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(Steve C. Orr) You’ve had problems with the WebForm designer in Visual Studio.NET. I know you have. Controls have refused to go where you drag them, or they show up in different places at run time than design time. Or maybe the designer has chosen to reformat HTML that you’ve carefully typed. In fac
Get More from Your Oracle Database: Best Practice Performance Management for Real Results
Cutting costs and improving service levels — this is the top priority for the DBA team. This white paper illustrates why “Wait-Event” analysis has become the industry best-practice for database performance, and highlights Resource Mapping Methodology (RMM), a complete approach to Wait-Event perform
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(A.P. Lawrence) Traditionally, Unix systems used text files with wildly varying internal structures, and Windows used either binary data or “.ini” text files (in this sense, “binary” is used for anything that you can’t access directly with a simple text editor). More recently, Windows abandoned .ini
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(Sandor Szabo) IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 10.0 provides transparent optimization and exploitation of Linux environments, using asynchronous, direct, and vectored I/O for performance and processor affinity to achieve improved scalability and parallelism. The performance and reliability of
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