(James F. Koopmann) Auditing of an Oracle database has became big business. So much so that entire companies have dedicated complete solutions to the process. Let’s first get a level-set of what auditing is, at least from Oracle’s perspective. Within the 2-Day+ Security Guide, Oracle defines auditin
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IBM Cognos Proven Practices: IBM Cognos Executive Viewer Server Sizing Guidelines
(Michiel Epema) Many factors can have an impact on the performance of IBM Cognos Executive Viewer and therefore there are no hard and fast rules for hardware specifications. However, it is possible to provide some guidelines that can help in determining a typical minimum configuration.
Understanding and handling SQL Server Transaction Deadlocks
(Vishal Nayan) Deadlocks occur when two users have locks on separate objects and each user wants a lock on the other’s object. When this happens, SQL Server ends the deadlock by automatically choosing one and aborting the process, allowing the other process to continue.
How to Turn Off SSMS Auto Recovery Feature
(Jugal Shah) By default the Auto Recovery feature is enabled for SSMS and because of this when opening SSMS it may hang or become unresponsive for some time if the previous session was closed unexpectedly. There is not a way to turn this feature off from within SSMS, but we will look at how this ca
Lightswitch Where Does It Belong
Lightswitch – Where Does It Belong Some like it…some like it not. David C says: I have been using Lightswitch for over a month now and it is a great RAD tool. We are using it for an in-house admin tool to allow the BAs to edit metadata for our own code generation tool. It works great until you have […]
SelecTViews – Interview with Sarah Barela, Manager of Database Services at MaximumASP
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SelecTViews With Stephen Wynkoop and Sam Brace Find out the latest news involving NewsGator’s Social Sites 2010 software, HTML5 development and more. In the "In My Humble Opinion (IMHO)" section, MVP Stephen Wynkoop answers questions about server consolidation. And Sam Brace, community manager for SSWUG.ORG, has an extensive interview with MVP Kevin Kline about cutting costs in the cloud, particularly […]
Dynamic ASP.NET MVC 3 models using Mono’s Compiler as a Service
(Jon Galloway) I had an idea for an interactive MVC sample which will let you see the scaffolded editor and display for a model. I thought about a few ways to do this, the first being Mono’s compiler as a service. So far it’s a partial success – the model scaffolding works, but the attributes don’t
Automatically Generate Code Using Visual Studio’s Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4)
(Vince Varallo) Visual Studio has built in support for generating code called the Text Template Transformation Toolkit. This article will demostrate how to create a class with a property for each column in a database table. The sample can easily be extended to fit any pattern you use when developing
Convert your ASP.Net app to Windows Azure
(Harikrishnan Manikkothu) If you are excited about Windows Azure platform and wanted to see how your web application behaves in new cloud environment, this article is for you to follow step by step process to convert your app and move to cloud environment.