(Scott Hanselman) I have a love/hate relationship with the ASP.NET Session. It’s such a convenient place to put things, but when you start putting applications into production there are a number of less-than-obvious edge cases that can come up and bite you.
Other News
ASP.NET MVC Dev Series IV : Using Astoria as a front for the Back-End Database
(Kevin Hoffman) I reailze that the Entity Framework is designed very specifically to serve as a queryable model that fronts a back-end database. The issue I have with that is that the back-end database is not always immediately accessible to my web application. In fact, sometimes, the back-end datab
Working Around ASP.NET’s HyperLink ImageUrl Bug
(Donnie Hale) If you develop software long enough, you’ll inevitably run into bugs in your platform or framework of choice. It’s important on those occasions that you know how to apply the tools at your disposal to clarify the source of the bug; reproduce it in a deterministic fashion; and either fi
Package Cache in DB2 LUW
(Manoj K Sardana) I was a little busy from past sometime so didn’t get a chance to post anything. There are a lot new things I read from last 1 month. There are some interesting posts from Susan Visser about the availability of the books in India, about the salary survey, about IDUG and some polls.
ASP.NET Hang and OutOfMemory exceptions caused by STA components
(Tess Fernandez) I have talked about blocked finalizers before and this issue is a special case of blocked finalizers where we are not really finalizing a .NET object but rather cleaning up all Com Callable Wrappers (CCWs) and getting stuck doing that.
MySQL: How do you set up master/slave replication in MySQL? (CentOS, RHEL, Fedora)
(CrazyToon) Before we go into how to set up master/slave replication in MySQL, let us talk about some of the reasons I have set up master/slave replication using MySQL.
DB2 History 101: Version 1.3
(Willie Favero) After only 14 months, a new release (DB2 V1 R3) went GA on June 26, 1987. Even in that short period of time, there were lots of changes made to DB2. The GA announcement of DB2 V1.3 was also the end of service (EoS) announcement for DB2 V1.2. V1.2 would go out of service on June 30, 1
Load generator for Oracle
(James F. Koopmann) Swingbench is a great tool for putting a load on your Oracle database. The Swingbench site has some good documentation and sample runs, but sometimes another example can be helpful. Here is how I ran tests. Hopefully it will help anyone looking for additional examples. This parti
Oracle Standby Recovery Rate Monitoring
(Paul Moen) So you have created your standby database using the RMAN DUPLICATE command, you have set the ARCHIVE_LAG_TARGET to maintain a minimum lag target, and you have sorted out those nasty datafile missing errors using automatic file management. You’ve even added standby redo logs to improve th
SET Options and Execution Plans
In one of the client engagements, we had seen that the runtime execution plan that was getting picked up was different than the plan that we would have thought that the optimizer would go by (based on testing and analysis against the same data set). Now, there can be several reasons for this includi