(Shawn Cicoria) This post is to report some differences when using MVC or IHttpHandlers if you’re attempting to set the Cache-control : max-age or s-maxage value under IIS7.x using the HttpResponse.Cache methods.
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Take Unit Testing to the Next Level
(Jeff Levinson) Many teams today use Agile techniques such as Test-Driven Development (TDD), eXtreme Programming or just a heavy use of unit testing to verify functionality. One of the gaps in unit testing is the ability to map unit tests to requirements to get an overall view of the requirements co
Implementing Database Settings Using Policy Based Management
(Ashish Kumar Mehta) Database Administrators have always had a tough time to ensuring that all the SQL Servers administered by them are configured according to the policies and standards of organization.
XPath query for date ranges
(Eric Gunnerson) You can set the appropriate Xpath query string with the exact date range values to filter the records between. In Xpath Queries, you don’t need to convert any date values to UniversalTime because you are using the Xpath query string of the Thing types.
How to add an article to an existing Transactional Subscription initialized through backup
(Sakthivel Chidambaram) There are situations where you initialize a Transactional subscription from a backup and later you need to add an article. If the publication was created using Snapshot Replication, you can re-run the Snapshot Agent and only the newly added article is BCP’ed out then BCP’ed i
Improve your ROI with DB2 for z/OS and WebSphere
With the pervasive growth of new e-business and mobile applications, professionals who use and manage IBM DB2 for z/OS need to understand how Java applications interact with DB2 — or risk impacting your customers’ experience.
Oracle compatibility in DB2: Some strings attached
(Henrik Loeser) One of the great features that came with DB2 9.7 is the so-called SQL compatibility. That is, DB2 supports a bigger part Oracle’s SQL syntax and the related semantics.
SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Integration Services – Managing Remote Processes Using Script Task
(Marcin Policht) In the recent articles published on this forum, we have described a couple of methods that allow you to launch arbitrarily chosen processes using SQL Server 2008 R2 Integration Services. While the scope of the first of them (relying on Execute Process Task) was restricted to the loc
Oracle Exadata Performance series – Part 1: Should I use Hugepages on Linux Database Nodes?
(Tanel Poder) There was a question in LinkedIn forum about whether Linux Hugepages should be used in Oracle Exadata Database layer, as they aren’t enabled by default during ACS install. I’m putting my answer into this blog entry – apparently LinkedIn forums have a limit of 4000 characters per reply.
Exception Handler for Method Calls inside ADF Task Flows with Fragments
(Andrejus Baranovskis) In regular case, when JboException is thrown from the Model, it is rendered in UI within popup component automatically. This works fine, when we are calling operation bindings directly.