Ever seen this exception in your log files when working with MySQL as your database back-end?
User does not have access to metadata required to determine...
0 replies - 214 views - 03/22/08 by Schalk Neethling in Tips and Tricks
A Google News search for Microsoft SSDS, the SQL Server Data Services it announced last week, yields just six articles – SIX! A random nonsense search term...
1 replies - 1069 views - 03/19/08 by Tim Negris in News
While looking for a solution of a different problem, I realized that SQL Server has a feature called extended stored procedures. Extended stored procedures, at...
0 replies - 754 views - 03/17/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News
"sakila" is the
sample database shipped with MySQL (pronounced as
my ess-kew-ell). In the context of Sun
Microsystems
announcing the agreement to...
0 replies - 555 views - 02/13/08 by Arun Gupta in News
Greenplum, the other (Postgres/Bizgres-based) open
source database near and dear to Sun besides MySQL, this one capable of
messaging a petabyte of data and...
0 replies - 467 views - 02/13/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Integrating your application with Active Directory (or another LDAP based directory) is a common requirement in many business applications. Almost every...
1 replies - 2726 views - 02/11/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News
In business applications, there often is a need to know the number of business days and/or hours in a month/year. There is a dozen ways to do this depending on...
0 replies - 1038 views - 02/07/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News
Most people that use SQL Server are familiar with formatting dates inside SQL Server. The common approach is: convert(varchar, getdate(), 106) -- Displays a...
1 replies - 3526 views - 02/04/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News
So one day, Scott McNealy, founder and chairman of Sun, read in his morning newspaper how the use of Java was rapidly diminishing, courtesy of something called...
0 replies - 9433 views - 02/03/08 by Ivo Jansch in News
Interesting story today asking whether LINQ has given .NET an edge over Java. LINQ is best-known as a way to embed SQL-like statements directly in code. ...
16 replies - 4411 views - 01/30/08 by Alex Miller in News
LiquiBase Core 1.5.0 is now available for download from http://www.liquibase.org/download. LiquiBase is an open source database version control and...
0 replies - 1416 views - 01/29/08 by Nathan Voxland in News
Something has happened – or maybe didn’t happened – that has
caused Microsoft to delay the release of SQL Server 2008 to the calendar three
quarter. It...
0 replies - 593 views - 01/28/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
A blog posting from MySQL founder and original developer, Michael "Monty" Widenius, announces the release of a major new database engine called...
6 replies - 4883 views - 01/28/08 by Rick Ross in News
The book's preface says it all: "We've tried to make this an ideal
first Oracle book for a wide spectrum of Oracle users - but not the
last!" They identify an important audience for the...
0 replies - 469 views - 01/23/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews
The ink was still drying on Sun’s billion-dollar deal to buy
the webby, low-end open source database house MySQL when Sun turned around and
put money...
0 replies - 2043 views - 01/22/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
