Do you need an attack plan? I am not sure EBay had one recently. They had intrusion into their database containing user information. They are trying to play down the impact of the breech by saying you only need to change your password. This is something you should do anyway. However, they say your user name, password, name, email addresses, […]
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SQL Server Agility … and more
SQL Server Agility … and more I’m excited to be hosting the webcast with DH2i – we’ll have a couple of outstanding presenters talking about things you need to think about, points to consider and some solutions when it comes to building out SQL Server solutions that help you support your high availability requirements, even moving beyond clustering, mirroring and […]
SQL Server Error : The current transaction cannot be committed and cannot support operations that write to the log file. Roll back the transaction.
(Mayuran Parathalingam) Two of my colleagues had the following error recently and I helped them resolve it. So I thought of writing a blog on how to prevent this error with a simple example.
CERTPROPERTY – Digging Deeper into SQL Server Certificates
(Sebastian Meine) SQL Server certificates come with a variety of properties. To retrieve some of these properties, you can use the built-in CERTPROPERTY function.
New Finding Unused Indexes Query
(Josh Berkus) As long as we’re overhauling standard monitoring queries for PostgreSQL, here’s another one. This query helps you find indexes which are relatively unused, and as a result could probably be dropped. I wrote a more complex (yes, really) version for our internal Performance Health Chec
New DB2 BLU video – Analytics on IBM POWER: the game is changing
(Henrik Loeser) Do you like playing “Connect Four” (4 gewinnt, Four in a Row, Fire på stribe, Connecta 4, …)? Well, there is a new new video talking about DB2 with BLU Acceleration, SAP BW, and DB2 on POWER. And it has an ending that is typical for IBM 🙂 The customer wins. See for yourself…
This APAR is just way too cool to just be an APAR
(Willie Favero) Today’s post started out as one of my APAR Friday post, in fact my first post for the month of May. However, the more I read about what this APAR delivered, the more I released it was much much more.
The Semantic Web: Is the reality finally catching up with the hype?
(Jon Bakke) It’s hard to believe that just 25 years ago the idea of linking together databases so people could access information easily was limited to research universities and prescient sci-fi writers.
12c New Optimizer Features
(Randolf Geist) Besides the officially available information about new optimizer features in 12c it is always a good idea to have a look at the internal optimizer parameters that show what features are enabled when running with OPTIMIZER_FEATURES_ENABLE = 12.1.0.1.
ORA-01446
(Andrew Reid) This was tested on Oracle 11.2. First I created a table and inserted 2 identical values in it: