©Editor B
Well, it looks like next month could prove itself to be quite light on writing assignments. The question has come up many times as to what I should do during this down-time. 

While I still have the potential to write articles across [...]

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©David
Microsoft will be opening up, more specifically providing documentation, and describing how their applications communicate between each other. By court order, Microsoft will be providing draft versions by the end of March 2009.

This potentially means that any programmer, not even a recognized [...]

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©laihiu
Part VI in our series will show you how to access and generate reports off of the trace files we generated in Part V through the use of the TKPROF and trcsess utilities.

In the last part of this series we re-visited methods on [...]

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©laihiu
Part V in our series will get closer to what we have for years experienced as Oracle’s tracing mechanism. Read On and get re-acquainted with creating trace files for TKPROF.

For many years DBAs have been getting low level tracing information about session through [...]

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©laihiu
Part IV in our series will focus on determining which internal Oracle views hold the information to our enabled statistical gathering.

In Part III we left off displaying the enabled traces and statistic gatherings we enabled through the DBMS_MONITOR package. Recall that in Part [...]

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©laihiu
Explore how to enable and disable Oracle tracing with DBMS_MONITOR package in 10g.

Along with these possibly new session identifiers, there has always been three session environment variables that get set from when a user connects to the database and are important when talking [...]

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©laihiu
This part of the series is an extension to Part I and show how to set two more very important session environment variables so as to make tracing more effective. Read on and learn how to set the module and action names.

In Part [...]

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©laihiu
This is the first in a series to introduce some of the new tracing concepts and options within Oracle. This installment focuses on the new CLIENT_IDENTIFIER environment variable that can be assigned to sessions.

The goal of this series is to inform DBAs on [...]

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©Bradii

Did you know that the number of homes in the United States that have a broadband Internet connection has decreased so much that the US is now ranked 15 among 30 of the so-called developed nations of the world. This is huge considering [...]

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©Yello Park

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water….Twitter flounders again.
 

I had my head down all week, working various blog postings, white papers, and marketing literature for the masses. I missed my Twitter for the simple reason [...]

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