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- Practice using Oracle's Remote Diagnostic Agent before you need it
- RDA precursor to Config MgrRDA is a great tool. I have had dozens of service requests with Oracle, and those techs that take the time to acquire and go through the RDA output have always been able to identify problems faster and more accurately.More importantly, RDA is a precursor...
- Tags: agent, blarman, RDA, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-08
- Explore Oracle 10g's updated sample schemas
- A good start, but need moreWhile it is nice to find out there are additional sample schemas to look at/play with, an explanation of each would have solidified the post as great. Without knowing what things I might learn from a particular schema, it isn't likely I'd go installing...
- Tags: blarman, schema, Explore Oracle 10g
- Discussion threads 2007-06-13
- Interop '07: CMP announces 'Best of Interop' winners
- Reasons? Products?Can't be more disappointed. WHAT was the product that won the award? WHY was it the best?What a waste of an article.
- Tags: blarman, Interop
- Discussion threads 2007-05-29
- Debug PHP applications with Xdebug and Komodo
- Equivalent for Windows?Is there an equivalent for Windows-based installs?
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, blarman, PHP
- Discussion threads 2007-05-22
- Are Quarterly patches a good idea on Database Servers?
- No better wayTiming is the most important element here. Long holiday weekends are a boon to this process and the curse to the IT people, but it has to be done. I can't count the number of holiday weekends I've had to work on just these type ...
- Tags: Storage, Databases, blarman, patch management, database, database server
- Discussion threads 2007-05-09
- Enable the Outlook e-mail editor (How do I... Create easy-to-use Outlook e-mail templates?)
- Did anyone else have a hard time following this?I have to say, that this was one of the most difficult walk-throughs I have ever seen TechRepublic post. The topic material isn't that difficult, yet the step-by-step was utterly confusing to navigate and didn't show a real example.Instead of posting...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, E-mail clients, blarman, Save Templates, draft copy, Microsoft Outlook, e-mail, Outlook e-mail
- Discussion threads 2007-05-07
- Don't overlook STATSPACK in Oracle 10g
- How to use statspack?That's great. Maybe you can follow with a story about how to use STATSPACK...
- Tags: Application servers, blarman, Statspack, Oracle Application Server 10g, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-18
- Rogue Process?
- Has anyone ever come across the sansv.exe process? We found it on our SQL Server (Win 2K3 - fully patched) today after it crippled our internal network with packet traffic. Killing the process seemed to directly relate to a huge drop in server communications back to normal, but...
- Tags: Port 129, blarman, sansv.exe, windows, security, it management, virus, networking, malware, attack, network, server
- Discussion threads 2007-02-21
- Handy console commands in Windows 2000 Server
- Examples?Examples of use of these would be a nice finishing touch. Without them, this is a B-.
- Tags: blarman, command line, console, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, server, windows
- Discussion threads 2007-01-02
- Consider Oracle 10gR2's Instant Client Light for application deployment
- Wow, this looks a lot like...... a package we put together. Our programmers went through the entire 700MB + install and started stripping out files until he got down to a bare-bones client that functioned great and only took up 10 MB. It was a sim
- Tags: oracle, database, software, blarman, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-13
- Utilizing Diskuse in Windows 2000 Server
- Examples?Screenshots? Examples of use? Show me how the tool is useful, not just that there is a tool...
- Tags: blarman, Examples, hardware, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, server, useless
- Discussion threads 2006-08-29
- (Images: Web surfers dream up electric 'sheep')
- Looks like a thesis paper to me......for some enterprising soul in any combination of human behavior, biology, statistics, and computer science.Trippy.
- Tags: biological algorithms, blarman, it management, Web
- Discussion threads 2006-08-07
- Find sequence gaps using Oracle's analytic functions
- OK, but......what usefulness is this? IMO, if you have an application that relies on sequential unique ID's, you should be change your DB/app design.This is also completely useless for clustered DB's, as sequential ID's are a huge performance hit.What about legacy systems that need this?They don't just go away...
- Tags: SELECT, seqeunces, blarman, software, Carton, Oracle Corp., SELECT Measurement_ID
- Discussion threads 2006-07-05
- How to disable annoying message
- I do a LOT of file editing. I rename extensions to files all the time, and I would like to find out how to disable that annoying "If you change a filename extension, the file may become unusable" message.There has GOT to be a registry hack or something in...
- Tags: DOS, explorer.EXE
- Q&A 2006-03-27
- Using PHP on the command line
- This would be more helpful if...... there was an example showing how to solve a particular problem.
- Tags: Scripting languages
- Discussion threads 2006-02-28
- Configure client-side offline file settings in Windows 2000 Pro
- Examples?I used to like reading the TechRepublic articles because they included walkthroughs and examples of how to do something. Now it just seems that everything has gone to "This is a cool feature", but there are no demos.Please bring back the demos.I agree!I agree 100%. It has become...
- Tags: blarman, hardware, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, techrepublic
- Discussion threads 2005-11-15
- Identify services from a Windows 2000 command console with Sclist
- Useless ArticleIt is nice to know of the existence of a tool, but anyone can do that. A truly informative and useful article like others I have seen on this site walks the reader through the use of the tool and analysis of the outcome.Why don't you re-write this...
- Tags: blarman, console, hardware, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, tool, waste of time
- Discussion threads 2005-10-25
- Protect data during power outages by adding a UPS to Windows 2000 Pro machines
- Demo would have been niceMost people already know that the service is available. Running through an actual demo is more valuable.I disagreeI don't know what you're basing that on. I have used UPSes for several years, been vaguely aware of this capability, but never bothered after getting it charged...
- Tags: blarman, hardware, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, United Parcel Service of America Inc., ups
- Discussion threads 2005-10-04
- Check system uptime and other statistics in Windows NT
- I prefer BGINFOI like BGinfo - displays all the same info right on the screen - especially useful for dealing with multiple servers on a KVM.
- Tags: BgInfo, blarman, hardware, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT
- Discussion threads 2005-04-07
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