(Chris Eaton) Anixter achieves application availability targets using DB2 pureScale. Great customer video from Anixter where they say the same thing I have said in my last 4 postings on pureScale;
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Indexers in C#
(Ankit Nandekar) C# introduces a new concept known as Indexers which are used for treating an object as an array. The indexers are usually known as smart arrays in C# community. Defining a C# indexer is much like defining properties. We can say that an indexer is a member that enables an object to b
The four fundamental performance metrics
(Baron Schwartz) There are many ways to slice and aggregate metrics of activity on a system such as MySQL. In the best case, we want to know everything about the system’s activity: we want to know how many things happened, how big they were, and how long they took.
Read and Write Text Files in SQL Server with CLR
(Alex Tocitu) You are a database developer looking for a common approach for handling read write access to text files. You may be a DBA wanting to write procedure execution results to files for documentation purposes. The code samples presented in this tip will get you started with text file content
PopUpFetch Option for Property Listener
(Andrejus Baranovskis) With previous JDeveloper/ADF 11g releases it was quite complicated to catch popup fetch event, we were overriding popup fetch listener inside managed bean and processing it. Its a good hint, things are simpler now – there is popupFetch property with Set Property Listener compo
Our favourite new features in DB2 10 z/OS – part 1
(Laura) Most releases of DB2 in the past have kept performance regression very low, with customers typically taking a CPU hit of less than 5% out of the box (and all or some of that could usually be clawed back later through implementing new function).
You should not disable the guest user in the msdb database in SQL Server
SQL Server Books Online recommends that you disable the guest user in every database as a best practice for securing the database server. This recommendation does not apply to master, msdb, and tempb system databases. In order for some Microsoft SQL Server features to work, the guest user must be en
Creating an Up and Down Voting User Interface
(Scott Mitchell) The Internet is awash in user-created content. Two billion videos are watched on YouTube every day. Over 3,000 images are uploaded to Flickr each minute. And there are an estimated 152 million bloggers creating content each day.
A quicker drop table within MySQL
(Trent Hornibrook) A drop table can be a timely locking operation though if a few preconditions are met we can reduce the locking time on the server and intern any performance consequence.
Web Scraping in ASP.NET with Regular Expression Matching and XML Transformation
(Song_Gao) Web scraping is a very useful technique when extracting information from websites. Sometimes it’s the best or even the only way to achieve your goals. This article demonstrates the structure of an ASP.NET web scraping application. The sample application retrieves Ontario Cabinet Ministers