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Why Fusion Middleware matters to Oracle Applications and Fusion Applications customers?

- by Harish Gaur

Did you miss this general session on Monday morning presented by Amit Zavery, VP of Oracle Fusion Middleware Product Management? There will be a recording made available shortly and in the meanwhile, here is a recap. Amit presented 5 strategies customers can leverage today to extend their applications. Figure 1: 5 Oracle Fusion Middleware strategies to extend Oracle Applications & Oracle Fusion Apps 1. Engage Everyone – Provide intuitive and social experience for application users using Oracle WebCenter 2. Extend Enterprise – Extend Oracle Applications to mobile devices using Oracle ADF Mobile 3. Orchestrate Processes – Automate key organization processes across on-premise & cloud applications using Oracle BPM Suite & Oracle SOA Suite 4. Secure the core – Provide single sign-on and self-service provisioning across multiple apps using Oracle Identity Management 5. Optimize Performance – Leverage Exalogic stack to consolidate multiple instance and improve performance of Oracle Applications Session included 3 demonstrations to illustrate these strategies. 1. First demo highlighted significance of mobile applications for unlocking existing investment in Applications such as EBS. Using a native iPhone application interacting with e-Business Suite, demo showed how expense approval can be mobile enabled with enhanced visibility using BI dashboards. 2. Second demo showed how you can extend a banking process in Siebel and Oracle Policy Automation with Oracle BPM Suite.Process starts in Siebel with a customer requesting a loan, and then jumps to OPA for loan recommendations and decision making and loan processing with approvals in handled in BPM Suite. Once approvals are completed Siebel is updated to complete the process. 3. Final demo showcased FMW components inside Fusion Applications, specifically WebCenter. Boeing, Underwriter Laboratories and Electronic Arts joined this quest and discussed 3 different approaches of leveraging Fusion Middleware stack to maximize their investment in Oracle Applications and/or Fusion Applications technology. Let’s briefly review what these customers shared during the session: 1. Extend Fusion Applications We know that Oracle Fusion Middleware is the underlying technology infrastructure for Oracle Fusion Applications. Architecturally, Oracle Fusion Apps leverages several components of Oracle Fusion Middleware from Oracle WebCenter for rich collaborative interface, Oracle SOA Suite & Oracle BPM Suite for orchestrating key underlying processes to Oracle BIEE for dash boarding and analytics. Boeing talked about how they are using Oracle BPM Suite 11g, a key component of Oracle Fusion Middleware with Oracle Fusion Apps to transform their supply chain. Tim Murnin, Director of Supply Chain talked about Boeing’s 5 year supply chain transformation journey. Boeing’s Integrated and Information Management division began with automation of critical RFQ process using Oracle BPM Suite. This 1st phase resulted in 38% reduction in labor costs for RFP. As a next step in this effort, Boeing is now creating a platform to enable electronic Order Management. Fusion Apps are playing a significant role in this phase. Boeing has gone live with Oracle Fusion Product Hub and efforts are underway with Oracle Fusion Distributed Order Orchestration (DOO). So, where does Oracle BPM Suite 11g fit in this equation? Let me explain. Business processes within Fusion Apps are designed using 2 standards: Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) and Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). These processes can be easily configured using declarative set of tools. Boeing leverages Oracle BPM Suite 11g (which supports BPMN 2.0) and Oracle SOA Suite (which supports BPEL) to “extend” these applications. Traditionally, customizations are done within an app using native technologies. But, instead of making process changes within Fusion Apps, Boeing has taken an approach of building “extensions” layer on top of the application. Fig 2: Boeing’s use of Oracle BPM Suite to orchestrate key supply chain processes across Fusion Apps 2. Maximize Oracle Applications investment Fusion Middleware appeals not only to Fusion Apps customers, but is also leveraged by Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel and JD Edwards customers significantly. Using Oracle BPM Suite and Oracle SOA Suite is the recommended extension strategy for Oracle Fusion Apps and Oracle Applications Unlimited customers. Electronic Arts, E-Business Suite customer, spoke about their strategy to transform their order-to-cash process using Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Foundation Packs and Oracle BAM. Udesh Naicker, Sr Director of IT at Elecronic Arts (EA), discussed how growth of social and digital gaming had started to put tremendous pressure on EA’s existing IT infrastructure. He discussed the challenge with millions of micro-transactions coming from several sources – Microsoft Xbox, Paypal, several service providers. EA found Order-2-Cash processes stretched to their limits. They lacked visibility into these transactions across the entire value chain. EA began by consolidating their E-Business Suite R11 instances into single E-Business Suite R12. EA needed to cater to a variety of service requirements, connectivity methods, file formats, and information latency. Their integration strategy was tactical, i.e., using file uploads, TIBCO, SQL scripts. After consolidating E-Business suite, EA standardized their integration approach with Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle AIA Foundation Pack. Oracle SOA Suite is the platform used to extend E-Business Suite R12 and standardize 60+ interfaces across several heterogeneous systems including PeopleSoft, Demantra, SF.com, Workday, and Managed EDI services spanning on-premise, hosted and cloud applications. EA believes that Oracle SOA Suite 11g based extension strategy has helped significantly in the followings ways: - It helped them keep customizations out of E-Business Suite, thereby keeping EBS R12 vanilla and upgrade safe - Developers are now proficient in technology which is also leveraged by Fusion Apps. This has helped them prepare for adoption of Fusion Apps in the future Fig 3: Using Oracle SOA Suite & Oracle e-Business Suite, Electronic Arts built new platform for order processing 3. Consolidate apps and improve scalability Exalogic is an optimal platform for customers to consolidate their application deployments and enhance performance. Underwriter Laboratories talked about their strategy to run their mission critical applications including e-Business Suite on Exalogic. Christian Anschuetz, CIO of Underwriter Laboratories (UL) shared how UL is on a growth path - $1B to $2.5B in 5 years- and planning a significant business transformation from a not-for-profit to a for-profit business. To support this growth, UL is planning to simplify its IT environment and the deployment complexity associated with ERP applications and technology it runs on. Their current applications were deployed on variety of hardware platforms and lacked comprehensive disaster recovery architecture. UL embarked on a mission to deploy E-Business Suite on Exalogic. UL’s solution is unique because it is one of the first to deploy a large number of Oracle applications and related Fusion Middleware technologies (SOA, BI, Analytical Applications AIA Foundation Pack and AIA EBS to Siebel UCM prebuilt integration) on the combined Exalogic and Exadata environment. UL is planning to move to a virtualized architecture toward the end of 2012 to securely host external facing applications like iStore Fig 4: Underwrites Labs deployed e-Business Suite on Exalogic to achieve performance gains Key takeaways are: - Fusion Middleware platform is certified with major Oracle Applications Unlimited offerings. Fusion Middleware is the underlying technological infrastructure for Fusion Apps - Customers choose Oracle Fusion Middleware to extend their applications (Apps Unlimited or Fusion Apps) to keep applications upgrade safe and prepare for Fusion Apps - Exalogic is an optimum platform to consolidate applications deployments and enhance performance

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Why Fusion Middleware matters to Oracle Applications and Fusion Applications customers?

