(Scott Jamison) SharePoint 2010 is a popular tool for creating Intranets, customer portals, and almost any web-based solution, and as such, certification in SharePoint is highly valued by organizations looking to implement SharePoint.
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A Sanity Check for External Redundancy
(Eric Keen) As with any DBA my days are filled with what seem to be unrelated tasks to the profession – writing reports, attending meetings, installing releases, planning capacity, answering alerts, patching binaries and running upgrades. It is easy to forget three things I should be focusing on a
Oracle ADF 11g Custom Table Pagination
(Andrejus Baranovskis) In ADF 10g, table component was working only with pagination support, in ADF 11g table component was improved greatly and now it works with scrollable support. However, time to time we hear customer requests to provide pagination support for ADF 11g table, as it was in ADF 10g
MAXIMUM/MINIMUM Column Statistics – Part 2
(tonyhasler) Well it is now over four months since I wrote the part 1 of this blog. Apologies for the delay but I have been working long hours and travelling so my blog never made it to the top of the pile.
DB2 OLTP scale-out: pureScale
Tim Vincent of IBM talked me through DB2 pureScale Monday. IBM DB2 pureScale is a kind of shared-disk scale-out parallel OTLP DBMS, with some interesting twists. IBM’s scalability claims for pureScale, on a 90% read/10% write workload, include:
SQL SERVER – What Kind of Lock WITH (NOLOCK) Hint Takes on Object?
(Pinal Dave) Recently I was talking with Vinod Kumar regarding NOLOCK. Suddenly he asked me do I know what kind of lock WITH(NOLOCK) hint takes on object. The immediate response of mine was that NOLOCK does not take any lock. He responded suggesting that I should think more and answer.
Multiple purge threads in Percona Server 5.1.56 and MySQL 5.6.2
(Laurynas Biveinis) Part of the InnoDB duties, being an MVCC-implementing storage engine, is to get rid of–purge–the old versions of the records as they become obsolete. In MySQL 5.1 this is done by the master InnoDB thread. Since then, InnoDB has been moving towards the parallelized purge: in MyS
SQL Iterators: Making the Life of a SQL Server DBA That Much Easier
(Bob Taylor) Many Microsoft SQL Server DBAs automate as many of their day to day processes as possible, freeing them to attend to higher impact activities.
Access and visualize your master data with IBM Initiate Composer
(Karl Weinmeister) Learn how to use a web application toolkit that enables building master data management (MDM) powered applications. This article provides an overview of the JavaScript UI widgets, application templates, and configuration editor that is included with IBM Initiate Composer. You will
Your Javascript Constructor Logic May Break Prototypal Inheritance
(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, I was playing around with extending the EventEmitter class in Node.js when it suddenly occurred to me that I didn’t know enough about the implementation of the EventEmitter constructor.