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The DATEFROMPARTS function returns a date value with the date portion set to the specified year, month and day, and the time portion set to the default. An example follows:
The Singleton design pattern is one of the most popular design patterns in use. The Singleton design pattern is one of the Gang of Four’s (GOF) design patterns and belongs
There has been a lot of talk recently about job losses and how the recovery from the recent recession has been jobless. Historically, technological revolutions have eliminated many jobs but
The following snippet will allow you quickly determine whether or not a specified phrase exists in a string: If (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(STRINGTOCHECK.ToString()) && STRINGTOCHECK.ToString().ToLower().Contains(“PHRASETOSEARCHFOR”)){//Found}Else{//Not Found}
The java.nio package contains the types required to perform input output operations in Java. The introduction of the java.nio package has simplified input — output operations. This article presents a discussion on
The following example replicates a # character five times in front of a Student Number in the Students table: SELECT [Student Name], REPLICATE(‘#’, 5) + [Student Number] AS ‘Student Number’FROM
When handling sensitive user data, it is important to test the security of your Web application before deploying it to the production environment. There are many tools that can help
In this tutorial, we will discuss the benefits of using Magento to operate multiple stores. I will also explain how to configure this feature. What is Magento Multi Store? Magento
Security has never been more important. Our world is managed by software and algorithms make wide ranging decisions based on data. The reputation of large enterprises can be severely impeded
ZDNet has put together a round-up of some of the biggest technology stories of the year, and quite a few of the stories they mention had big implications for enterprise
GraphQL is a data query language used by Facebook since 2012 that was recently open sourced. It was designed to expose hierarchical data and make it easier for front-end developers
Unforeseen outages make entrepreneurs painfully aware of the preeminence of disaster recovery (DR) planning. However, anticipating a data center outage is not just about an effective DR strategy, it is more about lessening the business impact. Executing a DR plan aligned with operational imperatives and business needs can trigger challenges with demanding recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) requirements, with a little crave for the investment, deployment, and continuous management of a DR environment. Therefore, for enterprises with limited resources to maintain DR needs, cloud-based disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offers another layer of protection to their data while minimizing CapEx and simplifying deployment. DRaaS includes the replication of infrastructure, applications, and data to the cloud. DRaaS not only protects your data and also ensures your business continuity by minimizing downtime and interruption to clients, customers, and employees in the event of a disaster or server failure. A dedicated DRaaS service provider manages both primary production and disaster recovery instances in the cloud and benefits enterprises in eliminating on-premises infrastructure. An ideal cloud-based DR Service offers the following key elements: Greatly reduced CapExImmediate business continuitySimpler disaster recovery deploymentFull-site, disk, file, and system recoveryA replica of all protected systemsWAN optimization between cloud and the customer siteData validation to ensure the data integrity Benefits of Cloud-based DR Service Cost-effective Solution The pay-as-you-go pricing model of the cloud significantly lowers costs by eliminating unpredictable failure of hardware, software or data center. The DR Service helps reduce the secondary or tertiary data center investments and on-going maintenance. Efficient to Start An effective DR strategy provides an easy way to implement a DR Service by not investing in any hardware or a secondary site and by not hiring and training the new staff. The service offers a secure, scalable, automated, and simple process to replicate and recover applications & data during a disruptive event. Improve Operational Efficiency DR offers flexible services that help you to scale up during seasonal peaks and to scale down while slower times. This versatility improves the operational efficiency of your business and helps in better management of your budget, resources, and personnel. Reliable Security To deploy and manage applications in cloud services, organizations concern about security. However, choosing a service provider, who is compliant with all the relevant regulations, will help you with the most reliable security. Hence, with cloud-based DR solution, organizations can benefit from flexible contract terms, lower price points, and the scalability to grow as your business needs change. DRaaS ensures your business continuity of daily operations with minimal disruptions. Therefore, to safeguard all aspects of your organization, a comprehensive DR strategy has to be implemented. For details please visit : http://vmokshagroup.com/blog/
Images of a new version of the Google Glass wearable have popped up on a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) website. The updated device is said to be the forthcoming Enterprise
IBM has announced that it has added a new Alert Notification Service to its Bluemix PaaS. The service aims to help DevOps teams respond quickly to problems with applications running
By default, in Hibernate the second level cache is disabled and there is no default implementation for it. Therefor you’ll need a third part implementation. In order to activate the
Python 3 has been around for years. I actually wrote a series of articles for DevX on Python 3 called “A Developer’s guide to Python 3.0“. The first article was
Large-scale cloud native applications are often architected using tens, hundreds and even thousands of individual microservices. Public services typically expose a REST API to the outside world, but many microservices
Microsoft has revealed a few more details about the Azure Stack, its forthcoming hybrid cloud computing offering. Enterprises will be able to install the Azure Stack in their own data
Over the recent years, there has been a large number of individuals as well as organizations who are ditching the Windows platform for Linux platform, and this number will continue to grow as more developments in Linux are experienced. Linux has for long been the leader in Web servers as most of the web servers run on Linux, and this could be one of the reasons why the high migration is being experienced.
The sp_MSforeachdb stored procedure helps you to do repetitive actions against all or some of the SQL Server instance databases. For example, this query: EXEC sp_MSforeachdb ‘USE [?]; EXEC sp_spaceused’
Sometimes in the myriad of forms, it can become quite difficult figuring out whether or not a form has already been loaded and if is still open or not. To
There are three important constructs in Java???concrete classes, abstract classes and interfaces. An abstract class is a special type of a class that is marked with the abstract keyword to
Modern front-end development can be quite confusing. I started dabbling in Web programming about 20 years ago. We already had HTML, CSS and JavaScript, but that’s about it. There were
When working with dynamic SQL queries, you will encounter situations in which you will work with temporary tables. Knowing whether a temporary table exists or not is vital and can
Whenever you show a Modal Dialog a DialogResult is expected. This DialogResult can be OK, Cancel, Yes, No and so forth. Now, imagine this scenario: You show a Modal Dialog
You can use the FOR XML PATH SQL Statement to join or concatenate multiple column values into single row. You could then use STUFF to remove the first ‘,’ (now
PowerShell is a powerful and flexible shell and scripting language from Microsoft. It used to be restricted to Windows only, but a new cross-platform wind is blowing from Redmond. Microsoft
Migration of an Oracle database to Microsoft SQL server involves converting Oracle queries into the destination format. The syntax of queries in Oracle and SQL is similar, yet not equal.
There is a very quick and easy to determine your CPU usage. You can use the following code. All you need to do is to add a Timer and set
Containers eat the DevOps world. Docker is leading the pack with the ubiquitous Docker engine runtime and a plethora of related tools. In this article, I provided some basic information