- by Harish Gaur

Did you miss this general session on Monday morning presented by Amit Zavery, VP of Oracle Fusion Middleware Product Management? There will be a recording made available shortly and in the meanwhile, here is a recap. Amit presented 5 strategies customers can leverage today to extend their applications. Figure 1: 5 Oracle Fusion Middleware strategies to extend Oracle Applications & Oracle Fusion Apps 1. Engage Everyone – Provide intuitive and social experience for application users using Oracle WebCenter 2. Extend Enterprise – Extend Oracle Applications to mobile devices using Oracle ADF Mobile 3. Orchestrate Processes – Automate key organization processes across on-premise & cloud applications using Oracle BPM Suite & Oracle SOA Suite 4. Secure the core – Provide single sign-on and self-service provisioning across multiple apps using Oracle Identity Management 5. Optimize Performance – Leverage Exalogic stack to consolidate multiple instance and improve performance of Oracle Applications Session included 3 demonstrations to illustrate these strategies. 1. First demo highlighted significance of mobile applications for unlocking existing investment in Applications such as EBS. Using a native iPhone application interacting with e-Business Suite, demo showed how expense approval can be mobile enabled with enhanced visibility using BI dashboards. 2. Second demo showed how you can extend a banking process in Siebel and Oracle Policy Automation with Oracle BPM Suite.Process starts in Siebel with a customer requesting a loan, and then jumps to OPA for loan recommendations and decision making and loan processing with approvals in handled in BPM Suite. Once approvals are completed Siebel is updated to complete the process. 3. Final demo showcased FMW components inside Fusion Applications, specifically WebCenter. Boeing, Underwriter Laboratories and Electronic Arts joined this quest and discussed 3 different approaches of leveraging Fusion Middleware stack to maximize their investment in Oracle Applications and/or Fusion Applications technology. Let’s briefly review what these customers shared during the session: 1. Extend Fusion Applications We know that Oracle Fusion Middleware is the underlying technology infrastructure for Oracle Fusion Applications. Architecturally, Oracle Fusion Apps leverages several components of Oracle Fusion Middleware from Oracle WebCenter for rich collaborative interface, Oracle SOA Suite & Oracle BPM Suite for orchestrating key underlying processes to Oracle BIEE for dash boarding and analytics. Boeing talked about how they are using Oracle BPM Suite 11g, a key component of Oracle Fusion Middleware with Oracle Fusion Apps to transform their supply chain. Tim Murnin, Director of Supply Chain talked about Boeing’s 5 year supply chain transformation journey. Boeing’s Integrated and Information Management division began with automation of critical RFQ process using Oracle BPM Suite. This 1st phase resulted in 38% reduction in labor costs for RFP. As a next step in this effort, Boeing is now creating a platform to enable electronic Order Management. Fusion Apps are playing a significant role in this phase. Boeing has gone live with Oracle Fusion Product Hub and efforts are underway with Oracle Fusion Distributed Order Orchestration (DOO). So, where does Oracle BPM Suite 11g fit in this equation? Let me explain. Business processes within Fusion Apps are designed using 2 standards: Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) and Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). These processes can be easily configured using declarative set of tools. Boeing leverages Oracle BPM Suite 11g (which supports BPMN 2.0) and Oracle SOA Suite (which supports BPEL) to “extend” these applications. Traditionally, customizations are done within an app using native technologies. But, instead of making process changes within Fusion Apps, Boeing has taken an approach of building “extensions” layer on top of the application. Fig 2: Boeing’s use of Oracle BPM Suite to orchestrate key supply chain processes across Fusion Apps 2. Maximize Oracle Applications investment Fusion Middleware appeals not only to Fusion Apps customers, but is also leveraged by Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel and JD Edwards customers significantly. Using Oracle BPM Suite and Oracle SOA Suite is the recommended extension strategy for Oracle Fusion Apps and Oracle Applications Unlimited customers. Electronic Arts, E-Business Suite customer, spoke about their strategy to transform their order-to-cash process using Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Foundation Packs and Oracle BAM. Udesh Naicker, Sr Director of IT at Elecronic Arts (EA), discussed how growth of social and digital gaming had started to put tremendous pressure on EA’s existing IT infrastructure. He discussed the challenge with millions of micro-transactions coming from several sources – Microsoft Xbox, Paypal, several service providers. EA found Order-2-Cash processes stretched to their limits. They lacked visibility into these transactions across the entire value chain. EA began by consolidating their E-Business Suite R11 instances into single E-Business Suite R12. EA needed to cater to a variety of service requirements, connectivity methods, file formats, and information latency. Their integration strategy was tactical, i.e., using file uploads, TIBCO, SQL scripts. After consolidating E-Business suite, EA standardized their integration approach with Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle AIA Foundation Pack. Oracle SOA Suite is the platform used to extend E-Business Suite R12 and standardize 60+ interfaces across several heterogeneous systems including PeopleSoft, Demantra, SF.com, Workday, and Managed EDI services spanning on-premise, hosted and cloud applications. EA believes that Oracle SOA Suite 11g based extension strategy has helped significantly in the followings ways: - It helped them keep customizations out of E-Business Suite, thereby keeping EBS R12 vanilla and upgrade safe - Developers are now proficient in technology which is also leveraged by Fusion Apps. This has helped them prepare for adoption of Fusion Apps in the future Fig 3: Using Oracle SOA Suite & Oracle e-Business Suite, Electronic Arts built new platform for order processing 3. Consolidate apps and improve scalability Exalogic is an optimal platform for customers to consolidate their application deployments and enhance performance. Underwriter Laboratories talked about their strategy to run their mission critical applications including e-Business Suite on Exalogic. Christian Anschuetz, CIO of Underwriter Laboratories (UL) shared how UL is on a growth path - $1B to $2.5B in 5 years- and planning a significant business transformation from a not-for-profit to a for-profit business. To support this growth, UL is planning to simplify its IT environment and the deployment complexity associated with ERP applications and technology it runs on. Their current applications were deployed on variety of hardware platforms and lacked comprehensive disaster recovery architecture. UL embarked on a mission to deploy E-Business Suite on Exalogic. UL’s solution is unique because it is one of the first to deploy a large number of Oracle applications and related Fusion Middleware technologies (SOA, BI, Analytical Applications AIA Foundation Pack and AIA EBS to Siebel UCM prebuilt integration) on the combined Exalogic and Exadata environment. UL is planning to move to a virtualized architecture toward the end of 2012 to securely host external facing applications like iStore Fig 4: Underwrites Labs deployed e-Business Suite on Exalogic to achieve performance gains Key takeaways are: - Fusion Middleware platform is certified with major Oracle Applications Unlimited offerings. Fusion Middleware is the underlying technological infrastructure for Fusion Apps - Customers choose Oracle Fusion Middleware to extend their applications (Apps Unlimited or Fusion Apps) to keep applications upgrade safe and prepare for Fusion Apps - Exalogic is an optimum platform to consolidate applications deployments and enhance performance TAGS: Fusion Apps, Exalogic, BPM Suite, SOA Suite, e-Business Suite Integration

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Why does Akonadi on KDE 4.6.0 refuse to start?

