(Kenneth Fisher) A while back I did a post defining a transaction. Basically, a transaction is a unit of work. The example I gave in that post was pretty straightforward. Transferring money between two individuals.
Other News
Db2 for z/OS: IIPHONORPRIORITY and zIIP offload
(Robert Catterall) There is something I have encountered a couple of times (most recently, just a month ago) that can have a negative performance impact on a Db2 for z/OS system, and it’s something of which quite a few Db2 people are, I think, unaware.
Desktop Safari Seems To Add Extra Padding To CSS Flexbox Item Inside List Item
(Ben Nadel) Earlier this morning, in a post about trying to center-align a text-overflow: ellipsis effect using CSS Flexbox, I mentioned that I ran into a really odd desktop Safari behavior that appeared to add extra padding to the first Flexbox item if it was contained within a list item.
What’s new in Azure SignalR 1.1.0 Preview 1
(Ken) We just shipped 1.1.0 Preview 1 of Azure SignalR Service SDK to support some new features in ASP.NET Core 3.0, including endpoint routing and server-side Blazor.
The Fundamentals of Improving Productivity with Custom Tag Helpers in ASP.NET Core
(Peter Vogel) Some time back I wrote a post on a custom HtmlHelper that generated my typical block of HTML: A fieldset element containing a label, a textbox and a validation message element.
TEXT and BLOB good practices
(Federico Razzoli) TEXT and BLOB are MySQL variable-length types for long texts and long binary data. They are often misused. Sometimes they are used because they are an ORM’s default type for strings.
Notes: Troubleshooting GRID opatchauto and Sample GRID OOP Log
(mdinh) Troubleshooting opatchauto Issues in Grid Infrastructure Environment (Doc ID 2467266.1)
Systemd service to start/stop Oracle
(mgogala) In recent days, I’ve been privy to several discussions of systemd service to start/stop oracle instance.
JavaScript Pipelining using Asynchronous Generators to implement Running Aggregates
(Lucas Jellema) As of ES 2018 (recent browsers or Node 10), JavaScript support asynchronous generators. Generators are functions that return a set of values, one value at a time.
Looking for errors in the Clusterware and RAC logs? Dash through using the TFA Collector
(Natik Ameen) The Oracle Trace File analyzer utility has been originally developed by Oracle to help collect and bundle up all the pertinent diagnostic data in the log files, tracefiles, os statistics, etc..