(Chuck Rivel) I have been asked on numerous occasions to provide a data feed that provides data for a customer, or plant or some other entity with a catch, can you take a one to many relationship and make one column of data out of it.
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Generating XML with Experts
(David Allan) The leveraging XDB post (here) from a few years ago is one of the most actively read posts, since that was done there have been a few more updates on the expert posted within it. One of the updated areas was in the generation of XML using the Oracle Database using the expert., the area
Meuchian Grouping Method – XSLT 1.0
(Lighton Phiri) I have a huge XML document that makes up metadata for bushman drawings that were compiled in the late 19th centuary and recently digitised. I am trying to generate a view of part of that information, but I need to rearrange the structure of some XML elements.
XML Simple Attributes
Recall that attributes are used to provide additional information about an XML element. Only complex elements are allowed to contain attributes, however, the attributes themselves are considered simple types.
Getting Contact, Photos, And Social Media Information Using FullContact.com And An Email Address
(Ben Nadel) As the web becomes more socially-focused, it’s becoming more important to give our software a social vibe. Often times, this can be accomplished by simply accenting the user interface with photos.
Unit Testing 4.0 Web Forms Including Event Handlers Like Page_Load Using Dynamic
(Sean Sparling) If you’re too lazy or just plain impatient, you can find the source code here.
Auto DOP: Differences of parallel_degree_policy=auto/limited
(Uwe Hesse) Recently, I delivered a Seminar about Parallel Processing in 11g where I came across some interesting findings, that I’d like to share with the Oracle Community. See my introduction into the 11g New Feature Auto DOP here, if that topic is completely new for you. There are big differences
Adding OCR and Voting Disk on NFS mount – 11gR2
(Anand) From 11gR2 as the OCR and voting disk are stored on ASM storage the grid installer doesn’t show the option to specify multiple OCR and voting disk locations.We have the ocr and voting disk stored on NFS mounted file system and during the installation only one location was specified.
Even a ‘One-Box’ DB2 Data Sharing Group Can Boost Availability
(Robert Catterall) Back in the mid-1990s, when organizations were first implementing DB2 for z/OS data sharing groups on Parallel Sysplex mainframe clusters, there were ALWAYS multiple server “boxes” involved.
Uh, uh… who caused that error? MySQL ?!
(Ulf Wendel) Support nightmare: a customer reports a random PHP MySQL error. As a support expert you have the strong feeling that it is down to some suspicious SQL sequence. How to proof? 25 lines of PECL/mysqlnd_uh swiss-army knife magic…