(David Ramel) Microsoft has open sourced GW-BASIC, a programming language developed some 38 years ago.
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More Performant Serverless GraphQL with Azure Functions, GraphQL for .NET, and Cosmos DB
(Tomasz Pêczek) Almost a year ago I’ve written about setting up a GraphQL service on top of Azure Functions and Cosmos DB.
Generating A Word Search Puzzle Grid In Angular 9.1.4
(Ben Nadel) Over the weekend, I felt like coding a little palette-cleanser – something that would take my mind in a different direction.
GoldenGate Monitoring With User Separation
(mdinh) Typically, GoldenGate monitoring is performed by GoldenGate user.
Syntax Highlighting With SQL Developer
(Philipp Salvisberg) A customer asked me if it is possible to show unused identifiers in SQL Developer. Since there is no PL/SQL compile warning for that, you might be tempted to say no. But you can always use PL/SQL Cop for static code analysis.
The Oracle database museum: running old versions of the Oracle database
(Frits Hoogland) All Oracle database professionals know the current versions of the Oracle database (12.2, 18, 19, 20 at the moment of writing), and we also know the pace Oracle corporation keeps is so high that a lot of companies are having a hard time keeping up with the current versions.
Your 2 best options to fix Hibernate’s MultipleBagFetchException
(Thorben Janssen) You probably learned that you should use FetchType.LAZY for all of your associations. It ensures that Hibernate initializes an association when you use it and doesn’t spend any time getting data you don’t need.
DB2 for z/OS Locking for Application Developers Part 7
(Gareth Copplestone-Jones) This is the seventh article in the series on DB2 Locking for Application Developers. So far we’ve covered a lot of topics, including the ACID database transaction properties, lock size, lock mode and lock duration, transaction isolation levels and data anomalies, all with
Storing XML data in SQL Server
(Vladimir Klimov) When working on the release of dbForge Transaction Log, among other tasks, our team had to puzzle out how to properly store typed XML data.
Is it considered bad etiquette to ask when to leave work?
A busy professional asked me this question: Why is it considered bad etiquette to ask when to leave work? I wouldn’t call it “bad etiquette”. But there are different ways to get the information that you need. One way, that is more professional and business goal oriented, is to simply ask about the policies and expectations. Ask about the...