(Alex Gorbachev) Since the introduction of ASM in Oracle 10g Release 1, every ASM administrator has been dreaming of a simple command line tool to copy files between ASM diskgroups and other filesystems. Oracle ASM 10g Release 2 added the handy asmcmd utility, but even though everyone expected a cop
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As you already know, when you take back-ups in SQL Server, the LSN (Log Sequence Number) gets stored in the backup file. These LSNs are referenced when you are doing a restore of the database. The reason why these LSNs are stored in the backup files is to make sure that when we do the restore, the f
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(Benjamin Busjaeger, Hong Sun and Yuntao Zhou) The Relationship Service in IBM WebSphere Process Server is an infrastructure service that is well integrated with other transformation components to support the development of complex integration solutions. It frees integration developers from needing
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It has come to my attention that some of our MSDB databases are getting what I would consider large for a system database. Some of our MSDB databases are over 2 GB which is a little perplexing because I know we do not create any user defined objects in that database. Can you give me some insight i
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(Scott Hayes) First, my apologies for being away from the blog keyboard for so long. Kim Moutsos actually contacted me to see if I was still alive. Truth be known, my grandmother died, my father is in the hospital battling cancer, and I’ve been traveling the US States quite a bit helping companies s