that you need to conside
JAXB and Factory Methods
(Blaise Doughan) Everyone knows that by default JAXB uses the no-argument constructor when instantiating objects. Readers of this blog are also familiar with using XmlAdapters to build objects. In this post I’ll cover how the use of factory classes and methods can be configured through the @XmlTyp
Migrating Oracle ANYDATA to SQL Server
(Welly Lee, Pinaki Bag and Jayakumar Tanneru) Oracle has an object data type called anydata. This data type supports wide range of data types. For example when creating a table with a column defined as anydata type, the column can store many types of data from string to numeric.
Query Plans – Who Needs Them
Query Plans – Who Needs Them A while back I wrote about Query Plans asking the question “How Much Do You Need to Know About Query Plans?” I’m curious who is taking the time to use this powerful tool? For example, as a SharePoint administrator, do you find yourself having to optimize queries? Are you an accidental DBA finding that […]
Dynamic Sitemap and Navigation in ASP.Net
In this ASP.Net programming tutorial you will learn how to create dynamic (and automatic) navigation menus using ScionSitemapProvider without needing to update web.sitemap manually.
Expose WCF 4.0 Service as SOAP and REST
(Mahesh Sabnis) WCF services in enterprises are used for developing distributed enterprise application. There are lots of advantages of using WCF services. WCF service can be exposed on multiple endpoints e.g. HTTP, TCP etc. and the client applications have a choice to select the specific endpoint f
Generic Way to Bind Enum With Different ASP.NET List Controls
(Abhijit Jana) In this post I am going to explain how we can bind a Enum with ASP.NET List Controls. These comprise of four different types of control, CheckBoxList, DropDownList, ListBox and RadioButtonList.