(Hemant K Chitale) RMAN provides a convenient way to name Image Copies (backups) of datafiles to retain the same file name without the path.
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Oracle: The Near-by Standby
(Mary Mikell Spence) Oracle standby database (aka DataGuard) has been around for years and has truly matured as a disaster recovery solution. For many of us, setting up a standby has become fairly old hat. Just remember, keep everything on the standby server exactly the same as the primary, and ev
Flashbook: DB2 10.5 with BLU Acceleration – New Dynamic In-Memory Analytics for the Era of Big Data
(Susan Visser) Download and read the whole book, for FREE:
BLU Acceleration for Cloud Is Now Available to Everyone
(Antonio Cangiano) Today we are announcing the next step in the evolution of BLU Acceleration for Cloud. After a successful and very popular Early Access Preview program, BLU Acceleration for Cloud is as of today, officially open to everyone (in beta).
Allocation in Power Query
(Chris Webb) Now that the brave new world of self-service BI is upon us, old-school corporate BI types like me need to sharpen our Excel skills – and anyone learning Excel will, sooner or later, end up on Bill Jelen (aka Mr Excel)’s site. I found his latest podcast on splitting the value of a contra
Compute a DOM element’s effective background colour
While working on a new JS library today, I wanted to create a menu overlay element that automatically has the same background colour as its trigger element.
Basic DOM Node Properties
(Abhijeet Singh) A DOM node is an object with properties containing information about a node itself and its contents.
Assigning Roles to MySQL Users
(Rob Gravelle) Ever since Oracle became the owner of MySQL when it acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010, improvements to the software haven’t been as forthcoming as one might hope. In fact, some critics have gone so far as to contend that Oracle is willfully “trying to make it as difficult as possible
How to recover a table in a pluggable database from a backup
(Marco V.) I’m going to test some useful recovery scenarios for the Oracle Database 12c release.
Deploy InfoSphere MDM Collaborative Edition onto a cluster, Part 1: Strategies for mixed clustered topologies on an application server
(Sachin Prasad, Abhijith Boompelly and Srinath Shenoy) This two-part tutorial shows how to set up a typical IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) Collaborative Edition V11 clustered environment. This first part describes how to deploy InfoSphere MDM Collaborative Edition V11 onto a cluster.