(Ilmar Kerm) When instance fails in Oracle RAC, the services that were using this instance as a preferred instance are automatically relocated to instances marked as available for this service. But after the failed instance recovers and starts up again, the relocated services are not moved back and
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(Scott Spendolini) Joel Kallman has an interesting and amusing reaction to a recent Gartner paper authored by Mark Driver posted here. After reading Joel’s reply and Mark’s paper, it got me thinking a bit about what was both in and not in the Gartner review and conclusions regarding Oracle Forms mi
Detect DOM Node Insertions with JavaScript and CSS Animations
(David Walsh) I work with an awesome cast of developers at Mozilla, and one of them in Daniel Buchner. Daniel’s shared with me an awesome strategy for detecting when nodes have been injected into a parent node without using the deprecated DOM Events API.
Download Files in ASP.NET MVC 3 using Controller Action
(Mahesh Sabnis) The FileResult action that comes out of box with ASP.NET MVC3 provides an easy to use abstraction for downloading files in an ASP.NET MVC application.
New Resource for Web Developers – Add Linked Data to HTML with RDFa.info
(Eric Franzon) For Web Developers who have been looking for resources devoted to adding Linked Data to HTML, there’s a new site available today: RDFa.info. Visitors are greeted with the following headline, “RDFa is an extension to HTML5 that helps you markup things like People, Places, Events, Recip
Object Calisthenics In JavaScript – My First Attempt
(Ben Nadel) Last week, I brought up the topic of Object Calisthenics which is an idea defined by Jeff Bay as an exercise to force people to think in “objects.” Object Calisthenics imposes very strict rules that require you to jump through potentially unnecessary hoops.
Administering (and Changing) a DB2 for z/OS Database: The Right Tools for the Job
(Robert Catterall) A lot of DB2 for z/OS DBAs are being asked to do more these days:
Practical SQL: Defining Your Data: TEXT and LABEL
(Joe Pluta) Today’s article is my first dedicated to Data Definition Language (DDL), the specific SQL syntax used to define tables. It’s counterpart in the green-screen world is Data Description Specifications (DDS), the simple data definition language we’ve used forever.
BIGINT – Upper limit – Overflow – SQL Server
(Vadivel) Recently I was asked when we use INT data type and it reaches its limit what do we do? The following is the error message we would see when it reaches its upper limit.
SQL Server source control from Visual Studio
(David Atkinson) Developers have long since had to context switch between two IDEs, Visual Studio for application code development and SQL Server Management Studio for database development. While this is accepted, especially given the richness of the database development feature set in SSMS, loading