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There’s an old saying that you shouldn’t argue with fools because observers might not be able to spot the difference between you and the fool. So, at the risk of sounding like a complete raving fool, I’m going to complain about a few things with Windows Server 2012 R2 that drive me absolutely batty and make me question the sanity of some of the folks at Microsoft....More

Big data got you down? Watch this new webcast with Oracle Ace Bert Scalzo to better understand why data modeling is a critical component of every successful data warehousing and business intelligence initiative. Learn now to organize current data stores into meaningful “sources” for ETL processing, collection, summarization and aggregation; use tools to create and maintain successful data warehousing and business intelligence solutions; transform existing OLTP models into star schema designs; answer critical business questions; and plan for the future....More

In modern applications, it's all too common to need to map data or properties from one object to another. Writing code to tackle this manually is not only tedious, but prone to simple yet costly mistakes. Happily, though, there are a number of open-source libraries that developers can easily leverage to help take the sting out of mapping....More

Are you leveraging all of Toad’s powerful features? In this on-demand webcast, Oracle ACE and Toad Product Architect Bert Scalzo discusses Toad’s hidden functionality, and how it can make your job easier. Watch it today....More