(Don Jones) As an increasing number of companies look to implement business intelligence (BI) systems, new ways of meeting their BI performance and scalability needs are emerging, in the process giving potential technology buyers additional deployment options to evaluate and consider.
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Find the hidden command prompt in Windows Server 2008 installation
(Rick Vanover) Windows Server 2008’s installation is very straightforward, which is great. However, if any tweaks are needed on the server before the installation occurs, it may be difficult to make any tweaks without some drive swapping or repetitive iterations of the installation process.
Where is METHOD_OPT SIZE REPEAT’s repeat value stored?
(Neil Johnson) In my last post When does METHOD_OPT SIZE REPEAT not obey we saw how SIZE REPEAT sometimes appears to know best and creates a FREQUENCY histogram with a different number of buckets than previously specified.
New White Paper on HADR Read on Standby
(Susan Visser) There is a new white paper that I recently learned about that I thought I would pass on to you:
Exploring Oracle GoldenGate – Creating Dump Files
(Steve Callan) Getting Oracle GoldenGate up and running in a simple configuration for unidirectional replication is fairly easy to accomplish. The simplicity of this, compared to what it takes in Oracle Streams, will make you appreciate how much easier it can be to use GoldenGate.
Upgrading passwords from old_passwords to ‘new passwords’
(Shlomi Noach) You have old_passwords=1 in your my.cnf. I’m guessing this is because you used one of the my-small.cnf, my-large.cnf etc. templates provided with your MySQL distribution.
DB2’s GOT TALENT – FINALS – ‘The Cream of the Crop’ Compete for your VOTES
(Scott Hayes) During February 2011, nearly 40 contestants competed in DB2’s GOT TALENT for 10 Finalist positions! Our judges made tough decisions! We’ve narrowed the contestants and their tips and lessons learned down to the “best of the best”!
What is SVG
(Darla Ferrara) As Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) moves into the forefront, scalable vector graphics (SVG) is coming into focus, as well. SVG is not new, just under utilized until recently.
Oracle11g: Zero Sized Unusable Indexes Part II (Nathan Adler)
(Richard Foote) In my previous post, I discussed how Oracle from 11g R2 onwards will automatically drop the segment and associated storage from unusable index objects.
A Random Exploration Of Closure Use Cases In Javascript
(Ben Nadel) Yesterday, in my post on “circumventing” private variables in Javascript using method reassignment, I got into a long conversation with Tim Stevens regarding the way private variables work from a technical standpoint.