(Craig S. Mullins) We’re all busy. Frequently it can seem like you just got in to the office and already it is past quitting time! There is so much to do and so little time to do it all. And we all work more than 40 hours a week… these are some of the common complaints of the busy DBA.
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Generate XML From Object in C#
(Jignesh Trivedi) In this article we will generate XML from the object in C#.
Improving ADF UI Shell – Tab Closing Icon Adjustment
(Andrejus Baranovskis) Default tab closing icon in ADF UI Shell is located in the top right corner. Users are not really happy about this and there is a demand to have the same positioning as you can see in the Web browsers – directly on the tab.
Enterprise Manager 12c: Be Careful About Naming DB Systems
(Gokhan Atil) Yesterday, we added a development database to our EM12c system. About 15 minutes later, the incident management flooded us with alert mails about newly added database. Unfortunately its SID was same with our production DB, and when adding the database, my colleague didn’t change its na
‘The Chain Gang’, a Riveting Tale of Chained and Migrated Rows in Oracle
(David Fitzjarrell) Chained and migrated rows in an Oracle database can seriously impact I/O performance, especially with Exadata. In a ‘normal’ Oracle database [read that as "non-Exadata, non-ASM" database] chained rows, in small numbers where that usually means 1% or less of the total rows in a ta
z/OS TCP/IP Network Management Fundamentals: Filling the Gap
(Laura Knapp) As our systems have evolved, so, too, has our management focus. Beginning with managing a single system resource, to tightly integrated systems and their resources, to today’s focus on service management, this evolution over the past 50 years has built on fundamentals refined over this
JQuery Not Selector Example
This tutorial explains usage of the not selector in jQuery. The not selector selects all the elements that do not match with specified element with in the web page.
Self Determined Project Advice
In response to my editorial from 6/18 on Self Determined Projects Dilip writes: To the best of my knowledge, many of us have been following this approach for years. I had a developer with a commerce background who wanted to work on an engineering related project of stress and strain analysis in bridge construction. He did wonders. He not only […]
SSWUGtv: Today, Steve addresses self-service BI data-use issues.
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Directing emails/alerts to the person/group who can diagnose the issue
Directing emails/alerts to the person/group who can diagnose the issue We need to determine which team should be contacted first if a given job (or job step in some cases) fails! A lot of times when there is an error in the middle of the night, the chances are that the DBA did not author the failing process and therefore...

