(Buck Woody) In the previous article in this series, I explained a little about the latest IT buzzword: NoSQL. I described where it came from, and why the data professional, specifically the SQL Server professional needs to care about it.
Other News
MVVM: Tips when implementing INotifyPropertyChanged
(ScottBurk67) A friend of mine wrote recently and asked the following question regarding an implementation of the MVVM pattern: “Is it generally desirable to implement INotifyPropertyChanged on Model classes, ViewModel classes, or both?”
Working with FusionCharts using ASP.NET
(Anand Narayanaswamy) Nowadays, users are constantly looking for more intuitive user interfaces. Because of this, it is vital to develop ASP.NET applications with diagrams such as Charts. FusionCharts enables you to plug-in several charts from a wide range of sources easily with a small amount of co
Ask Ben: When To Provide Default Values In ColdFusion
(Ben Nadel) Having read “Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion” by Matt Gifford, I’m excitedly getting into creating components. With lots of functions. So as I was coding, I started thinking about CFFunction and CFArgument, and came up with a question I couldn’t answer: Generally, when supplyin
Unique Index Result Error with Ref Cursor on Oracle 11g but Not on 10g
(Charles Hooper) You might expect to see some differences when upgrading from one release version of Oracle Database to another release version (edit June 6, 2011: see this article for expected changes when upgrading from 10g to 11g).
Delete removes rows, eh?
(Michael McLaughlin) It started as a smart remark, “The DELETE FROM statement always removes one or more rows from a table when any are found, except when the table isn’t a table.” That exception is true when the table isn’t a schema-level table but a nested table in an Oracle database.
Understanding the .NET Task Parallel Library TaskScheduler
(Jeffrey Juday) The most talented orchestra will sound uninspired without an equally talented conductor. Similar conclusions can be drawn to a Parallel Programming workload conductor. The .NET Task Parallel Library (TPL) Parallel programming conductor is the TaskScheduler.
How to quickly produce XML from relational tables
(Matthias Nicola) In DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, the quickest and easiest way to produce XML from relational tables is to use the function XMLROW or XMLGROUP. The following examples illustrates how this works.
Controlling Logging Output
(Duncan Mills) So far in this series I’ve just been concentrating on how to add logging calls to your code. That’s all very well but frankly, not a lot of use without some way to switch all that on.
Merge Backup Now Available for DB2 LUW
(Chris Eaton) IBM has just recently released a new product that I think you should all at least take a look at (it could save you a lot of grief). Called DB2 Merge Backup for LUW, this feature can take your incremental backups and merge them with your last full backup to create a new backup image t