- by Patches

Akonadi refuses to start on my fresh installation of KDE 4.6.0 from the kubuntu-backports PPA on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, preventing me from usking KMail. Here is the full error output: patches@pleistocene:~/.local/share$ akonadictl start Starting Akonadi Server... done. patches@pleistocene:~/.local/share$ Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) search paths: ("/home/patches/bin", "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/local/bin", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/bin", "/sbin", "/bin", "/usr/games", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/local/libexec", "/usr/libexec", "/opt/mysql/libexec", "/opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin", "/opt/mysql/sbin") Found mysql_install_db: "/usr/bin/mysql_install_db" Found mysqlcheck: "/usr/bin/mysqlcheck" Database process exited unexpectedly during initial connection! executable: "/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi" arguments: ("--defaults-file=/home/patches/.local/share/akonadi//mysql.conf", "--datadir=/home/patches/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/", "--socket=/home/patches/.local/share/akonadi/socket-pleistocene/mysql.socket") stdout: "" stderr: "Could not open required defaults file: /home/patches/.local/share/akonadi//mysql.conf Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted 110209 16:41:12 [Warning] Can't create test file /home/patches/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/pleistocene.lower-test 110209 16:41:12 [Warning] Can't create test file /home/patches/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/pleistocene.lower-test 110209 16:41:12 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. /usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi: Can't find file: './mysql/plugin.frm' (errno: 13) 110209 16:41:12 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it. 110209 16:41:12 InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation. InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to InnoDB: the directory. InnoDB: File name ./ibdata1 InnoDB: File operation call: 'create'. InnoDB: Cannot continue operation. " exit code: 1 process error: "Unknown error" "[ 0: akonadiserver(_Z11akBacktracev+0x35) [0x8086055] 1: akonadiserver() [0x8086516] 2: [0xb772e400] 3: [0xb772e416] 4: /lib/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x51) [0xb6e9f941] 5: /lib/libc.so.6(abort+0x182) [0xb6ea2e42] 6: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_Z17qt_message_output9QtMsgTypePKc+0x8c) [0xb74d62dc] 7: akonadiserver(_ZN15FileDebugStream9writeDataEPKcx+0xc4) [0x8087574] 8: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN9QIODevice5writeEPKcx+0x8e) [0xb757168e] 9: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(+0x103425) [0xb7581425] 10: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN11QTextStreamD1Ev+0x3d) [0xb758295d] 11: akonadiserver(_ZN6QDebugD1Ev+0x43) [0x8081b73] 12: akonadiserver(_ZN13DbConfigMysql19startInternalServerEv+0x1c27) [0x810c177] 13: akonadiserver(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServer20startDatabaseProcessEv+0xe3) [0x8087a23] 14: akonadiserver(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServerC1EP7QObject+0xca) [0x8088b6a] 15: akonadiserver(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServer8instanceEv+0x48) [0x808a1d8] 16: akonadiserver(main+0x364) [0x8080fb4] 17: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7) [0xb6e8bce7] 18: akonadiserver() [0x8080b81] ] " ProcessControl: Application 'akonadiserver' returned with exit code 255 (Unknown error) search paths: ("/home/patches/bin", "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/local/bin", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/bin", "/sbin", "/bin", "/usr/games", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/local/libexec", "/usr/libexec", "/opt/mysql/libexec", "/opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin", "/opt/mysql/sbin") Found mysql_install_db: "/usr/bin/mysql_install_db" Found mysqlcheck: "/usr/bin/mysqlcheck" Database process exited unexpectedly during initial connection! executable: "/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi" arguments: ("--defaults-file=/home/patches/.local/share/akonadi//mysql.conf", "--datadir=/home/patches/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/", "--socket=/home/patches/.local/share/akonadi/socket-pleistocene/mysql.socket") stdout: "" stderr: "Could not open required defaults file: /home/patches/.local/share/akonadi//mysql.conf Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted 110209 16:41:12 [Warning] Can't create test file /home/patches/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/pleistocene.lower-test 110209 16:41:12 [Warning] Can't create test file /home/patches/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/pleistocene.lower-test 110209 16:41:12 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. /usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi: Can't find file: './mysql/plugin.frm' (errno: 13) 110209 16:41:12 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it. 110209 16:41:12 InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation. InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to InnoDB: the directory. InnoDB: File name ./ibdata1 InnoDB: File operation call: 'create'. InnoDB: Cannot continue operation. " exit code: 1 process error: "Unknown error" "[ 0: akonadiserver(_Z11akBacktracev+0x35) [0x8086055] 1: akonadiserver() [0x8086516] 2: [0xb77ae400] 3: [0xb77ae416] 4: /lib/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x51) [0xb6f1f941] 5: /lib/libc.so.6(abort+0x182) [0xb6f22e42] 6: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_Z17qt_message_output9QtMsgTypePKc+0x8c) [0xb75562dc] 7: akonadiserver(_ZN15FileDebugStream9writeDataEPKcx+0xc4) [0x8087574] 8: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN9QIODevice5writeEPKcx+0x8e) [0xb75f168e] 9: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(+0x103425) [0xb7601425] 10: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN11QTextStreamD1Ev+0x3d) [0xb760295d] 11: akonadiserver(_ZN6QDebugD1Ev+0x43) [0x8081b73] 12: akonadiserver(_ZN13DbConfigMysql19startInternalServerEv+0x1c27) [0x810c177] 13: akonadiserver(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServer20startDatabaseProcessEv+0xe3) [0x8087a23] 14: akonadiserver(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServerC1EP7QObject+0xca) [0x8088b6a] 15: akonadiserver(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServer8instanceEv+0x48) [0x808a1d8] 16: akonadiserver(main+0x364) [0x8080fb4] 17: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7) [0xb6f0bce7] 18: akonadiserver() [0x8080b81] ] " ProcessControl: Application 'akonadiserver' returned with exit code 255 (Unknown error) search paths: ("/home/patches/bin", "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/local/bin", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/bin", "/sbin", "/bin", "/usr/games", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/local/libexec", "/usr/libexec", "/opt/mysql/libexec", "/opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin", "/opt/mysql/sbin") Found mysql_install_db: "/usr/bin/mysql_install_db" Found mysqlcheck: "/usr/bin/mysqlcheck" Database process exited unexpectedly during initial connection! executable: "/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi" arguments: ("--defaults-file=/home/patches/.local/share/akonadi//mysql.conf", "--datadir=/home/patches/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/", "--socket=/home/patches/.local/share/akonadi/socket-pleistocene/mysql.socket") stdout: "" stderr: "Could not open required defaults file: /home/patches/.local/share/akonadi//mysql.conf Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted 110209 16:41:12 [Warning] Can't create test file /home/patches/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/pleistocene.lower-test 110209 16:41:12 [Warning] Can't create test file /home/patches/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/pleistocene.lower-test 110209 16:41:12 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. /usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi: Can't find file: './mysql/plugin.frm' (errno: 13) 110209 16:41:12 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it. 110209 16:41:12 InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation. InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to InnoDB: the directory. InnoDB: File name ./ibdata1 InnoDB: File operation call: 'create'. InnoDB: Cannot continue operation. " exit code: 1 process error: "Unknown error" "[ 0: akonadiserver(_Z11akBacktracev+0x35) [0x8086055] 1: akonadiserver() [0x8086516] 2: [0xb778b400] 3: [0xb778b416] 4: /lib/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x51) [0xb6efc941] 5: /lib/libc.so.6(abort+0x182) [0xb6effe42] 6: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_Z17qt_message_output9QtMsgTypePKc+0x8c) [0xb75332dc] 7: akonadiserver(_ZN15FileDebugStream9writeDataEPKcx+0xc4) [0x8087574] 8: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN9QIODevice5writeEPKcx+0x8e) [0xb75ce68e] 9: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(+0x103425) [0xb75de425] 10: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN11QTextStreamD1Ev+0x3d) [0xb75df95d] 11: akonadiserver(_ZN6QDebugD1Ev+0x43) [0x8081b73] 12: akonadiserver(_ZN13DbConfigMysql19startInternalServerEv+0x1c27) [0x810c177] 13: akonadiserver(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServer20startDatabaseProcessEv+0xe3) [0x8087a23] 14: akonadiserver(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServerC1EP7QObject+0xca) [0x8088b6a] 15: akonadiserver(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServer8instanceEv+0x48) [0x808a1d8] 16: akonadiserver(main+0x364) [0x8080fb4] 17: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7) [0xb6ee8ce7] 18: akonadiserver() [0x8080b81] ] " ProcessControl: Application 'akonadiserver' returned with exit code 255 (Unknown error) search paths: ("/home/patches/bin", "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/local/bin", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/bin", "/sbin", "/bin", "/usr/games", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/local/libexec", "/usr/libexec", "/opt/mysql/libexec", "/opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin", "/opt/mysql/sbin") Found mysql_install_db: "/usr/bin/mysql_install_db" Found mysqlcheck: "/usr/bin/mysqlcheck" Database process exited unexpectedly during initial connection! executable: "/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi" arguments: ("--defaults-file=/home/patches/.local/share/akonadi//mysql.conf", "--datadir=/home/patches/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/", "--socket=/home/patches/.local/share/akonadi/socket-pleistocene/mysql.socket") stdout: "" stderr: "Could not open required defaults file: /home/patches/.local/share/akonadi//mysql.conf Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted 110209 16:41:12 [Warning] Can't create test file /home/patches/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/pleistocene.lower-test 110209 16:41:12 [Warning] Can't create test file /home/patches/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/pleistocene.lower-test 110209 16:41:12 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. /usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi: Can't find file: './mysql/plugin.frm' (errno: 13) 110209 16:41:12 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it. 110209 16:41:12 InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation. InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to InnoDB: the directory. InnoDB: File name ./ibdata1 InnoDB: File operation call: 'create'. InnoDB: Cannot continue operation. " exit code: 1 process error: "Unknown error" "[ 0: akonadiserver(_Z11akBacktracev+0x35) [0x8086055] 1: akonadiserver() [0x8086516] 2: [0xb784e400] 3: [0xb784e416] 4: /lib/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x51) [0xb6fbf941] 5: /lib/libc.so.6(abort+0x182) [0xb6fc2e42] 6: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_Z17qt_message_output9QtMsgTypePKc+0x8c) [0xb75f62dc] 7: akonadiserver(_ZN15FileDebugStream9writeDataEPKcx+0xc4) [0x8087574] 8: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN9QIODevice5writeEPKcx+0x8e) [0xb769168e] 9: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(+0x103425) [0xb76a1425] 10: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN11QTextStreamD1Ev+0x3d) [0xb76a295d] 11: akonadiserver(_ZN6QDebugD1Ev+0x43) [0x8081b73] 12: akonadiserver(_ZN13DbConfigMysql19startInternalServerEv+0x1c27) [0x810c177] 13: akonadiserver(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServer20startDatabaseProcessEv+0xe3) [0x8087a23] 14: akonadiserver(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServerC1EP7QObject+0xca) [0x8088b6a] 15: akonadiserver(_ZN7Akonadi13AkonadiServer8instanceEv+0x48) [0x808a1d8] 16: akonadiserver(main+0x364) [0x8080fb4] 17: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7) [0xb6fabce7] 18: akonadiserver() [0x8080b81] ] " ProcessControl: Application 'akonadiserver' returned with exit code 255 (Unknown error) "akonadiserver" crashed too often and will not be restarted! I tried moving the ~/.local/share/akonadi folder and running it fresh, and I also tried starting Akonadi from a brand new user, all to no avail. Requested by @djeikyb: patches@pleistocene:~$ ls -ld ~/.local drwxrwx--- 3 patches patches 4096 2011-02-07 03:15 /home/patches/.local patches@pleistocene:~$ mysql_upgrade Looking for 'mysql' as: mysql Looking for 'mysqlcheck' as: mysqlcheck Running 'mysqlcheck' with connection arguments: '--port=3306' '--socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' mysqlcheck: Got error: 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) when trying to connect FATAL ERROR: Upgrade failed patches@pleistocene:~$ mysql_upgrade -S ~/.local/share/akonadi/socket-pleistocene/ Looking for 'mysql' as: mysql Looking for 'mysqlcheck' as: mysqlcheck Running 'mysqlcheck' with connection arguments: '--port=3306' '--socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' '--socket=/home/patches/.local/share/akonadi/socket-pleistocene/' mysqlcheck: Got error: 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/home/patches/.local/share/akonadi/socket-pleistocene/' (111) when trying to connect FATAL ERROR: Upgrade failed

