(John Hallas) It is easy to get the current SCN from the database and to map between SCN and timestamp because from 10g onwards there are 2 functions to convert between SCN and TIMESTAMP.
Other News
Getting started with Oracle Service Bus 12c: importing 11g sources
(Laurens van der Starre) Oracle has finally announced 12c, so now everybody can get their hands on it. One of the new features is that Oracle Service Bus development is integrated into Oracle jDeveloper Studio.
DBMS_SPM.LOAD_PLAN_FROM_CURSOR_CACHE typo
(Marko Sutic) I’ve played a little with Oracle SQL Plan Management and something caught my eye.
Back to Buffer Pool Basics: Part 3 – Monitoring
(Willie Favero) Magic, science, perseverance, knowledge, patience, luck, skill, and awareness. All important attributes needed (required), in my opinion, for the individual responsible for buffer pool setup and tuning. Relying on just one may not get the job done, or at least not as well as you w
Troubleshooting Solr setup on WAS 8.x
(Vamshidhar Srikantapuram) We recently came across an interesting issue with one of our clients. Our client was trying to setup Solr 4.7.2 on WAS 8.x and was unsuccessful in starting up the Solr application. When they contacted us with the issue, the first thing we looked at was the AppServer logs.
Using UDFs for geo-distance search in MySQL
(Alexander Rubin) In my previous post about geo-spatial search in MySQL I described (along with other things) how to use geo-distance functions. In this post I will describe the geo-spatial distance functions in more details.
How to control the output of Html.EditorFor in ASP.NET MVC?
(Sheo Narayan) In this article, we are going to learn how to control the output of Html.EditorFor helper method in ASP.NET MVC.
WPF Menu Controls – ContextMenu
(Richard Carr) The seventy-eighth part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial continues to look at the WPF menu controls. This article describes the ContextMenu control, which provides pop-up menus linked to other WPF controls.
Overview of OWIN and Katana
(Bipin Joshi) As OWIN is becoming popular and more common, it is important for ASP.NET developers to understand what OWIN and Katana are. ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Identity are already geared towards using these specifications.
How to Concatenate Collections into Strings
(Peter Vogel) I was writing a For…Each loop yesterday to create a comma-delimited string from the properties of objects in a collection (and, thanks to LINQ, I don’t write many For…Each loops any more). As I was typing in my code I noticed that the String class’s Join method now accepts a collection