(Timothy Ng) Lambda expressions, new in Visual Basic 2008, are a handy addition to any programmer’s toolbox. They are callable entities that are defined within a function, and they’re first-class citizens; you can return a lambda expression from a function and you can pass lambda expressions to othe
Other News
Out with cluster, hello replication
(Brian Moon) Well, I have written a good bit about MySQL Cluster this year. We had been using it as a sort of pregenerated cache for our forward facing web servers. However, we have decided on a different route.
Database Mirroring in Microsoft SQL Server 2005
(Amit Bansal) Fast failover with minimal data loss has traditionally involved higher hardware cost and greater software complexity. Database mirroring, however, can fail over quickly with no loss of committed data, does not require proprietary hardware, and is easy to set up and manage.
The Axis2 Web services toolkit
(William Brogden) The history of Apache Software Foundation Web service toolkits mirrors the evolution in developer understanding of SOAP and Web services concepts. The first Apache Software Foundation open source Web service related project was simply called SOAP. It was released in mid 2000 based
Providing Form-Based help for Managed COM Add-ins
(Dennis Wallentin) All my managed COM Add-ins solutions extensively use Windows forms. With .NET it’s very easy to create help that are directly associated with Windows forms which I hope this blogpost also will show.
Handling exceptions across sequential invocations of SCA business process components in WebSphere Process Server
(Francis DiNardo) This article describes a technique for handling exceptions across sequential invocations of multiple WebSphere Process Server Service Component Architecture business process components. It proposes the use of fault handlers in a pattern that allows the capture of exceptions as earl
Do you always need index on WHERE column?
(Vadim Tkachenko) I believe we wrote about this before, but this topic popups again and again.
Monitoring SQL Server Performance
(Steven Warren) In Windows, you can monitor your system performance by using the Performance monitor console and its related counters. These counters allow you to view or save information about the overall performance of your server(s). The Performance monitor has access to hundreds of counters that
Business Intelligence and Data Mining VS Privacy and Ownership
New Weekly SQL Server Show Posted SelectViews: Legacy application upgrade choices, T-SQL JOINs, upcoming events and more. Also looking at privacy expectations and business intelligence – a problematic match? This is show number 79, and you can also find out how to win $200 in the drawing, information about current SQL Server versions and service packs and all sorts of […]
Citrix Expands ‘Conversations’ With XML
(Sean Michael Kerner) Citrix is acquiring XML and Web Services technology vendor QuickTree in an effort to expand the conversation between users and applications.