(Jason Thomas) The last couple of days, I have been fiddling around with an interesting mdx query passed on to me by Hrvoje Piasevoli (blog | twitter | MSDN). Though I wouldn’t be explaining about the query as Hrvoje himself would blog about it soon (once he gets off the SSAS forums and twitter, whi
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Smart Scans Meet Storage Indexes
(Arup Nanda) The Oracle Exadata Database Machine brings database performance to a whole new level, but have you ever wondered what exactly makes it so fast? Several components of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, such as Oracle Database 11g Release 2; Oracle Exadata’s Smart Flash Cache, Hybrid Co
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(Darla Ferrara) Understanding the terminology is a crucial part of learning to build gradient colors in SVG. A gradient allows you to fade one color into another to design a distinctive effect. As you go through the tutorials, or work in this language, use this page to brush up on the relevant terms
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Do You Write SOLID Code – Day 3
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Do you write SOLID code? – Day 2
DBTechCon – Spring 2011 DBTechCon is in full swing. Already I have a backlog of sessions I want to watch…there is so much great content. Be sure to check your schedule today as day two of DBTechCon continues.. Do you write SOLID code? – Day 2 SOLID is an acronym from Robert Martin defining five basic principles of object oriented […]
RDF Steps Carefully Forward
(sandhawke) 18 months ago, when Ivan Herman and I began to plan a new RDF Working Group, I posted my RDF 2 Wishlist. Some people complained that the Semantic Web was not ready for anything different; it was still getting used to RDF 1. I clarified that gRDF 2 would be backward compatible and not
Automate Tedious Debugging Tasks Using Debug Analyzer.NET
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Xeround Autoscales MySQL
(Sean Michael Kerner) How do you figure out how much database capacity you actually need?