(Brian Peasland) We want to plan an incremental backup on Oracle 9i with RMAN. How can I detemine the levels of incremental backups? In other words, when do I use level 2 or 3 or 4 or 000 or 9? (R)
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ASP.NET and Windows Workflows Foundation
(scott) Combining ASP.NET 2.0 and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) will provide us with all the essential tools for building workflow-enabled web applications. Both ASP.NET and WF, however, are significant pieces of technology. Joining the two into a long-term relationship requires some careful thou
Security Inside Out-Oracle Security Solutions
Information Security has changed radically in the last decade, and is more important today than it has ever been in the past. Security has become more visible as a business issue across all industries and affecting organizations of all sizes. In the current environment a security breach has the pote
Creating Your Own Drawing Application with Visual Basic .NET
(Hannes du Preez) Because I’m a Visual Basic 6 veteran, I’ve always wanted to be able to write a proper Drawing Application. Without the use of the Windows API, Visual Basic 6’s graphics capabilities was a bit too limited for my taste. GDI+ came to my rescue. This article series will introduce you t
Leverage taxonomies for enterprise search using IBM OmniFind, IBM Classification Module, and SchemaLogic
(Jochen Dörre, Josemina Magdalen, Wendi Pohs and Bob St. Clair) Employ professional tools for taxonomy management and auto-classification to enhance enterprise search solutions built with IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition. Use SchemaLogic’s Enterprise Suite to centrally maintain a consolidated enterpr
Database mirroring and its witness
(Greg Robidoux) SQL Server 2005’s database mirroring feature offers new functionality that allows you to configure database failover much easier than in the past. In a previous tip, Database mirroring setup in SQL Server 2005, I walked you through the steps to set up database mirroring as well as ex
New Isolation Levels Available in SQL Server 2005
(Brad M. McGehee) One of the more mysterious features of SQL Server is isolation levels. Whenever a statement is executed, or a data modification is made, it runs under the influence of an isolation level. The isolation level directly impacts the performance of SQL Server, along with the integrity o
FIX: CPU utilization may approach 100 percent on a computer that is running SQL Server 2000 after you run the BACKUP DATABASE statement or the BACKUP LOG statement
Consider the following scenario. You start the SQL Server 2000 service. You execute the BACKUP DATABASE statement or the BACKUP LOG statement at least one time. In this scenario, CPU utilization may approach 100 percent. After approximately 15 minutes or less, CPU utilization decreases.
PlanetMySQL Fixed (And How I Fouled It Up)
(Jay Pipes) OK, so a number of you may have noticed some major gumming up of PlanetMySQL over the last week or so. Some feeds were not appearing at all, and yet other feeds were inserting entries that had nothing to do with MySQL — entries that previously never made it into the PlanetMySQL database.
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