Introducing Infinispan: Part I

Part I provides an overview of the capabilities of Infinispan, including usage examples and a tour of the API's.

Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.

Database Scalability

Database is typically the last piece of the puzzle of the scalability problem. There are some common techniques to scale the DB tier.IndexingMake sure...

0 replies - 2207 views - 07/15/08 by riho in News

SchemaSpy - Excellent Database Graphs for Free!

A lot of Java projects have quite complex database schemas in the backend. Although, using object-relational mapping it can be useful to have a deeper...

0 replies - 4845 views - 07/10/08 by Rainer Eschen in News

Efficient Paging in SQL Server 2005

It is a little bit off topic for my blog, but I came across a situation today while at work where I needed to page the results of a stored proc, but at the...

1 replies - 2889 views - 07/10/08 by justin_etheredge in News

PHPLinq As Cool As Real LINQ?

I read about the PHP Implementation of LINQ called PHPLinq. Frankly, I was sceptical about it. Finally, I gave it a try. I still remain sceptical... Let me...

1 replies - 3011 views - 07/10/08 by mikeborozdin in News

Kill Your Users Table

It's time to rethink how we store user information. You don't need as much as you think you do. Consider...Reddit's database was stolen a little over a year...

2 replies - 1553 views - 07/07/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

.NET LINQ to MSI - Part 1 - Interop

Without any physical data access layer, there's no way to build abstractions on top of it. So, in this part of this series we'll take a look at some very...

0 replies - 1802 views - 06/24/08 by bdesmet in News

Setting Up A WAMP,phpMyAdmin, Wordpress development environment

In this article I will cover getting PHP set-up on Windows, with Apache and MySQL (WAMP). At the end I will also cover how to get phpMyAdmin and Wordpress...

0 replies - 8740 views - 06/18/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

How-To Remote MySQL Database Administration With MySQL GUI tools

In this short article I will demonstrate how you can set-up a user for remote access to your MySQL server. This will allow you to use the array of awesome GUI...

0 replies - 6263 views - 06/18/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

ASP.NET - Preventing SQL Injection Attacks

Consider a simple web application that requires user input in some fields, lets say some search box. Suppose a user types the following string in...

0 replies - 14172 views - 06/18/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Quick Tip: Granting access to meta-data on MySQL

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...

2 replies - 3034 views - 03/22/08 by Schalk Neethling in Tips and Tricks

Microsoft SSDS - Dumb Name, Brilliant Idea

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...

2 replies - 2733 views - 03/19/08 by Tim Negris in News

Querying the File System - From ColdFusion to SQL Server

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 - 3864 views - 03/17/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News

RESTful representation of "sakila" using GlassFish and NetBeans IDE

"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 - 2300 views - 02/13/08 by Arun Gupta in News

Greenplum Revs Internet-Scale Database

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 - 1123 views - 02/13/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Querying Active Directory Through SQL Server

Integrating your application with Active Directory (or another LDAP based directory) is a common requirement in many business applications. Almost every...

3 replies - 13294 views - 02/11/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News