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The Business of Winning Innovation: An Exclusive Blog Series

- by Kerrie Foy

"The Business of Winning Innovation” is a series of articles authored by Oracle Agile PLM experts on what it takes to make innovation a successful and lucrative competitive advantage. Our customers have proven Agile PLM applications to be enormously flexible and comprehensive, so we’ve launched this article series to showcase some of the most fascinating, value-packed use cases. In this article by Keith Colonna, we kick-off the series by taking a look at the science side of innovation within the Consumer Products industry and how PLM can help companies innovate faster, cheaper, smarter. This article will review how innovation has become the lifeline for growth within consumer products companies and how certain companies are “winning” by creating a competitive advantage for themselves by taking a more enterprise-wide,systematic approach to “innovation”. Managing the Science of Innovation within the Consumer Products Industry By: Keith Colonna, Value Chain Solution Manager, Oracle The consumer products (CP) industry is very mature and competitive. Most companies within this industry have saturated North America (NA) with their products thus maximizing their NA growth potential. Future growth is expected to come from either expansion outside of North America and/or by way of new ideas and products. Innovation plays an integral role in both of these strategies, whether you’re innovating business processes or the products themselves, and may cause several challenges for the typical CP company, Becoming more innovative is both an art and a science. Most CP companies are very good at the art of coming up with new innovative ideas, but many struggle with perfecting the science aspect that involves the best practice processes that help companies quickly turn ideas into sellable products and services. Symptoms and Causes of Business Pain Struggles associated with the science of innovation show up in a variety of ways, like: · Establishing and storing innovative product ideas and data · Funneling these ideas to the chosen few · Time to market cycle time and on-time launch rates · Success rates, or how often the best idea gets chosen · Imperfect decision making (i.e. the ability to kill projects that are not projected to be winners) · Achieving financial goals · Return on R&D investment · Communicating internally and externally as more outsource partners are added globally · Knowing your new product pipeline and project status These challenges (and others) can be consolidated into three root causes: A lack of visibility Poor data with limited access The inability to truly collaborate enterprise-wide throughout your extended value chain Choose the Right Remedy Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions are uniquely designed to help companies solve these types challenges and their root causes. However, PLM solutions can vary widely in terms of configurability, functionality, time-to-value, etc. Business leaders should evaluate PLM solution in terms of their own business drivers and long-term vision to determine the right fit. Many of these solutions are point solutions that can help you cure only one or two business pains in the short term. Others have been designed to serve other industries with different needs. Then there are those solutions that demo well but are owned by companies that are either unable or unwilling to continuously improve their solution to stay abreast of the ever changing needs of the CP industry to grow through innovation. What the Right PLM Solution Should Do for You Based on more than twenty years working in the CP industry, I recommend investing in a single solution that can help you solve all of the issues associated with the science of innovation in a totally integrated fashion. By integration I mean the (1) integration of the all of the processes associated with the development, maintenance and delivery of your product data, and (2) the integration, or harmonization of this product data with other downstream sources, like ERP, product catalogues and the GS1 Global Data Synchronization Network (or GDSN, which is now a CP industry requirement for doing business with most retailers). The right PLM solution should help you: Increase Revenue. A best practice PLM solution should help a company grow its revenues by consolidating product development cycle-time and helping companies get new and improved products to market sooner. PLM should also eliminate many of the root causes for a product being returned, refused and/or reclaimed (which takes away from top-line growth) by creating an enterprise-wide, collaborative, workflow-driven environment. Reduce Costs. A strong PLM solution should help shave many unnecessary costs that companies typically take for granted. Rationalizing SKU’s, components (ingredients and packaging) and suppliers is a major opportunity at most companies that PLM should help address. A natural outcome of this rationalization is lower direct material spend and a reduction of inventory. Another cost cutting opportunity comes with PLM when it helps companies avoid certain costs associated with process inefficiencies that lead to scrap, rework, excess and obsolete inventory, poor end of life administration, higher cost of quality and regulatory and increased expediting. Mitigate Risk. Risks are the hardest to quantify but can be the most costly to a company. Food safety, recalls, line shutdowns, customer dissatisfaction and, worst of all, the potential tarnishing of your brands are a few of the debilitating risks that CP companies deal with on a daily basis. These risks are so uniquely severe that they require an enterprise PLM solution specifically designed for the CP industry that safeguards product information and processes while still allowing the art of innovation to flourish. Many CP companies have already created a winning advantage by leveraging a single, best practice PLM solution to establish an enterprise-wide, systematic approach to innovation. Oracle’s Answer for the Consumer Products Industry Oracle is dedicated to solving the growth and innovation challenges facing the CP industry. Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process solution was originally developed with and for CP companies and is driven by a specialized development staff solely focused on maintaining and continuously improving the solution per the latest industry requirements. Agile PLM for Process helps CP companies handle all of the processes associated with managing the science of the innovation process, including: specification management, new product development/project and portfolio management, formulation optimization, supplier management, and quality and regulatory compliance to name a few. And as I mentioned earlier, integration is absolutely critical. Many Oracle CP customers, both with Oracle ERP systems and non-Oracle ERP systems, report benefits from Oracle’s Agile PLM for Process. In future articles we will explain in greater detail how both existing Oracle customers (like Gallo, Smuckers, Land-O-Lakes and Starbucks) and new Oracle customers (like ConAgra, Tyson, McDonalds and Heinz) have all realized the benefits of Agile PLM for Process and its integration to their ERP systems. More to Come Stay tuned for more articles in our blog series “The Business of Winning Innovation.” While we will also feature articles focused on other industries, look forward to more on how Agile PLM for Process addresses innovation challenges facing the CP industry. Additional topics include: Innovation Data Management (IDM), New Product Development (NPD), Product Quality Management (PQM), Menu Management,Private Label Management, and more! . Watch this video for more info about Agile PLM for Process

