Online retail giant Amazon just announced a new update which allows users to run Microsoft’s database and web programming platform ASP.NET, on its Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Amazon reveals that users can now use Microsoft tools they are accustomed to – to deploy, manage and scale SQL Server databases and ASP.NET applications. Amazon also
MySQL is one of, if not, the best database management systems. It’s even better because it’s open source which allows anybody to make changes to it as they see fit for their own needs. Major companies use it to power their Web sites and it’s always nice to see these companies make their work with
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will know that the copy of your website these days must be relevant, informative, sharable and well-written. But how do you know if you’re writing your website’s copy the right way? This 24-point checklist should help! Hat tip to copywriting expert, Heather Lloyd-Martin for the checklist.
April 10th, 2012 will be an interesting day. According to an SAP release, that is the day it will announce it’s plans to compete directly with Oracle, claiming they will “become a leading database vendor.” Reuters report seems to believe the move will involve SAP’s HANA software. The software is a in-memory based system and
In this Flash tutorial, I will show you how to create a simple chalk/drawing board using Flash’s programming language of ActionScript. It may sound hard; however, when I figured it out, it wasn’t that hard at all. Step 1: Creating The Flash Document: After you have created a new Flash document in your version of
Nearly every business has shifted away from terrifyingly large groupings of spreadsheets in favor of more organized and dynamic databases. Of course when nearly every business uses some iteration of the same conceptual data housing, attackers can take advantage of the standardized structure. In 2009 there were 141 reported data breaches. In 2010 that number
Writing a multi-threaded program is hard enough to do without having to worry about data concurrency in your database. Lucky for us, MySQL has the methods necessary to help us keep our data current built in. There are two main kinds of locks supported by MySQL, table-level locks and row-level locks. Table-level locks are supported
Continuing its efforts to keep its search results more quality-oriented, Google recently announced a significant algorithmic change.
I prescribe to the slow and steady approach in life. It’s a proven methodology in becoming succesful (just ask the Tortoise and/or the Hare). However, slow and steady is typically not acceptable in data computation, and SQL is no different. Thus, MySQL provides a Slow Query Log. Do you use the slow query log? Let
Ever wondered whether your targeted audience is really finding your website useful? Is the high bounce rates from any of your pages a matter of concern for you? Well, you’re in luck… Google is giving out some simple and handy tips on its latest Webmaster Central Blog that will help you understand and analyze the
