(Scott Guthrie) ASP.NET MVC 3 supports a new view-engine option called “Razor” (in addition to continuing to support/enhance the existing .aspx view engine). Razor minimizes the number of characters and keystrokes required when writing a view template, and enables a fast, fluid coding workflow.
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Input parameters scenario in SQL Stored Procedure (SQL Server 2005/2008)
(Vishal Nayan) To increase the flexibility of stored procedures and perform more complex processing, we can pass parameters to procedures. The parameters can be used anywhere that local variables can be used within the procedure code.
IBM Cognos Proven Practices: IBM Cognos Enhanced Search Proven Practice
(Matthew Postle-Hacon) A best practice for configuring Enhanced Search services, as well as creating and maintaining your search index.
Using PowerShell to Pull SQL Server Services Configuration Info
(Shawn Melton) Is there a way to pull information about the SQL Server services running on a server, without using SQL Server Configuration Manager?
How Will Mobile OS Change the Way We Do Business?
How Will Mobile OS Change the Way We Do Business? Decades ago there was a dream of once again centralizing systems with clients running on hardware not much more intelligent than old Mainframe terminals. IT would have better control of applications because they would be executed from a central location such as Citrix or Unix. There was the dream of […]
Compensating for Bad Schema – Views
Compensating for Bad Schema – Views Views are another tool used to compensate for a bad schema. I have been using the term Bad Schema for a couple days now…and want to qualify the statement. The same schema may be bad in one situation and not bad in a different one. In a reporting database you consistently find a highly […]
XQuery on SQL Hosts
(Torsten Grust, Sherif Sakr and Jens Teubner) Relational database systems may be turned into e±cient XML and XPath processors if the system is provided with a suitable relational tree encoding. This paper extends this relational XML processing stack and shows that an RDBMS can also serve as a highly
Oracle Spatial User Conference 2011 Wrap Up
(Joe Francica) The Oracle Spatial User Conference is a single day event with about 150 people and was held in Washington, D.C. last week. It was the first time the meeting was held in DC and the first time it was not held in conjunction with the GITA Annual conference.
Dealing with blob data in HealthVault XML
(Eric Gunnerson) I recently had a request for more information on dealing with blob data using our newly-released Mobile support, which finally got me to write something about low-level blob support.
PHP replication plugin future: eventual consistent, eventual served from cache!
(Ulf Wendel) While Andrey is busy implementing partitioned replication infrastructure code for the PHP replication and load balancing plugin (PECL/mysqlnd_ms), I continued my search for ideas to steal.