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SQL Server Table Polling by Multiple Subscribers

- by Daniel Hester

Background Designing Stored Procedures that are safe for multiple subscribers (to call simultaneously) can be challenging. For example let’s say that you want multiple worker processes to poll a shared work queue that’s encapsulated as a SQL Table. This is a common scenario and through experience you’ll find that you want to use Table Hints to prevent unwanted locking when performing simultaneous queries on the same table. There are three table hints to consider: NOLOCK, READPAST and UPDLOCK. Both NOLOCK and READPAST table hints allow you to SELECT from a table without placing a LOCK on that table. However, SELECTs with the READPAST hint will ignore any records that are locked due to being updated/inserted (or otherwise “dirty”), whereas a SELECT with NOLOCK ignores all locks including dirty reads. For the initial update of the flag (that marks the record as available for subscription) I don’t use the NOLOCK Table Hint because I want to be sensitive to the “active” records in the table and I want to exclude them. I use an Update Lock (UPDLOCK) in conjunction with a WHERE clause that uses a sub-select with a READPAST Table Hint in order to explicitly lock the records I’m updating (UPDLOCK) but not place a lock on the table when selecting the records that I’m going to update (READPAST). UPDATES should be allowed to lock the rows affected because we’re probably changing a flag on a record so that it is not included in a SELECT from another subscriber. On the UPDATE statement we should explicitly use the UPDLOCK to guard against lock escalation. A SELECT to check for the next record(s) to process can result in a shared read lock being held by more than one subscriber polling the shared work queue (SQL table). It is expected that more than one worker process (or server) might try to process the same new record(s) at the same time. When each process then tries to obtain the update lock, none of them can because another process has a shared read lock in place. Thus without the UPDLOCK hint the result would be a lock escalation deadlock; however with the UPDLOCK hint this condition is mitigated against. Note that using the READPAST table hint requires that you also set the ISOLATION LEVEL of the transaction to be READ COMMITTED (rather than the default of SERIALIZABLE). Guidance In the Stored Procedure that returns records to the multiple subscribers: Perform the UPDATE first. Change the flag that makes the record available to subscribers. Additionally, you may want to update a LastUpdated datetime field in order to be able to check for records that “got stuck” in an intermediate state or for other auditing purposes. In the UPDATE statement use the (UPDLOCK) Table Hint on the UPDATE statement to prevent lock escalation. In the UPDATE statement also use a WHERE Clause that uses a sub-select with a (READPAST) Table Hint to select the records that you’re going to update. In the UPDATE statement use the OUTPUT clause in conjunction with a Temporary Table to isolate the record(s) that you’ve just updated and intend to return to the subscriber. This is the fastest way to update the record(s) and to get the records’ identifiers within the same operation. Finally do a set-based SELECT on the main Table (using the Temporary Table to identify the records in the set) with either a READPAST or NOLOCK table hint. Use NOLOCK if there are other processes (besides the multiple subscribers) that might be changing the data that you want to return to the multiple subscribers; or use READPAST if you're sure there are no other processes (besides the multiple subscribers) that might be updating column data in the table for other purposes (e.g. changes to a person’s last name). NOLOCK is generally the better fit in this part of the scenario. See the following as an example: CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[usp_NewCustomersSelect] AS BEGIN -- OVERRIDE THE DEFAULT ISOLATION LEVEL SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ COMMITTED -- SET NOCOUNT ON SET NOCOUNT ON -- DECLARE TEMP TABLE -- Note that this example uses CustomerId as an identifier; -- you could just use the Identity column Id if that’s all you need. DECLARE @CustomersTempTable TABLE ( CustomerId NVARCHAR(255) ) -- PERFORM UPDATE FIRST -- [Customers] is the name of the table -- [Id] is the Identity Column on the table -- [CustomerId] is the business document key used to identify the -- record globally, i.e. in other systems or across SQL tables -- [Status] is INT or BIT field (if the status is a binary state) -- [LastUpdated] is a datetime field used to record the time of the -- last update UPDATE [Customers] WITH (UPDLOCK) SET [Status] = 1, [LastUpdated] = GETDATE() OUTPUT [INSERTED].[CustomerId] INTO @CustomersTempTable WHERE ([Id] = (SELECT TOP 100 [Id] FROM [Customers] WITH (READPAST) WHERE ([Status] = 0) ORDER BY [Id] ASC)) -- PERFORM SELECT FROM ENTITY TABLE SELECT [C].[CustomerId], [C].[FirstName], [C].[LastName], [C].[Address1], [C].[Address2], [C].[City], [C].[State], [C].[Zip], [C].[ShippingMethod], [C].[Id] FROM [Customers] AS [C] WITH (NOLOCK), @CustomersTempTable AS [TEMP] WHERE ([C].[CustomerId] = [TEMP].[CustomerId]) END In a system that has been designed to have multiple status values for records that need to be processed in the Work Queue it is necessary to have a “Watch Dog” process by which “stale” records in intermediate states (such as “In Progress”) are detected, i.e. a [Status] of 0 = New or Unprocessed; a [Status] of 1 = In Progress; a [Status] of 2 = Processed; etc.. Thus, if you have a business rule that states that the application should only process new records if all of the old records have been processed successfully (or marked as an error), then it will be necessary to build a monitoring process to detect stalled or stale records in the Work Queue, hence the use of the LastUpdated column in the example above. The Status field along with the LastUpdated field can be used as the criteria to detect stalled / stale records. It is possible to put this watchdog logic into the stored procedure above, but I would recommend making it a separate monitoring function. In writing the stored procedure that checks for stale records I would recommend using the same kind of lock semantics as suggested above. The example below looks for records that have been in the “In Progress” state ([Status] = 1) for greater than 60 seconds: CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[usp_NewCustomersWatchDog] AS BEGIN -- TO OVERRIDE THE DEFAULT ISOLATION LEVEL SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ COMMITTED -- SET NOCOUNT ON SET NOCOUNT ON DECLARE @MaxWait int; SET @MaxWait = 60 IF EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM [dbo].[Customers] WITH (READPAST) WHERE ([Status] = 1) AND (DATEDIFF(s, [LastUpdated], GETDATE()) > @MaxWait)) BEGIN SELECT 1 AS [IsWatchDogError] END ELSE BEGIN SELECT 0 AS [IsWatchDogError] END END Downloads The zip file below contains two SQL scripts: one to create a sample database with the above stored procedures and one to populate the sample database with 10,000 sample records. I am very grateful to Red-Gate software for their excellent SQL Data Generator tool which enabled me to create these sample records in no time at all. References http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187373.aspx http://www.techrepublic.com/article/using-nolock-and-readpast-table-hints-in-sql-server/6185492 http://geekswithblogs.net/gwiele/archive/2004/11/25/15974.aspx http://grounding.co.za/blogs/romiko/archive/2009/03/09/biztalk-sql-receive-location-deadlocks-dirty-reads-and-isolation-levels.aspx

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PostgreSQL 8.4 won't start after blackout

