(John Hallas) We had a 8 node RAC cluster that was showing evidence of connections timing out. The following AWR report segments indicates a high level of login activity and blocking on the AUD$ table and segments.
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Oracle E-Business Suite Logging and Auditing: Page Access Tracking
(Michael Miller) Sign-On Audit only logs professional forms activity – it does not log Oracle Applications Framework (OAF) user activity. Page Access Tracking is required to log OAF activity. Once enabled, the level of logging needs to be set as well as flagging those applications to be logged and
Single File Upload to Multiple File Upload ASP.NET Web Forms
(Abhimanyu Kumar Vatsa) With ASP.NET File upload control we can only upload one file at a time while HTML5 has a good notion to upload multiple files at a time. Look at the animated image given below, which was the actual framework before HTML5 equivalent updates with ASP.NET 4.5 Framework.
A Text-Based Box Generator
(Richard Carr) When working with console applications, or when adding to a log file, it is often useful to highlight elements of the text. One way in which to achieve this is to draw a box around the text, using standard symbols from the available character set.
Migrating Classic ASP To ASP.NET Razor Web Pages Part Three- Include Files And Reusable Code
(Mike Brind) This is the third in a series of articles that explore how to migrate classic ASP web sites to the ASP.NET Web Pages framework. I covered Razor syntax and data access in the previous articles. This article shows how to deal with reusable code that typically inhabits include files in cla
Applying The Scientific Method to SQL Server Performance Tuning
(Joshua Feierman) Database administrators tend to rely more on science than intuition, and may therefore seem exasperatingly cautious to other IT people. A relational database is a complex machine, however, that is asked to deal with intricate problems. When things go wrong, it usually takes knowle
Create a simple ASP.NET Web Service in Visual Basic
(Ged Mead) There are so many different ways you can set up services nowadays that it makes your head spin. Personally, I’ve always found most client/server tasks a bit challenging and my success rate in the past hasn’t been better than 50/50. So I thought if others were in the same boat, maybe it
Adding SQL Server Express 2012 Advanced Services to Existing Development Environment
(Ming Man Chan) This article consists of three subsections:
Why Linus Torvalds is wrong about XML
(Sam Spencer) Linus Torvalds is one of the most revered figures in modern computer science and has made the kind of contributions to the world that I hope to achieve. However, given his global audience, his recent statements about XML give me pause for reflection.
Contained Databases in SQL Server 2012
Contained Databases is a new feature which is available in SQL Server 2012. A contained database is a database that will store all its metadata within the database thereby not storing any configuration information within the master database of the SQL Server Instance where the Contained Database is