(Martin) 100% of our studio audience learned something! Joel provided an in-depth look at buffer pool tuning with many real world examples.
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How to stay busy and maintain your skill set
(Willie Favero) I have found that over the years, some of the best ways for me to keep up with what’s going on in the wonderful world of DB2 for z/OS is teaching DB2 for z/OS (something I stopped doing many years ago when I returned to IBM), presenting at conferences and user group meetings (somethi
Using LogParser to analyze the EVENTLOG.XML, Azure Websites
(benjamin perkins) If you have an active Azure Web Site and you experience problems or want to do some checks on what might the problem, there is a file called EVENTLOG.XML which contain exceptions and information that may be helpful. The file is located in the /LogFiles directory on your Azure Web
Functional Reactive Programming and JavaScript
Functional reactive programming (FRP) is an emerging programming paradigm that has recently gained popularity in the web world. That popularity isn’t just tied to fact that the video streaming giant Netflix blogged about how it applies FRP to optimize its API, but because it actually provides an ele
MySQL high availability management with ClusterControl
(Gregory Steulet) Installing and managing a highly available MySQL infrastructure can be really tedious. Solutions to facilitate database and system administrator’s task exist, but few of these cover the complete database lifecycle and address all the database infrastructure management requirements.
Remote DML with DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE
(Dominic Brooks) An example of sucking data into a table over a db link using DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE.
Sharing SQLDeveloper SQL history across several machines with Dropbox
(Flavio Casetta) A quick tip for keeping a single shared SQL history repository among different installations of SQLDeveloper, for the same user, on distinct computers synchronized with Dropbox.
Making the CDB Common User Without Using C## Prefix….
(Aman Sharma) If you have done any play with the latest release of Oracle database 12c, you must have come across the concept of Common and Local users. I won’t rewrite what’s already there in the docs but for setting the context of the post, a Common user must be created with a prefix added to the
What are The Different Types of Database Backups?
(David Dye) If you are just beginning SQL Server database administration then you might not be familiar with the different types of database backups that are available and exactly what they backup.
Developing behavior extensions for InfoSphere MDM
(Dmitry Drinfeld and Stephanie J. Hazlewood) One of the most fundamental extension mechanisms of InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) allows for the modification of service behavior. These extensions are commonly referred to as behavior extensions, and the incredible flexibility they provide allo