- by RiZe

I have problem with starting PostgreSQL 8.4 on Ubuntu 9.10 Server after blackout. When I try to connect to the database it says: psql: server closed the connection unexpectedly This probably means the server terminated abnormally before or while processing the request. When I try to start it by using command sudo -u postgres /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 start * Starting PostgreSQL 8.4 database server [ OK ] Netstat output netstat -tulp (No info could be read for "-p": geteuid()=1000 but you should be root.) Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 localhost:postgresql *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 192.168.1.35:svn *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 192.168.1.35:http-alt *:* LISTEN - tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 localhost:postgresql [::]:* LISTEN - tcp6 0 0 [::]:ssh [::]:* LISTEN - udp 0 0 *:bootpc *:* - But still don't work so lets restart it sudo -u postgres /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 restart * Restarting PostgreSQL 8.4 database server * The PostgreSQL server failed to start. Please check the log output: 2009-11-30 13:39:37 CET LOG: database system was shut down at 2009-11-30 13:39:33 CET 2009-11-30 13:39:37 CET LOG: autovacuum launcher started 2009-11-30 13:39:37 CET LOG: database system is ready to accept connections 2009-11-30 13:39:37 CET LOG: incomplete startup packet 2009-11-30 13:39:38 CET LOG: server process (PID 2240) was terminated by signal 11: Segmentation fault 2009-11-30 13:39:38 CET LOG: terminating any other active server processes 2009-11-30 13:39:38 CET LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing 2009-11-30 13:39:38 CET LOG: database system was interrupted; last known up at 2009-11-30 13:39:37 CET 2009-11-30 13:39:38 CET LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress 2009-11-30 13:39:38 CET LOG: record with zero length at 0/11D464C 2009-11-30 13:39:38 CET LOG: redo is not required 2009-11-30 13:39:38 CET LOG: autovacuum launcher started 2009-11-30 13:39:38 CET LOG: database system is ready to accept connections 2009-11-30 13:39:38 CET LOG: server process (PID 2248) was terminated by signal 11: Segmentation fault 2009-11-30 13:39:38 CET LOG: terminating any other active server processes 2009-11-30 13:39:38 CET LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing 2009-11-30 13:39:38 CET LOG: database system was interrupted; last known up at 2009-11-30 13:39:38 CET 2009-11-30 13:39:38 CET LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress 2009-11-30 13:39:38 CET LOG: record with zero length at 0/11D4690 2009-11-30 13:39:38 CET LOG: redo is not required 2009-11-30 13:39:39 CET LOG: autovacuum launcher started 2009-11-30 13:39:39 CET LOG: database system is ready to accept connections 2009-11-30 13:39:39 CET LOG: server process (PID 2256) was terminated by signal 11: Segmentation fault 2009-11-30 13:39:39 CET LOG: terminating any other active server processes 2009-11-30 13:39:39 CET LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing 2009-11-30 13:39:39 CET LOG: database system was interrupted; last known up at 2009-11-30 13:39:38 CET 2009-11-30 13:39:39 CET LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress 2009-11-30 13:39:39 CET LOG: record with zero length at 0/11D46D4 2009-11-30 13:39:39 CET LOG: redo is not required 2009-11-30 13:39:39 CET LOG: autovacuum launcher started 2009-11-30 13:39:39 CET LOG: database system is ready to accept connections 2009-11-30 13:39:39 CET LOG: server process (PID 2264) was terminated by signal 11: Segmentation fault 2009-11-30 13:39:39 CET LOG: terminating any other active server processes 2009-11-30 13:39:39 CET LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing 2009-11-30 13:39:39 CET LOG: database system was interrupted; last known up at 2009-11-30 13:39:39 CET 2009-11-30 13:39:39 CET LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress 2009-11-30 13:39:40 CET LOG: record with zero length at 0/11D4718 2009-11-30 13:39:40 CET LOG: redo is not required 2009-11-30 13:39:40 CET LOG: autovacuum launcher started 2009-11-30 13:39:40 CET LOG: database system is ready to accept connections 2009-11-30 13:39:40 CET LOG: server process (PID 2272) was terminated by signal 11: Segmentation fault 2009-11-30 13:39:40 CET LOG: terminating any other active server processes 2009-11-30 13:39:40 CET LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing 2009-11-30 13:39:40 CET LOG: database system was interrupted; last known up at 2009-11-30 13:39:40 CET 2009-11-30 13:39:40 CET LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress 2009-11-30 13:39:40 CET LOG: record with zero length at 0/11D475C 2009-11-30 13:39:40 CET LOG: redo is not required 2009-11-30 13:39:40 CET LOG: autovacuum launcher started 2009-11-30 13:39:40 CET LOG: database system is ready to accept connections 2009-11-30 13:39:41 CET LOG: server process (PID 2280) was terminated by signal 11: Segmentation fault 2009-11-30 13:39:41 CET LOG: terminating any other active server processes 2009-11-30 13:39:41 CET LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing 2009-11-30 13:39:41 CET LOG: database system was interrupted; last known up at 2009-11-30 13:39:40 CET 2009-11-30 13:39:41 CET LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress 2009-11-30 13:39:41 CET LOG: record with zero length at 0/11D47A0 2009-11-30 13:39:41 CET LOG: redo is not required 2009-11-30 13:39:41 CET LOG: autovacuum launcher started 2009-11-30 13:39:41 CET LOG: database system is ready to accept connections 2009-11-30 13:39:41 CET LOG: server process (PID 2288) was terminated by signal 11: Segmentation fault 2009-11-30 13:39:41 CET LOG: terminating any other active server processes 2009-11-30 13:39:41 CET LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing 2009-11-30 13:39:41 CET LOG: database system was interrupted; last known up at 2009-11-30 13:39:41 CET 2009-11-30 13:39:41 CET LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress 2009-11-30 13:39:41 CET LOG: record with zero length at 0/11D47E4 2009-11-30 13:39:41 CET LOG: redo is not required 2009-11-30 13:39:41 CET LOG: autovacuum launcher started 2009-11-30 13:39:41 CET LOG: database system is ready to accept connections 2009-11-30 13:39:42 CET LOG: server process (PID 2296) was terminated by signal 11: Segmentation fault 2009-11-30 13:39:42 CET LOG: terminating any other active server processes 2009-11-30 13:39:42 CET LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing 2009-11-30 13:39:42 CET LOG: database system was interrupted; last known up at 2009-11-30 13:39:41 CET 2009-11-30 13:39:42 CET LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress 2009-11-30 13:39:42 CET LOG: record with zero length at 0/11D4828 2009-11-30 13:39:42 CET LOG: redo is not required 2009-11-30 13:39:42 CET LOG: autovacuum launcher started 2009-11-30 13:39:42 CET LOG: database system is ready to accept connections 2009-11-30 13:39:42 CET LOG: server process (PID 2304) was terminated by signal 11: Segmentation fault 2009-11-30 13:39:42 CET LOG: terminating any other active server processes 2009-11-30 13:39:42 CET LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing 2009-11-30 13:39:42 CET LOG: database system was interrupted; last known up at 2009-11-30 13:39:42 CET 2009-11-30 13:39:42 CET LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress 2009-11-30 13:39:42 CET LOG: record with zero length at 0/11D486C 2009-11-30 13:39:42 CET LOG: redo is not required 2009-11-30 13:39:43 CET LOG: autovacuum launcher started 2009-11-30 13:39:43 CET LOG: database system is ready to accept connections 2009-11-30 13:39:43 CET LOG: server process (PID 2312) was terminated by signal 11: Segmentation fault 2009-11-30 13:39:43 CET LOG: terminating any other active server processes 2009-11-30 13:39:43 CET LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing 2009-11-30 13:39:43 CET LOG: database system was interrupted; last known up at 2009-11-30 13:39:42 CET 2009-11-30 13:39:43 CET LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress 2009-11-30 13:39:43 CET LOG: record with zero length at 0/11D48B0 2009-11-30 13:39:43 CET LOG: redo is not required 2009-11-30 13:39:43 CET LOG: autovacuum launcher started 2009-11-30 13:39:43 CET LOG: database system is ready to accept connections [fail] So what happened and what can I do to solve this? Thanks for replies

