(Bobby Curtis) Automation is all the rage now; yet I’ve though automation has been the key to a lot of improvements over the years. Part of any automation process is to make the process simple to use and repeatable.
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How to identify and resolve SQL Server Index Fragmentation
(Jignesh Raiyani) In this article, we will learn how to identify and resolve Index Fragmentation in SQL Server. Index fragmentation identification and index maintenance are important parts of the database maintenance task.
Cinchoo ETL – JSON Writer
ChoETL is an open source ETL (extract, transform and load) framework for .NET. It is a code based library for extracting data from multiple sources, transforming, and loading into your very own data warehouse in .NET environment. You can have data in your data warehouse in no time.
Encryption Protection for your Application and SQL Databases
(Jeremy Kadlec) Your organization has a number of “legacy” SQL Server instances and data centric applications that have grown over the years to support your core business needs and come up to compliance.
MySQL Security – Dual Password Support
(Olivier Dasini) When thinking about security within a MySQL installation, you can consider a wide range of possible procedures / best practices and how they affect the security of your MySQL server and related applications.
Unit Testing in ASP .NET Core 3.1
(Shahed C) This is the twenty-first 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!
EF Core In depth – what happens when EF Core writes to the database?
(Jon P Smith) This article is the second “under the hood” view of what happens when you use EF Core. The first was about reading from the database, and this article is about writing to the database.
AWS Shop example: Smoke and performance tests
(Frederique Retsema) In the previous blog, I talked about unit tests of the AWS Shop example [1]. Today, I will continue with a smoke test and a performance test.
Architecting a Cloud-Native Service with .NET and AWS
(Steve Gordon) At Madgex, we are currently building out v6 of our world-leading job board software. With v6, we are breaking the monolith and applying a microservices architecture.
patch the unpatchable
(Martin Berger) Oracle provides several VM for demo and training purpose. One of them is the Database Virtual Box Appliance / Virtual Machine. It’s very clear these VMs are only for testing purpose.