(Gerald) A quick post for how to set the date and time on Oracle Linux via the date command. This post is more for my own documentation but hey, it might help others as well.
Other News
orachk can now warn about unwanted cleanup of files in /var/tmp/.oracle
(Martin Bach) Some time ago @martinberx mentioned on twitter that one of his Linux systems suffered from Clusterware issues for which there wasn’t a readily available explanation.
SQL SERVER – Enable Lock Pages in Memory LPIM
(Pinal Dave) One of my recent clients had a very interesting situation of memory pressure, which we detected during the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. In most of the cases, my clients have either CPU pressure issue or the disk/IO issue. However, in this particular case, we had memo
Robot Skills & Messaging APIs
(Johnathan Ortiz-Sonnen) Messaging services set the stage for humans to interact with programmable robots using the same devices we already use to talk with each other.
Azure SQL Database – Azure Portal Updates
(blobeater) A small but useful change has been made to the Azure Portal for Data Platform objects.
How big can you make a SQL Server transaction log file?
(Denny Cherry) While the GUI (SSMS) has UNLIMITED in there, that’s actually not the right answer here. If you set the truncation log file to UNLIMITED and click save, it’ll actually reset the maximum file size to 2TB, since that’s actually the max supported size of a transaction log file.
Double Check Locking in Java
(Ayusch Jain) In this post, we’ll be taking a look at some techniques of creating a Singleton object in RxJava. Most importantly, we’ll be learning about double check locking in java.
Best practices: Monitor and control Db2 system resources with profile tables
(Adrian Burke and Paul McWilliams) In Db2 for z/OS you can use the profile monitoring capability to monitor or limit resource consumption by distributed database facility (DDF) workloads.
How to fix dfu-util, STM, WinUSB, Zadig, Bootloaders and other Firmware Flashing issues on Windows
(Scott Hanselman) I’m pretty happy with Windows 10 as my primary development box. It can do most anything I want, run a half-dozen Linuxes, and has a shiny new open source Terminal, and has great support for Docker now.
Building Messaging Endpoints in Azure: Container Instances
(jimmybogard) In the last post, we looked at Azure WebJobs as a means of deploying messaging endpoints. And while that may work for smaller loads and simpler systems, as the number of message endpoints grows, dealing with a “sidecar” in a WebJob starts to become untenable.