(Uwe Hesse) I got this question during my present course Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g: Manage Clusterware and ASM while we discussed backup of the OCR. That backup is done by the OCR Master, which can be any node in the cluster.
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Table Partitioning & Long Names
(Keith) While working on a way to reapply indexes to existing partitions in my partition management extension, it dawned on me that PostgreSQL’s default object name length limit of 63 characters could cause some interesting issues for child table names when setting up partitioning.
Answering a Question: Dealing with Different Data Types
(Craig S. Mullins) I get a lot of e-mail. Some of it is junk, but some of it contains questions on all sorts of issues. I cannot answer everything that comes into my in box or I wouldn’t have time to earn a living. But every now and then I will answer a question here on the blog.
Hadoop for .NET Developers: Unit-Testing with the .NET SDK
(Bryan C Smith) Data are problematic and code doesn’t always work like we had anticipated. Before running a potential large MapReduce job on our cluster, we may want to perform a test on a subset of data. But even before that it would be best to unit test our code, stepping through it in Visual Stud
Document Object Model (DOM)
(Ankur Mishra) The Document Object Model (DOM) is a cross-platform and language-independent interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content , structure and style of HTML or XML documents.
SQL SERVER – Detecting Potential Bottlenecks with the help of Profiler
(Pinal Dave) Probably, everyone who writes SQL code has used INSERT statement, which alongside SELECT, UPDATE and DELETE, is a part of a basic operations’ set for data manipulation.
ADF Query Saved Search in ADF 12c
(Andrejus Baranovskis) ADF Query Saved Search functionality exists starting from ADF 11g – Persisting Query Criteria Results Across Sessions with Oracle MDS. Same works in ADF 12c, and more – from UI point behaviour improved. There are nicer and cleaner dialogs prompting user to save search after ch
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How to hide SQL Server user databases in SQL Server Management Studio
(Manvendra Singh) I have a SQL Server instance that has hundreds of databases. Navigating the database tree in SSMS is a pain and I was wondering if there was a way to limit the list of databases that I see in SSMS?
How To Tell Employees Bad News
The work environment, as in life, will have difficult and atypical situations. It is hard to know how to properly handle these unique situations because they are so infrequent. It might be staffing changes, a lost contract or even the death of someone close to the business. Even if the bad news is