As an IT Professional it can help to brand yourself when it comes to demonstrating your worth to your current employer or a potential client/employer. Often this is done through blogging or by adding content to different forums or newsletters. I recently received a request from an individual wishing to submit content to SSWUG.org for publishing. I think this is […]
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Gearing up the Business for Data Analytics–Part II
Gearing up the Business for Data Analytics—Part II In the previous article we touched upon a number of steps in Data Analytics. In this article and the subsequent articles let us dig a little deeper into each step. To recap on the article, the first step in data analytics is creating the “Statement of purpose” or rather a list of...
Memory management for In-Memory OLTP Server – Part 1
Memory management for In-Memory OLTP Server Part-1 Microsoft introduced a new functionality in SQL 2014 namely memory optimized objects. As the name implies, this technology is about having tables reside in memory. This means that the memory usage on your database will be much higher. In this series of articles we will see how we can manage the memory in...
Javascript, jQuery: Random Number Generator, Random Quote Generator, Random Image Loader
(The Operator) Javascript provides Math.floor and Math.random methods that can be used together to return random numbers.
Scheduled Tasks In ASP.NET With Quartz.Net
(Mike Brind) A perennial question on the ASP.NET forums concerns how to schedule regular tasks as part of a web application. Typically, the requirement is to send emails once every 24 hours at a particular time each day, but it could actually be anything from tweeting on a schedule to performing mai
Bluemix skills: What you need to know to architect for the cloud
(Rachel Reinitz) Many of the skills you already have will come in handy developing with IBM Bluemix. Find out what other skills you’ll need and challenges you’ll face when working in the world of composable applications.
Importing Your Data Dictionary to a new Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler Design
(Jeff Smith) I’ve shown how to drag and drop database tables from Oracle SQL Developer into a design. But I’ve never done a start-to-finish, blow-by-blow post on how to import your existing database objects into a data model with SQL Developer.
ORA-01511, ORA-01141, ORA-01110, ORA-17503, ORA-17515 and ORA-06512 when executing dbms_dnfs.clonedb_renamefile
(Ilmar Kerm) This post is for those who google the errors and maybe it will help to save some time. I’ve been playing around with clonedb for some time now and every time I hit these errors it takes me some time to figure out what actually the problem is 🙂 The error messages are not really helpful
Heuristic TEMP Table Transformation
(Randolf Geist) There are at least three different ways how the Oracle optimizer can come up with a so called TEMP table transformation, that is materializing an intermediate result set:

