(Ben Nadel) This is just a note to self. But, for what feels like decades, I’ve struggled to clearly highlight text within a graphics file. Historically, I’ve positioned a yellow rectangle above the target text; and then, lowered the opacity on the rectangle in order to allow the highlighted text to
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GoldenGate 19.1.0.0.4 Silent Install
(mdinh) GoldenGate install is so easy; don’t bother with GUI install.
Portable Elmax: C++ XML DOM Parser
(Shao Voon Wong) Portable Elmax is a cross-platform, non-validating XML DOM parser written in C++. Prior to this edition, there is another non-portable edition based on MSXML.
What is SQL Server
(Jeremy Kadlec) I am new to SQL Server and I have heard the term used in a number of different capacities and in different contexts. So, what exactly is it? What are the common components? How does it work? How do people use it? I am brand new to the technology, so where do I get started?
Group Replication and Percona XtraDB Cluster: Overview of Common Operations
(Tibor Korocz) In this blog post I would like to give an overview of the most common failover scenarios and operations when using MySQL Group Replication 8.0.19 (aka GR) and Percona XtraDB Cluster 8 (PXC) (which is based on Galera), and explain how each technology handles each situation.
Query Tags in EF Core for ASP .NET Core 3.1 Web Apps
(Shahed C) This is the seventeenth of a new series of posts on ASP .NET Core 3.1 for 2020. In this series, we’ll cover 26 topics over a span of 26 weeks from January through June 2020, titled ASP .NET Core A-Z!
In-memory opportunities abound
(Connor McDonald) There has always been a bit of a Catch-22 with some of the really cool options in the Oracle Database. You want to explore the value of them, but you don’t want to draw the ire of any licensing implications of doing so.
SQL SERVER – Turning OFF or ON Query Store for All the Database
(Pinal Dave) Yesterday I wrote about the topic SQL SERVER – Query Store Status for All the Databases. After reading the blog post, I got quite a few emails about various scripts related to the Query Store.
Angular Routing With Navigation
(Chaman Gautam) Routing is a mechanism used by Angular for navigating the page and displaying the appropriate page and component on the browser.
How Hard is MySQL Working?
Queries per second (QPS) measures database throughput, but it does not reflect how hard MySQL is working. The latter is measured by Threads_running, expressed as a gauge (whereas QPS is a rate).