(Dominique Vernier) The image parameters of an IBM Cloud image can be retrieved via a URL called manifest which is provided by the image description.
Other News
Detecting which button was clicked in MVC
(Simon J Ince) I’ve seen a few hacks in the past to try and work out which button caused a form POST in ASP.NET MVC, but the truth is it is pretty easy.
Is ADR really Automatic?
(Fahd Mirza) Oracle has consolidated the diagnostic information of database under one umbrella called as Automatic Diagnostic Repository (ADR). This repository is XML-based and that opens up new vistas for future Oracle diagnostic tools to manipulate the hierarchical data.
Top 5 Mistakes in Designing an ASP.NET Web Form
(Laura Kihlken) Having a good user interface design is what separates the best web sites from the rest. Anyone can build a functionally sound web form. Building a web form that allows users to quickly and efficiently enter their data and move on is another story.
DB2 for z/OS Roles: Trust Me on This One (Part 1)
(Robert Catterall) Although roles and trusted contexts have been on the mainframe DB2 scene for over three years (they were introduced with DB2 9 for z/OS), there is still some misunderstanding in the DB2 community regarding what these features are and how they can be used.
Finding your way around SQL Server data preservation
(Serdar Yegulalp) Most database administrators have been there. There’s been a massive change to many rows or to the schema of a table, and there’s a real need to look at what happened to the data before and after those changes.
Service SQL functionality now supplied through a stored procedure
(Willie Favero) You find what you think is a possible optimizer error. You’ve run the SQL multiple times and check the access path with various tools. Something just doesn’t seem quite right.
Interesting MySQL 5.5 upgrade gotcha
(Ronald Bradford) Today I discovered an interesting upgrade problem with a client migrating from MySQL 5.0 to 5.5. The client who is undertaking the upgrade reported that MySQL 5.5 did not support the DECIMAL(18,5) data type. I easily confirmed this not to be the case:
Exploring Race Conditions In Javascript With SetInterval(), SetTimeout(), And AJAX
(Ben Nadel) In a server-side programming language like ColdFusion, use of parallel constructs like CFThread can easily lead to race conditions. Heck, even something as seemingly atomic as the ++ operator can fall subject to race conditions.
How to Communicate Between SSBS Applications Across Instances
(Arshad Ali) SQL Server Service Broker (SSBS) is a new architecture (introduced with SQL Server 2005 and enhanced further in SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2), which allows you to write asynchronous, decoupled, distributed, persistent, reliable, scalable and secure queuing/message based applic