Peter Groenewegen) Only a few years back Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) was the way to do communication on the Microsoft platform based on SOAP protocol.
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JSON Paths and the MySQL JSON Functions
(Dave Stokes) I wrote MySQL and JSON: A Practical Programming Guide to help developers find their way around the MySQL JSON data type and the supporting functions.
SQL Server – Formatted Date and Alias Name in ORDER BY Clause
(Pinal Dave) CONVERT function can be used to change the format of DATE to various formats like MM/dd/yyy, dd/MM/yyy, yyy/MM/dd, etc.
Efficiently query DBA_EXTENTS for FILE_ID / BLOCK_ID
(Franck Pachot) Did you ever try to query DBA_EXTENTS on a very large database with LMT tablespaces? I had to, in the past, in order to find which segment a corrupt block belonged to.
Out of Support Database – A DB2 Support Nightmare!
(Mark Gillis) The set-up You have a mission critical database that uses DB2 V9.7 or 10.1 (or even earlier! We do have customers still running V8). It’s robust, reliable and gives little cause for concern.
Shortening Your Long URLs with the TinyURL API and .NET
(Hannes DuPreez) It is quite easy and not a lot of work to use the TinyURL API to shorten burdensome URLs. Examples are in both C# and VB.NET.
Use [Controller] And [NonController] Attributes In ASP.NET Core
(Bipin Joshi) ASP.NET Core MVC uses certain conventions when it comes to naming the controllers. Although these defaults work as expected in many cases, at times you may want to take charge of the controller naming.
Bringing .NET application performance analysis to Linux
(Rich Lander) Both the Windows and Linux ecosystems have a swath of battle-hardened performance analysis and investigation tools. But up until recently, developers and platform engineers could use none of these tools with .NET applications on Linux.
Can You Use Power Query In Power BI Or Excel To Write Data To A Data Source?
(Chris Webb) The short answer: no.
Container Testing for MySQL Server
(Robert Neumayer) Traditionally infrastructure management is a manual task, with sysadmins managing rather static servers.