Oktober 2006 - Einträge

Refactoring Databases
21 Oktober 06 04:35 | Urs Meier - Blog on IT
" Refactoring Databases" is a new book from Scott W. Ambler and Pramod J. Sadalage . They basically promote the agile development principles of software development into databases. The difficulty with databases is the fact, that we must manage...
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citizendium
18 Oktober 06 12:19 | Urs Meier - Blog on IT
The "better" wikipedia starts under citizendium . I really admire and support people who are willing to put so much effort into public know-how or software, such as open source. But as as user of these open products, it is hard to understand...
Agile Software Development
05 Oktober 06 06:41 | Urs Meier - Blog on IT
Agile Development puts people over processes. In my opinion this is a good trend, even though not completely new. Lately I was reading a very interesting blog about Agile Software Development at Google . I agree with the comments of many readers: Steve...
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CLB_GOAL LONG or SHORT?
04 Oktober 06 09:39 | Urs Meier - Blog on IT
With Oracle 10g R2 FAN and FCF we can load balance connections and requests over a "service". The service is defined to be run on one or more instances on the RAC. Services take a CLB_GOAL LONG or SHORT and are created with DBMS_SERVICE.CREATE_SERVICE...
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Oracle 10g RAC load balancing
03 Oktober 06 07:51 | Urs Meier - Blog on IT
Lately we have done some tests with Oracle 10g R2 load balancing and connection failover for RAC. Both features are mainly useful for application servers. The bottom line: the JDBC driver from Oracle works, the ODP.NET provider not yet. Load balancing...
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