(Gil Fink) In the middle of 2008, Microsoft published the first version of the Entity Framework (Entity Framework 1) as part of Visual Studio 2008 SP1. The Entity Framework was created as an object-relational mapping (OR/M) tool that helps create an abstraction layer on top of ADO.NET namespaces. Wh
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Extending EventEmitter To Create An Evented Cache In Node.js
(Ben Nadel) As I’ve started to play around with Node.js, the EventEmitter class is quickly becoming one of my favorite classes. The EventEmitter class can be extended in order to provide sub-classes with publication and subscription (pub/sub) functionality.
Taming big data
(Lisa K. Stapleton) The realm of huge information flows is governed by new rules. What changes in the multi-petabyte world? And how will big data change what you do?
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 […]
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Compensating for Bad Schema – Triggers
SelecTViews With Stephen Wynkoop Mongo for Windows Phone SDK available, SQL Injection in the Cloud, an Interview with Sherri McDonald about SSRS and training coming soon [Watch the Show] Compensating for Bad Schema – Triggers Triggers are a great asset to any DBA. They allow a database to react to modification of data through Insert, Update or Delete actions. They […]
Extending the Interface Accelerator
(dallan) Carrying on the automate, automate theme, here’s an illustration of some really useful capabilities using the ODI 11g SDK which make it more powerful, carrying on from the post on the simple accelerator that I posted here. In this posting I had a simple control file that mapped some table t
Finding an optimal balance of I/O, CPU, and RAM for MySQL
(Baron Schwartz) For a long time I’ve wanted to know how MySQL scales as you add more memory to the server. Vadim recently benchmarked the effects of increasing memory and CPU core count. He looked for a balance between utilizing the hardware as much as possible, limiting the system complexity, and
JAXB and DTD – Apache log4j Example
(Blaise Doughan) There is a common misconception that JAXB requires an XML Schema. This is understandable since JAXB offers the ability to derive Java classes from an XML schema, and generate XML schemas from annotated Java classes.
Using Calendar Control in ASP.NET
(Sivaraman Dhamodaran) The Calendar control in ASP.Net allows you to pick a date. Why do we need a control like this for picking a date that involves navigation when it is easy to type the date in a specific format on a textbox? Well, a Calendar control is usually used as a calendar and the control