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WSAECONNRESET (10054) error using WebDrive to map to a Subversion/Apache WebDAV share

- by Dylan Beattie

Hello, I'm using WebDrive to map a drive letter to a WebDAV share running on Subversion with the SVNAutoversioning flag enabled. The Subversion server is running CollabNet Subversion Edge with LDAP authentication. When trying to connect using WebDrive, I get: Connecting to site myserver Connecting to http://myserver/webdrive/ Resolving url myserver to an IP address Url resolved to IP address 192.168.0.12 Connecting to 192.168.0.12 on port 80 Connected successfully to the server on port 80 Testing directory listing ... Connecting to 192.168.0.12 on port 80 Connected successfully to the server on port 80 Unable to connect to server, error information below Error: Socket receive failure (4507) Operation: Connecting to server Winsock Error: WSAECONNRESET (10054) The httpd.conf file running on the server contains the following section: <Location /webdrive/> DAV svn SVNParentPath "C:\Program Files\Subversion\data\repositories" SVNReposName "My Subversion WebDrive" AuthzSVNAccessFile "C:\Program Files\Subversion\data/conf/svn_access_file" SVNListParentPath On Allow from all AuthType Basic AuthName "My Subversion Repository" AuthBasicProvider csvn-file-users ldap-users Require valid-user ModMimeUsePathInfo on SVNAutoversioning on </Location> and in the Apache error_yyyy_mm_dd.log file on the server, I'm seeing this when I try to connect via WebDAV: [Mon Jan 10 14:53:22 2011] [debug] mod_authnz_ldap.c(379): [client 192.168.0.50] [5572] auth_ldap authenticate: using URL ldap://mydc/dc=mydomain,dc=com?sAMAccountName?sub [Mon Jan 10 14:53:22 2011] [debug] mod_authnz_ldap.c(484): [client 192.168.0.50] [5572] auth_ldap authenticate: accepting dylan.beattie [Mon Jan 10 14:53:22 2011] [info] [client 192.168.0.50] Access granted: 'dylan.beattie' OPTIONS webdrive:/ [Mon Jan 10 14:53:22 2011] [debug] mod_authnz_ldap.c(379): [client 192.168.0.50] [5572] auth_ldap authenticate: using URL ldap://mydc/dc=mydomain,dc=com?sAMAccountName?sub [Mon Jan 10 14:53:22 2011] [debug] mod_authnz_ldap.c(484): [client 192.168.0.50] [5572] auth_ldap authenticate: accepting dylan.beattie [Mon Jan 10 14:53:22 2011] [info] [client 192.168.0.50] Access granted: 'dylan.beattie' PROPFIND webdrive:/ [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 3221225477 -- Restarting. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [debug] util_ldap.c(1990): LDAP merging Shared Cache conf: shm=0xcd0f18 rmm=0xcd0f48 for VHOST: myserver.mydomain.com [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [debug] util_ldap.c(1990): LDAP merging Shared Cache conf: shm=0xcd0f18 rmm=0xcd0f48 for VHOST: myserver.mydomain.com [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [info] APR LDAP: Built with Microsoft Corporation. LDAP SDK [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [info] LDAP: SSL support unavailable: LDAP: CA certificates cannot be set using this method, as they are stored in the registry instead. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.16 (Win32) DAV/2 SVN/1.6.13 configured -- resuming normal operations [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [notice] Server built: Oct 4 2010 19:55:36 [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [notice] Parent: Created child process 4368 [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [debug] mpm_winnt.c(487): Parent: Sent the scoreboard to the child [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [debug] util_ldap.c(1990): LDAP merging Shared Cache conf: shm=0xca2bb0 rmm=0xca2be0 for VHOST: myserver.mydomain.com [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [debug] util_ldap.c(1990): LDAP merging Shared Cache conf: shm=0xca2bb0 rmm=0xca2be0 for VHOST: myserver.mydomain.com [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [info] APR LDAP: Built with Microsoft Corporation. LDAP SDK [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [info] LDAP: SSL support unavailable: LDAP: CA certificates cannot be set using this method, as they are stored in the registry instead. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [error] python_init: Python version mismatch, expected '2.5', found '2.5.4'. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [error] python_init: Python executable found 'C:\\Program Files\\Subversion\\bin\\httpd.exe'. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [error] python_init: Python path being used 'C:\\Program Files\\Subversion\\Python25\\python25.zip;C:\\Program Files\\Subversion\\Python25\\\\DLLs;C:\\Program Files\\Subversion\\Python25\\\\lib;C:\\Program Files\\Subversion\\Python25\\\\lib\\plat-win;C:\\Program Files\\Subversion\\Python25\\\\lib\\lib-tk;C:\\Program Files\\Subversion\\bin'. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [notice] mod_python: Creating 8 session mutexes based on 0 max processes and 64 max threads. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [notice] Child 4368: Child process is running [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [debug] mpm_winnt.c(408): Child 4368: Retrieved our scoreboard from the parent. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [info] Parent: Duplicating socket 288 and sending it to child process 4368 [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [info] Parent: Duplicating socket 276 and sending it to child process 4368 [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [debug] mpm_winnt.c(564): Child 4368: retrieved 2 listeners from parent [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [notice] Child 4368: Acquired the start mutex. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [notice] Child 4368: Starting 64 worker threads. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [debug] mpm_winnt.c(605): Parent: Sent 2 listeners to child 4368 [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [notice] Child 4368: Starting thread to listen on port 49159. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [notice] Child 4368: Starting thread to listen on port 80. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [debug] mod_authnz_ldap.c(379): [client 192.168.0.50] [4368] auth_ldap authenticate: using URL ldap://mydc/dc=mydomain,dc=com?sAMAccountName?sub [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [debug] mod_authnz_ldap.c(484): [client 192.168.0.50] [4368] auth_ldap authenticate: accepting dylan.beattie [Mon Jan 10 14:53:25 2011] [info] [client 192.168.0.50] Access granted: 'dylan.beattie' PROPFIND webdrive:/ [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 3221225477 -- Restarting. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [debug] util_ldap.c(1990): LDAP merging Shared Cache conf: shm=0xcd4f90 rmm=0xcd4fc0 for VHOST: myserver.mydomain.com [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [debug] util_ldap.c(1990): LDAP merging Shared Cache conf: shm=0xcd4f90 rmm=0xcd4fc0 for VHOST: myserver.mydomain.com [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [info] APR LDAP: Built with Microsoft Corporation. LDAP SDK [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [info] LDAP: SSL support unavailable: LDAP: CA certificates cannot be set using this method, as they are stored in the registry instead. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.16 (Win32) DAV/2 SVN/1.6.13 configured -- resuming normal operations [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [notice] Server built: Oct 4 2010 19:55:36 [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [notice] Parent: Created child process 5440 [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [debug] mpm_winnt.c(487): Parent: Sent the scoreboard to the child [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [debug] util_ldap.c(1990): LDAP merging Shared Cache conf: shm=0xda2bb0 rmm=0xda2be0 for VHOST: myserver.mydomain.com [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [debug] util_ldap.c(1990): LDAP merging Shared Cache conf: shm=0xda2bb0 rmm=0xda2be0 for VHOST: myserver.mydomain.com [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [info] APR LDAP: Built with Microsoft Corporation. LDAP SDK [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [info] LDAP: SSL support unavailable: LDAP: CA certificates cannot be set using this method, as they are stored in the registry instead. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [error] python_init: Python version mismatch, expected '2.5', found '2.5.4'. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [error] python_init: Python executable found 'C:\\Program Files\\Subversion\\bin\\httpd.exe'. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [error] python_init: Python path being used 'C:\\Program Files\\Subversion\\Python25\\python25.zip;C:\\Program Files\\Subversion\\Python25\\\\DLLs;C:\\Program Files\\Subversion\\Python25\\\\lib;C:\\Program Files\\Subversion\\Python25\\\\lib\\plat-win;C:\\Program Files\\Subversion\\Python25\\\\lib\\lib-tk;C:\\Program Files\\Subversion\\bin'. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [notice] mod_python: Creating 8 session mutexes based on 0 max processes and 64 max threads. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [notice] Child 5440: Child process is running [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [debug] mpm_winnt.c(408): Child 5440: Retrieved our scoreboard from the parent. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [info] Parent: Duplicating socket 288 and sending it to child process 5440 [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [info] Parent: Duplicating socket 276 and sending it to child process 5440 [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [debug] mpm_winnt.c(564): Child 5440: retrieved 2 listeners from parent [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [notice] Child 5440: Acquired the start mutex. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [notice] Child 5440: Starting 64 worker threads. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [debug] mpm_winnt.c(605): Parent: Sent 2 listeners to child 5440 [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [notice] Child 5440: Starting thread to listen on port 49159. [Mon Jan 10 14:53:28 2011] [notice] Child 5440: Starting thread to listen on port 80. Browsing http://myserver/webdrive/ from a web browser is working fine, and I have a similar set-up working perfectly on a different SVN server that isn't running Collabnet but has had Subversion and Apache installed and configured separately. Any ideas? The python version error might be red herring - I've seen it in a couple of places in the log files and in other scenarios it doesn't appear to be breaking anything...

