(Bob Watkins) Oracle’s Automatic Storage Management (ASM), introduced in Oracle 10g, provides an alterative to raw disk devices for storing Oracle-related files. Like raw disks, ASM volumes (called diskgroups) have no filesystem and cannot be browsed directly at the operating system level. This make
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Complete and total Wednesday brain freeze
(Willie Favero) Yup, I’ve lost it. I’m sitting here trying to decide what I should blog about today and I can’t some up with anything. I’m have a NULL moment.. Nothing I think of today seems to pertain to anything.. (smile)…. In fact, I’m having difficulty today trying to remember what I have alread
XML Explorer
(jcoon) At work, I find myself constantly having to view XML files. Some of the files I work with are extremely large (150MB+). Internet Explorer and Firefox take forever to open these files. I like the way Visual Studio 2005 provides the ability expand/collapse individual elements, collapse or expa
ILOG Diagrammer for .NET
(Damon Armstrong) As one of my clients explained his business processes in scattered and disjoint terms, my mind was focused entirely on an idea. I was attempting to capture his business processes in a diagram for the current discussion and future reference, but we continually found ourselves revisi
Developing a Web service using an industry-specific messaging standard
(Abdul Allam and Andre Tost) Web services are a key ingredient of service-oriented computing and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Interactions between service consumers and service providers are primarily message-based. The structure of these messages is defined in a service’s interface definiti
VS 2008 Nested Master Page Support
(Scott Guthrie) “Master Page” support was one of the most popular features introduced with ASP.NET 2.0, and is one of those features that almost every new ASP.NET project now uses to deliver consistent layout template support across a web site.
Building Web Pages Using Microsoft Silverlight
(Jesudas Chinnathampi) Silverlight is a new technology from Microsoft. In simple words, Silverlight is a browser plug-in for delivering .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web ap
A Look at Microsoft SQL Server Upgrade Advisor
(S. Srivathsani) Microsoft SQL Server Upgrade Advisor tool helps the user with the process of upgrading SQL Server 2000 (or 7.0) instances to SQL Server 2005. It analyzes the configuration of installed SQL Server 2000 (or 7.0) components and generates reports. The reports give an idea of the issues
FIX: A database is marked as suspect when you update a table that contains a nonclustered index in SQL Server 2005
When you update a table that contains a nonclustered index in a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database, the database is marked as suspect.
A Coherent Story
(Antony Reynolds) This week I managed to sit in on just over half a new training course on Oracles new Coherence product, acquired through the purchase of Tangosol. Coherence is described as a data grid, although as we will see that is not a particularly helpful image. I knew that Steve Harris, ou