(Sunil P V) LRU (or Least Recently Used) is a cache eviction strategy, wherein if the cache size has reached the maximum allocated capacity, the least recently accessed objects in the cache will be evicted.
Other News
Ansible tips’n’tricks: defining –extra-vars as JSON
(Martin Bach) While I’m continuing to learn more about Ansible I noticed a nifty little thing I wanted to share: it is possible to specify –extra-vars for an Ansible playbook in a JSON document in addition to the space-separated list of key=value pairs I have used so often.
Size of Flashback Logs
(Marco Mischke) The todays blog post is about the Flashback Database feature inside the Oracle Database. I use this feature mostly in the context of Data Guard, but there are also other possible use cases like having a fallback during updates/upgrades etc.
OCI: When and How to Create an Integration to Call a Service from a Process?
(Jan Kettenis) With the Oracle Integration Cloud, when you have to call a service from a Process you can choose to call an external service directly or you can put an Integration in between. This article gives some directives why you may want to do the latter, and how to prevent a pitfall that is ea
Cardinality Without Runstats
(Joe Geller, Dave Simpson and Tony Andrews) As we all know, for each statement, Db2 determines the access path to use to find the data. It chooses the cheapest access path using the table statistics.
Filter Pinned Members in Watch Window – Debugging Tip
(Abhijit Jana) Filter Pinned Members in Watch Window helps in tracking member variables and faster debugging. Watch Windows is one of the most powerful and commonly used debugging tools inside Visual Studio.
My Personal Best Practices For Using LaunchDarkly Feature Flags
(Ben Nadel) It’s hard to believe that I’ve been using LaunchDarkly for over four years now. In October 2015, when Christopher Andersson suggested that we try something called “feature flags” here at InVision, I couldn’t even begin to understand how truly revolutionary they were going to be.
Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings Gets New Components
(David Ramel) Microsoft’s push to apply Blazor beyond the web-dev space to mobile development is continuing, with the team announcing new components for the experimental initiative just announced last month.
How to Create Your Own Repositories for Packages
(Evgeniy Patlan) For Linux, the most common way to distribute software is binary packages in the rpm or deb format. Most packages are included in the official distribution repositories or 3rd party software repositories.
Backup Database Task in SQL Server Maintenance Plans
(Sergey Gigoyan) Undoubtedly, having properly designed SQL Server database backup solutions is crucial for any company. Having discussed database Maintenance Plans in the previous two articles (here and here) from this series, in this article, we are going to explore how to implement database backu