(Andrea Del Bene) If you are a Java developer, and unless you’ve been living under a rock, you should have been affected in some way by the new course Java began in version 9.
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WPF Hanging in Infinite Rendering Loop
(Rick Strahl) I ran into a nasty WPF issue recently with Markdown Monster. Markdown Monster has been for the longest time targeted at .NET 4.6.2, but a while back I started integrating with some libraries that have moved over completely to use .NET Standard.
How does a C# LINQ Query execute and How does this affect Performance?
(Damir Arh) The way LINQ queries are executed depends on the kind of data source being queried. This tutorial talks about how a LINQ query is executed and how this affects performance.
Floating-Point Parsing and Formatting improvements in .NET Core 3.0
(Tanner) Starting back with the .NET Core 2.1 release, we were making iterative improvements to the floating-point parsing and formatting code in .NET Core.
SQL SERVER – Find Out Current Language of the Session
(Pinal Dave) After reading my post SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Playing with DateTime with Customer Data, one of my blog readers asked me “How to find out the current language setting of the session?”
Will IO Size Affect your RDS Performance?
(Vinoth Kanna) During our recent consulting with one of our client, We came across an interesting issue on RDS. The baseline is that “Low IO size on your RDS instance can affect your DB performance”. Yes, It’s IO size, Not IOPS.
Tomcat with ORDS running APEX behind a reverse proxy
(Peter Raganitsch) A while ago I posted a guide how to set up nginx as a reverse proxy in front of tomcat to run ORDS and APEX. See the post here.
Some Notes on my small steps with Oracle APEX
(Lucas Jellema) In this article, I will share some of my personal findings and discoveries as I start out building a small APEX application. No experienced developer is likely to learn anything from this article – but first timers like me could perhaps benefit from my findings.
Correct Password Gives ORA-01017
(Andrew Reid) This post replicates a real-life situation where Oracle returned an ORA-01017 when the correct password was used. First I created a user in an Oracle 11 database and checked that I could connect to it:
Why do I (they) own that database?
(Kenneth Fisher) Ever looked at the list of databases and wonder why you own one of them? Or why some other user owns the database? Just to be clear, by owner I mean the one and only actual owner of the database, not just a member of the db_owner role.