(Jered Floyd) Data efficiency – the combination of technologies including data deduplication, compression, zero elimination and thin provisioning – transformed the backup storage appliance market in well under a decade. Why has it taken so long for the same changes to occur in the primary storage ap
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Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Moving to a Web Application
(David Paquette) Our first big changes to the BugTracker.NET code base will be to convert the existing Web Site project to a Web Application Project. Web application projects have a number of advantages, including better management of references and a support for a more structured separation of code
Expiring External User Sharing in SharePoint Online
(Richard diZerega) SharePoint Online makes it extremely easy to share sites and content with external users. For this reason, SharePoint Online has seen rapid adoption for many extranet scenarios and in OneDrive for Business.
Oracle TKPROF Hidden/Undocumented Parameters
(Gokhan Atil) While I was examining with tkprof, I noticed that there are 2 undocumented parameters (Oracle 11gR2): verbose and diag. Let’s take a look at them.
ODI 12c – Migration from OWB to ODI – PLSQL Procedures Pt 2
(David Allan) In the first part of this blog post I showed you how PLSQL procedures could be invoked from ODI and help you benefit from supporting such functionality in the tool and increasing performance. Here in part 2, I’ll show how the map can be changed in OWB and subsequently migrated using th
MySQL 5.7 – HTTP Plugin for MySQL
(Ulf Wendel) It is official: MySQL listens to HTTP and speaks JSON. MySQL got a new plugin that lets HTTP clients and JavaScript users connect to MySQL using HTTP. The development preview brings three APIs: key-document for nested JSON documents, CRUD for JSON mapped SQL tables and plain SQL with JS
Convert Single Point stored in SDO_ORDINATES to SDO_POINT_TYPE
(Simon Greener) Convert Sdo_Ordinate based single points to their Sdo_Point equivalent.
IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS explained
(James Serra) You might be reading a lot about Cloud computing and see three acronyms frequently: IaaS, PaaS, Saas. Cloud providers offer their services according to these three fundamental models:
DBA Reminders from an FAA Fire
(Mike Walsh) Last Friday a long time employee set fire to the FAA’s Chicago Control Center. You can read about the fire and the 2,000+ flight cancellations that resulted here and here.
Troubleshooting : Error – Incorrect syntax near ‘GO’
(blakhani) Sometimes we are very comfortable and used to with certain things that if they change, we become nervous and uneasy. I have a lovely daughter and she always greets me when I come back home from office. That one “hello” takes away all my worries and I feel alive.