(Mika Wendelius) SQL Server doesn’t have so many aggregates to use. The basics, such as COUNT, MIN, MAX etc, are implemented but still the list is quite small. This may lead to situation where some of the calculations must be done in procedures, functions or even at client side.
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A Tester’s War Story
.Net on the Android I have seen forum questions regarding the ability to code for smart phones in .Net. Up until now only the Windows Phone supported .Net applications. I have done some phone app programming for the Motorola phones using Eclipse and the Motorola SDKs. I remember the learning curve being a little steep because of the difference in […]
A Decade of Agile
SelecTViews Artificial Intelligence….how close have we come and what does it take? Check out Watson! You may have seen him on Jeopardy! – Stephen Baker is on the show talking about what was learned with the project. Stephen Baker wrote the book (literally) on the Watson project and all that it entailed – do not miss this show… Watch the […]
An Argument for Memory Profiling for Your .NET Applications
(Memphisto) Every application is gauged by the memory footprint it makes, be it a mobile application or a thick application running on your desktop. Believe the statistics or not, people just love applications that are light-weight.
Changing an XML Response to an HTML output using a Map
(Nitin Mehrotra) Recently, I was working on a BizTalk Server solution where I received an XML response that was supposed to go out on an e-mail. Well, there’s no big deal about it.. just route the XML response to the SMTP port. But there was another requirement, I wanted the XML response to be strip
Page Layouts in SharePoint
(Kirk Evans) I have been working on a customer solution and have gotten to do some fun coding this week. As usual, I wanted to share it with you so that you can maybe learn a few new ways of working with SharePoint. The business problem is that the business wants users to view and accept a Terms &
Using ROWNUM in the Where Clause Causes Problems
(Charles Hooper) A couple of years ago a very well written article appeared in Oracle Magazine that described how to use ROWNUM in the WHERE clause, and also why using ROWNUM might not work quite as expected.
af:table – Restoring the basic browser copy functionality
(Chris Muir) One of the first things any computing user learns is how to select text with the mouse or keyboard, then copy & paste the selected text. This simple functionality is supported in most applications including browsers, making it a very familiar facility to all users.
SASH visualization using Excel
(Marcin Przepiorowski) OraSASH is a free implementation of Oracle Active Session History mechanism but it is providing only raw tables with data. To help other people use that functionality and inspired by Charles Hooper blog I have created a Excel based simple GUI interface for SASH.
My db2 success story: Five things to check when you see high memory usage on db server
(Sameer Kumar) Hi, so I am back with my blog sequence of db2 has talent… I know I have been little late with this one… But can not help it when India is playing cricket world cup… They finally won it… After 28 long years… First host nation to have won it… So had given up everything else