(Heather Havenstein) IBM rolled out a suite of performance management software designed to ensure that business intelligence applications that support critical company operations like call center support perform adequately.
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Exploring Lambda Expression Trees
(Paul Kimmel) For the most part, I’ll assume you have a basic idea of what a Lambda Expression is. I will provide a very quick overview, but the focus is on the difference between Lambda Expressions that are emitted as code and those that are emitted as expression trees and what their different uses
Researchers discover buffer overflow flaw in IBM Lotus Notes
(Arun Radhakrishnan) Researchers at Core Security Technologies discovered a rare bug in IBM’s Lotus Notes Software that allows attackers to run malicious software on users’ PCs.
VS 2008 Compatibility with Older VS 2005 Add-in Packages
(Scott Guthrie) I’ve helped a few people over the last week who have run into issues with VS 2008 where it would immediately crash when the IDE was launched, or upon creating new projects (usually failing with a “Visual Studio has encountered an unexpected error” dialog).
Use custom collations in XSLT 2.0
(Doug Tidwell) One emphasis of XSLT 2.0 is better support for internationalization, especially sorting and comparing text. This seemingly simple task is quite complicated in some languages; for example, accented characters can be considered the same or different depending on context. Are Á , À and A
Silverlight XAML Primer 1: Exploring Canvases
(Dan Wahlin) Silverlight 1.0 supports two key technologies that can be used to generate rich content that’s displayed to users through a Web browser. Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) can be used to declaratively define shapes, text, media, animations and transformations using XML syntax
Content of base table SYS.PROPS$
(Marco Gralike) A long long time ago (during my Oracle 7 days), I once needed to update base table SYS.PROPS$. This action was needed to change the database NLS characterset of US7ASCII to a characterset that would support GERMAN. Based on a metalink note, updating the SYS.PROPS$ base table, was the
GET_LOCK & FAMILY
(Parvesh Garg) Again I have a well neglected and documented feature of MySQL. As we all often need and use locks in MySQL, we tend to forget (or not bother about) MySQL internals and how they cause trouble. For example, try something like LOCK TABLE … WRITE on an InnoDB table in a transaction and
Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.3/2 – Using Aggregate Tables – Aggregate Persistence Wizard
(Venkatakrishnan J) One of the users of BI EE had sent me an email yesterday asking about the various options for improving performance of reports in BI EE. There are lots of options available in BI EE to improve the performance of reports in general. One of the widely used ones is the use of Aggreg
Back to the Basics: Dropping UNUSED columns in Oracle
In our back to basic series today, we will show another approach of dropping columns from the table. Normally columns are dropped using ‘ALTER TABLE..DROP COLUMN’ syntax. There is also a DROP UNUSED COLUMN clause, using which we can drop all the unwanted columns from the table. Let us see it by ex