(Henrik Loeser) A couple of years back I was on a trip to Spain. During the taxi to the runway in Frankfurt, our aircraft was diverted to a parking position to get a technical problem fixed.
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An Introduction to IBM Data Studio
(David Simpson) IBM Data Studio is a no-charge product provided by IBM to allow users, developers and administrators to interact with databases from a client machine. IBM Data Studio may be used on a variety of platforms, but is most commonly used with the DB2 family of products.
How to retreive data from XML File in Java.
(Hadrich Mohamed) There are many ways to store data. You can use a Text File or Database or even XML File. It is very important to use xml to store and retreive from because it is very simple , easy and designed to be self-descriptive.
Standalone 12c grid install example
(Bobby Durrett) I’m running version 6 of Oracle’s Linux in a VMWare Player 4 gigabyte virtual machine on my Windows 7 laptop. I ran into a couple of key points that I wanted to document.
How to upgrade Dynamic Sampling on a Query already using an imported SQL Profile
(Carlos Sierra) I have this query that references a couple of Global Temporary Tables (GTT). These GTT have no CBO Statistics, thus Dynamic Sampling (DS) is used on them. The problem is default value of 2 at the instance level samples only 64 blocks and these GTT are large.
The Recycle Bin does not Store Tables from the SYSTEM Tablespace
(Andrew Reid) Oracle introduced the recyclebin in version 10. This post shows that tables in the SYSTEM tablespace do not go into the recyclebin when they are dropped. It was tested on Oracle 11.2.0.2.7. First I created a table in the USERS tablespace:
OSB Publish: exception with apparent valid XSLT
(Martien van den Akker) I ran into this earlier, but today it happened to me again, so apparently a blog would be a good idea.
Workflow Differences Between $scope.$watch() and Attributes.$observe() In AngularJS
(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, I spent about an hour trying to figure out why my attributes.$observe() callback wasn’t being invoked in my transcluded directive in AngularJS. After much digging, it turned out to be a difference in the way the two types of callbacks are registered.
Java is Faster than Dot Net
Today I came across a thread on linkedin asking the question, “Is the java engine faster than Dot Net.” Intrigued I read further and found that the answer for that particular code was definitely Java was at least twice as fast. I’m not providing more detail because it wasn’t really the comparison that I came away with as being important. […]
SSWUGtv: How do you make sure you plug up data protection holes? Steve is giving away some great tips today.
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