(Steve Endow) I’m posting this for my own reference because I can never remember the full syntax and I regularly have to look it up.
Other News
The Recovery Area: Why it is recommended
(Uwe Hesse) With 10g, the concept of the Recovery Area – associated with the parameter DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST – was introduced. It was designed in the first place for customers who use Disk Storage as their primary backup media.
3 ways to localize SharePoint XSLT
(Andrey Markeev) SharePoint often provides several ways to accomplish the same task. And more often than not, the majority of the approaches are far from being effective.
Simplify Workflow with Custom Activities
(Peter Vogel) In my article on using Workflow to support long running operations in an service-oriented kind of way, I mentioned in passing that you have the option to create custom activities for your workflows. Here’s how to do that.
Real-Time SQL Monitoring – Retention (part 2)
(Doug Burns) As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been looking at increasing the SQL Monitoring Retention at my current site using _sqlmon_max_plans but, as well as confirming with Oracle Support that they’re happy for us to do so, it would be nice to know what the resulting memory footprint would b
Oracle XMLDB XQuery Update in Database Release 11.2.0.3.0
(Marco Gralike) I just made use of the very cool OTN Virtual Developer Day Database site. In this environment you can follow OTN Developer Day sessions, for example, at home, while making use of all the material available on that site plus the downloadable Virtualbox OTN Developer Day Appliance. Des
Code Review Workflow in Visual Studio vNext – Visual Studio 11 / TFS 11
(Subodh Sohoni) There are many new features that Microsoft intends to introduce in VS11 / TFS 11. In this article I am going to take an overview of the code review feature which is one of the new standard features. Till TFS 2010, we used to implement code review workflow with the custom work item, c
Working With Time Zones And Daylight Savings Time (DST) In ColdFusion And Java
(Ben Nadel) I’m working on a personal project that was going to have some Twilio-powered mobile integration. This feature depended on being able to send an SMS text message to a user at a given time each day. While this might sound simple, it is actually quite a complex matter.
Classes and Structs in C#
(Eric Fleming) There are two main concrete ways of encapsulating data and behavior in the common type system of the .NET Framework: classes and structs. Each one offers benefits over the other, and in this article I am going to briefly introduce these two concepts and discuss how to use each and whe
Customize SharePoint Custom Lists Using MS InfoPath 2010
(Hesham Saad) The default SharePoint 2010 list forms (DispForm , EditForm & NewForm) are quite generic (as they were with previous SharePoint versions).. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to customize the look & feel of them?