SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Amazon RDS & AWS, Oracle and IBM Help Friday, January 17, 2020
There is a lot of talk about technical debt – that thing where systems have been allowed to run because, well, they work. Why poke a sleeping troll, or whatever that saying is. Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke. But this leads to technical decay that can be hard to quantify and hard to pull into any kind of […]
(Steve Smith) I recently needed to find which of a bunch of markdown files had a particular string in them. My initial thought, since I’m on Windows, was to use Windows File Explorer’s search dialog. No dice – it found no results when I knew there were some.
(Dave Stokes) Many years ago I was working at a university and had to create accounts for students every semester. Each account needed a random password and there were several hacks used to do that.
(Martin) 100% of our studio audience learned something!George gave a great tutorial to get users familiar with using Jupyter notebooks for learning and managing Db2.
(David Ramel) Now that Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 has shipped, the dev team is turning to new priorities in the v16.5 preview round, including the IDE’s “Find in Files” feature, which is getting a modernization revamp.
(Grant Fritchey) I saw this question on SQL Server Central the other day and had an immediate, visceral reaction. I know why.
(Hannes DuPreez) One gets so lost in all that is complicated that you tend to forget the basics. Recently, I had to make use of checkboxes in a project, and I forgot something simple. I suppose it depends on how much you work with certain controls, or in my case, age might be a factor…
(Rafael Chinelato Del Nero) Many programming languages allow passing parameters by reference or by value. In Java, we can only pass parameters by value. This imposes some limits and also raises questions.
(Bobby Curtis) Here is a little something for you. I’m working on building a demo of Oracle GoldenGate Microservices between three (3) containers. In order to do this, I wanted to setup a dedicated network between the containers.
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