(Henrik Loeser) In an earlier blog post I had written about why Workload Management is needed. It’s not just something for the database system or on the operating system level, it is really useful and done in “real life”. But what is managed in the system, how are you able to identify activies in a
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Making better business decisions with analytics and business rules
(Sindhu S. Chandran) This article provides an overview of how predictive analytics and business rules can be used together for better business outcomes. A banking example illustrates how IBM decision management products might be used for smarter business processes.
Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript: Part 1
(Devesh Omar) JavaScript is a prototype-based programming style of object-oriented programming in which classes are not present.
Hiding a Java Source
(Michael McLaughlin) The ability to deploy Java inside the Oracle database led somebody to conclude that the source isn’t visible in the data catalog. Then, that person found that they were wrong because the Java source is visible when you use a DDL command to CREATE, REPLACE, and COMPILE the Java s
That’s … Huge!
(David Fitzjarrell) Recently I’ve noticed the occasional thread in Oracle newsgroups and lists asking about hugepages support in Linux, including ‘best practices’ for hugepages configuration. This information is out on that ‘world-wide web’ in various places; I’d rather put a lot of that information
Copy & Paste Imports from Excel to Oracle using SQL Developer
(Jeff Smith) Oh, I so DO love hearing about things that ‘we cannot do.’ This morning I read that in an article that Oracle doesn’t allow you to copy data from Excel and paste directly to a table.
High Availability with mysqlnd_ms on Percona XtraDB Cluster
(Jervin Real) This is the second part of my series on High Availability with mysqlnd_ms. In my first post, “Simple MySQL Master HA with mysqlnd_ms,” I showed a simple HA solution using asynchronous MySQL replication.
Clustered Column Store Index: Concurrency with INSERT Operations
(Sunil Agarwal) As described in the blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2014/07/27/clustered-column-store-index-concurrency-and-isolation-level.aspx , the clustered column store index has been optimized for typical DW scenario supporting nightly or trickle data load with fas
The .NET 4.5 async/await Commands in Promise and Practice
(Jon Smith) The .NET 4.5 async/await feature provides an opportunity for improving the scalability and performance of applications, particularly where tasks are more effectively done in parallel. The question is: do the scalability gains come at a cost of slowing individual methods?
C# is great, but can be very annoying
(Steve Endow) I just had a call to review an error that was occurring with an integration that I had developed.