Some tips for using jobs in SQL Server 2014 Try to separate very large job into several small jobs. This can improve performance, and can be useful to maintenance the jobs and locate any problems. Specify the understandable job name. Try to specify the job’s name so, that the name describes what the job makes. By using so, you can...
Other News
HTML 5 Elements in a Look: Part 2
(Sibeesh Venu) In this article you will lean about HTML 5 Elements in a look.
Primary on FileSystem and Standby on ASM
(Anand) For one of the client, standby server went down. We had another standby server which was kept down for more than a month. Decision was taken to start the server and apply incremental SCN based backup on the standby database.
Oracle MFT Part 1 – Transform Batch Files
(James Taylor) I have been working with a customer looking at implementing an enterprise file transfer solution. Very timely as Oracle released Managed File Transfer (MFT) as part of the SOA 12c launch which is a great fit for this use case.
Avoid temporary disk tables with MySQL
(Shinguz) For processing SELECT queries MySQL needs some times the help of temporary tables. These temporary tables can be created either in memory or on disk.
Except and Intersect
(Kenneth Fisher) EXCEPT and INTERSECT are two uncommon commands. Not that they do anything odd but they aren’t exactly well known in any detail or used very often. I’ve been using them myself a bit recently and thought I would explore.
Oracle: MERGE ‘Monkey-business’
(David Fitzjarrell) Oracle can do some, well, strange things when fixing issues caused by the optimizer. For 10g releases up to 10.2.0.x Oracle chose to silently ignore a message and eliminate an outer join on the MERGE statement under certain conditions. Let’s examine this and see exactly what Orac
Showing Header For Text Table With Single Measure in Tableau
(Donabel Santos) I had a question from one of my students tonight about how to show the header for text table with a single measure. It’s not super straightforward to do this in Tableau. You can’t simply to go the measure pill and show the header (because it doesn’t have it).
The Target of Your Defection
(Rodney Landrum) I was a bit nervous this morning. I had been tasked with adding two SQL instances back into a master/target (MSX/TSX) relationship so that they would receive updated job code that had a new DFS share backup maintenance plans. Why was I nervous? Well, nervous might not be the right w
DB2 License Management, new Offerings, and an hour of fun
(Henrik Loeser) DB2 is really flexible in how it gets deployed. This includes platforms, resource usage, shared disk or database partitioning models, product names, and product features.