(Michael T. Dinh) This is just another post on how to create standby database from active database. By the way, I do love Oracle’s technology most of the time.
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csscan: error while loading shared libraries: libnnz10.so: cannot open shared object file
(Mohamed Azar) When trying to execute csscan utility for Oracle 10g home, I have faced the below errors
ParallelLoopState and Parallel.ForEach
(K. Scott Allen) The Task Parallel Library is a joy to work with – it’s easy to use and thorough. Recently I was using Parallel.ForEach to process a large collection, but wanted to stop processing early, across all threads, if an individual item met specific criteria.
C#/.NET Toolbox: Creating a ‘Safer’ Task Dispose()
(James Michael Hare) This post is another in a series that contains generic utility classes I’ve developed along the way to help make coding a bit easier.
SpinWait.SpinUntil and the Task Parallel Library
(Jeffrey Juday) Blocking executing code and periodically checking some value before proceeding is commonly done in asynchronous and parallel programming. Often blocking and checking is combined with some sort of timeout. SpinUntil, a static method on the SpinWait structure; combines blocking, waitin
Burned by the .NET Client Framework
(Michael K. Campbell) I recently wasted over an hour dealing with a horrible development experience that made me wonder if I had strayed into some sort of sadistic alternate universe. And since bumping into this little slice of hell was so simple, I thought I’d share what I learned as a public servi
The PDSE data set type is here to stay if you are DB2 9 or above
(Willie Favero) Back in the day of DB2 Version 8 installations, there was this thing going around that you might have to use PDSE for DB2. It turned that was not true, at least not true at the time for Version 8. However, as time (and releases) change, so do the rules of what you need and don’t n
New T-SQL Features in SQL Server 2011
(Divya Agrawal) SQL Server 2011 has several major enhancements including a new look for SSMS. SSMS is now similar to Visual Studio with greatly improved Intellisense support.
SSIS #101 – Use expressions to pass parameters to ADO.NET Source
(Sherry Li) I have several posts on how to pass parameters to
SQL SERVER – Denali – DMV – sys.dm_os_windows_info – Information about Operating System
(Pinal Dave) One more quick introduction to DMV for Denali. Following DMV provides information about Windows Operating System. Here is the quick example of the same.