Here are three SQLServer How-to Videos at Microsoft TechNet explain a few features of SQL Server usingvideos. These SQL Server video tutorials provide users with a firsthandexperience of how these features work, namely using PowerShell to auditservers, using the Database Engine Tuning Advisor and using thefilestream to store BLOB DataHowDo I: Use PowerShell to Audit […]
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Volume 1: Server Core Domain Controllers, Read-Only Domain Controllers, CHKDSK, IIS7
by Don Jones
Are you using - or preparing to use - Windows Server 2008? Make sure you’re not just upgrading the OS, but also upgrading what you do with it by taking advantage of new features, new techniques, and subtle new capabilities. IT guru Don Jones guides you through WIndows Server 2008’s most important new capabilities in a short, tip-focused format that helps you immediately take advantage of the greatest new features. Walk through installing a Server Core domain controller, secure Windows PowerShell, use a Read-Only Domain Controller, and much, much more!
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Here are 3 learning documents covering Google Web Toolkit(GWT) at scribd.com: two ebooks and one tutorial. These willhelp you learn and improve your skills with writing GWT and Ajax codeto build dynamic, interactive, and rich web applications. These ebooksand tutorial are in pdf format, to download them you need to registerfor free and then select […]
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These 45 Cand C++ Video Tutorials at showmedo provide a newdimension to teaching by using videos to explain various workflows inapplication development using C and C++. These C and C++ videotutorials explain programming skills, building applications fromscratch and the history of C and C++, including their evolution. Alsodiscussed are C and C++’s various features and […]
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Chapter 1: What is Application Performance Management?
by Greg Shields
The Definitive Guide to Application Performance Management offers a comprehensive look at Application Performance Management (APM), an industry-leading mechanism for monitoring business services and applications. APM looks at every facet of the IT infrastructure, from the services to the users themselves, to gain a holistic understanding of what’s going on in your business applications. Using APM, you can quickly dive into the root causes of problems within your infrastructure. You will understand the level of impact associated with those problems, and will recognize and quantify the overall health of your IT infrastructure and business services.The goal of this first chapter, and indeed this guide as well, is to help you understand the critical need for managing your applications’ performance and behaviors. Chapter One will document the problem with today’s traditional monitoring solutions and explain why APM is an effective solution. It will discuss an introduction to APM and where it fits into the environment.
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Hartmut Wiehr of Fujitsu Siemens Computers gives us an introduction to storage technologies and storage networks.
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Complete Series: New Techniques for Creating Better Backups
by Eric Beehler
The world of backups is an essential piece of an IT infrastructure. With new technologies coming online and new issues around data security, the question becomes whether your backups are keeping up. Virtualization presents new challenges to the old agent based network backup, data breaches force you to take a second look at security, and the sheer volume of data puts backup solutions at their breaking points. The Essentials Series: New Techniques for Creating Better Backups takes a fresh look at backup technologies that address these challenges of virtualized servers, options and management of backup encryption, and the benefits of data deduplication for efficient use of backup resources.Articles in this series include:Article 1: How Virtualization Changes the Standard Approach to BackupsArticle 2: Avoid Making Headlines by Securing Your BackupsArticle 3: Reducing Backups with Data Deduplication
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These JavaVideo Tutorials at showmedo help you learn Javaprogramming. The Java tutorials below cover topics such as reverseengineering, using Java web start, Jython, installing Java Psion linkand writing an applet with Java.ReverseEngineering UsingBOUML This video tutorial gives you a brief introduction into creating classdiagrams using BOUML. This is intended for those heading into thesoftware engineering […]
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These JavascriptVideo Tutorials at showmedo help you to increaseyour skills in JavaScript. These Javascript video tutorials teach youthe basics of JavaScript programming, and how to use JavaScript withTurboGears and Java2Script.Thebasics of Javascript. This video tutorial explains the basics of JavaScript which include thebasic tag formation, attributes etc.TurboGearsUltimate DVD (TG v1.0) (12 videos)The following video tutorials shows […]
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These 7 EclipseVideo Tutorials at showmedo explain anddemonstratge this development platform by using videotutorials. Eclipse is a multi-language software development platformcomprising an IDE and plug-ins for a variety of languages such as C,C++, Java, Perl, Python and more. Support for each of these languagesis added via the use of language specific plug-ins. These Eclipse videotutorials cover […]
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