Views can be an effective tool for speeding up your selects and simplifying complex queries. Learn what indexed views are, where you might want to use them, how to create them, and what constraints exist with their use.
<b>Standards Blog:</b> "iBall.com CEO Chad Derwent sat alone in his office in Silicon Valley. Outside his open door, rows of empty, silent cubicles stretched from one end of the office floor to the other."
The world of Linux applications continues to expand and improve, so check out Eric Geier's roundup of ten great Linux applications you might not have discovered yet: media players, Web page designer, video creation, run Linux on Windows, Windows apps on Linux, and more.
<b>IT News Today:</b> "If you've been paying attention to the IT industry for the last year or so you probably already know where I'm going with this: Making a claim that $50 billion was lost last year due to piracy is a very bold claim, and cannot be proven"
While you’re focused on the year-end sales numbers, don’t let your guard down when it comes to security, because a bad computer or network virus is a not-so-nice gift that keeps on giving long past the holidays. These 10 tips will help you keep your festive cheer.
Recently I faced one very interesting task. I had to port an application from one platform (Windows) to another (Linux). It is an interesting topic. First, knowledge of several platforms and writing the code for them is a good experience for every developer. Secondly, writing an application for different platforms makes it widespread and needed by many. So, I would like to share my impressions concerning this process. This article is intended for everybody who wants to write a cross-platform application.
<b>Netstat -vat:</b> "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team this week put out the FreeBSD 7.3 release which is about four months after FreeBSD 8 was released."
Virtually Speaking: VMware is taking its virtualization message to the streets with its partners, while Red Hat is taking a quieter and more traditional approach.
MySQL database administrators are always looking for a solid backup and recovery tool that will suit all their needs. Xtrabackup, created by Percona, is the open source alternative to the commercial Innodb Hot Backup tool. This article explains a good methodology for testing and verifying Xtrabackups capabilities and precision.
MySQL database administrators are always looking for a solid backup and recovery tool that will suit all their needs. Xtrabackup, created by Percona, is the open source alternative to the commercial Innodb Hot Backup tool. This article explains a good methodology for testing and verifying Xtrabackups capabilities and precision.
If your business computers are running on versions of Windows XP or Vista without the latest service packs, it’s time to update, upgrade or go it alone as Microsoft withdraws software support.
<b>Open Enterprise:</b> "Europe should be learning from China's example, not sending patronising nastygrams that just makes it look petulant and anachronistic."
<b>Sourceforge:</b> "Swedish student Thomas Eriksson says a lot of advanced computer usage is still best done from the terminal. Given that, he’s developed Bashish to provide a more useful and beautiful terminal environment."