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Either, nginx+php-fpm bad config or nginx+php-fpm cannot handle high query?

- by The Wolf

I have wordpress installed in my server configured(hopefully with nginx+php-fpm+mariaDB). I am trying to import using wordpress importer a 1.5MB xml file. Everytime I try to upload it using the importer, it got cut of... meaning just blank screen result.. Here is my error log: actually I just posted 2 of the errors [error] 858#0: *1 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: xx.xxx.xx.xx, server: xxx.com, request: "GET xxxx.html HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000", host: "xxx.com" [error] 858#0: *13 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: xxx.x.xx.xx, server: xxx.com, request: "GET xxxx.php HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000", host: "xxx.com" I don't know what is the reason why it can't process the wordpress export .xml. I already increased max_file_upload & etc., but nothing happens. Hope somebody can help me. Here are my conf: nginx.conf user nginx; worker_processes 8; error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn; pid /var/run/nginx.pid; events { worker_connections 1024; } http { include /etc/nginx/mime.types; default_type application/octet-stream; log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" ' '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" ' '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"'; access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main; sendfile on; #tcp_nopush on; server_tokens off; keepalive_timeout 65; fastcgi_read_timeout 500; #gzip on; client_max_body_size 2M; php-fpm.conf ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; FPM Configuration ; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; All relative paths in this configuration file are relative to PHP's install ; prefix. ; Include one or more files. If glob(3) exists, it is used to include a bunch of ; files from a glob(3) pattern. This directive can be used everywhere in the ; file. include=/etc/php-fpm.d/*.conf ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; Global Options ; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; [global] ; Pid file ; Default Value: none pid = /var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.pid ; Error log file ; Default Value: /var/log/php-fpm.log error_log = /var/log/php-fpm/error.log ; Log level ; Possible Values: alert, error, warning, notice, debug ; Default Value: notice ;log_level = notice ; If this number of child processes exit with SIGSEGV or SIGBUS within the time ; interval set by emergency_restart_interval then FPM will restart. A value ; of '0' means 'Off'. ; Default Value: 0 ;emergency_restart_threshold = 0 ; Interval of time used by emergency_restart_interval to determine when ; a graceful restart will be initiated. This can be useful to work around ; accidental corruptions in an accelerator's shared memory. ; Available Units: s(econds), m(inutes), h(ours), or d(ays) ; Default Unit: seconds ; Default Value: 0 ;emergency_restart_interval = 0 ; Time limit for child processes to wait for a reaction on signals from master. ; Available units: s(econds), m(inutes), h(ours), or d(ays) ; Default Unit: seconds ; Default Value: 0 ;process_control_timeout = 0 ; Send FPM to background. Set to 'no' to keep FPM in foreground for debugging. ; Default Value: yes daemonize = no ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; Pool Definitions ; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; See /etc/php-fpm.d/*.conf [root@host etc]# vim php-fpm.conf [root@host etc]# vim php-fpm.conf ; Default Value: notice ;log_level = notice ; If this number of child processes exit with SIGSEGV or SIGBUS within the time ; interval set by emergency_restart_interval then FPM will restart. A value ; of '0' means 'Off'. ; Default Value: 0 ;emergency_restart_threshold = 0 ; Interval of time used by emergency_restart_interval to determine when ; a graceful restart will be initiated. This can be useful to work around ; accidental corruptions in an accelerator's shared memory. ; Available Units: s(econds), m(inutes), h(ours), or d(ays) ; Default Unit: seconds ; Default Value: 0 ;emergency_restart_interval = 0 ; Time limit for child processes to wait for a reaction on signals from master. ; Available units: s(econds), m(inutes), h(ours), or d(ays) ; Default Unit: seconds ; Default Value: 0 ;process_control_timeout = 0 ; Send FPM to background. Set to 'no' to keep FPM in foreground for debugging. ; Default Value: yes daemonize = no ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; Pool Definitions ; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; See /etc/php-fpm.d/*.conf ps aux [root@host etc]# ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.1 2900 1380 ? Ss Jun02 0:00 init root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun02 0:00 [kthreadd/9308] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun02 0:00 [khelper/9308] root 124 0.0 0.0 2464 576 ? S<s Jun02 0:00 /sbin/udevd -d root 460 0.0 0.1 35976 1308 ? Sl Jun02 0:00 /sbin/rsyslogd -i /var/run/syslogd.pid -c 5 root 474 0.0 0.0 8940 1028 ? Ss Jun02 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd root 481 0.0 0.0 3264 876 ? Ss Jun02 0:00 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid root 491 0.0 0.1 6268 1432 ? S Jun02 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/host.busilak.com. mysql 584 0.1 6.8 679072 71456 ? Sl Jun02 0:04 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --plugin-dir=/usr/lib/mysql/plugin --use root 586 0.0 0.3 12008 3820 ? Ss Jun02 0:01 sshd: root@pts/0 root 629 0.0 0.0 9140 756 ? Ss Jun02 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -m /var/run/saslauthd -a pam -n 2 root 630 0.0 0.0 9140 520 ? S Jun02 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -m /var/run/saslauthd -a pam -n 2 root 645 0.0 0.1 12788 1928 ? Ss Jun02 0:01 sendmail: accepting connections smmsp 653 0.0 0.1 12576 1728 ? Ss Jun02 0:00 sendmail: Queue runner@01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue root 691 0.0 0.1 7148 1184 ? Ss Jun02 0:00 crond root 698 0.0 0.1 6272 1688 pts/0 Ss Jun02 0:00 -bash root 1006 0.0 0.0 7828 924 ? Ss 00:30 0:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf nginx 1007 0.0 0.1 8156 1724 ? S 00:30 0:00 nginx: worker process nginx 1008 0.0 0.1 8024 1360 ? S 00:30 0:00 nginx: worker process nginx 1009 0.0 0.1 8020 1356 ? S 00:30 0:00 nginx: worker process nginx 1011 0.0 0.1 8024 1360 ? S 00:30 0:00 nginx: worker process nginx 1012 0.0 0.1 8024 1360 ? S 00:30 0:00 nginx: worker process nginx 1013 0.0 0.1 8024 1360 ? S 00:30 0:00 nginx: worker process nginx 1014 0.0 0.1 8024 1360 ? S 00:30 0:00 nginx: worker process nginx 1015 0.0 0.1 8024 1344 ? S 00:30 0:00 nginx: worker process root 1030 0.0 0.2 25396 2904 ? Ss 00:30 0:00 php-fpm: master process (/etc/php-fpm.conf) apache 1031 0.0 1.9 40700 20624 ? S 00:30 0:00 php-fpm: pool www apache 1032 0.0 2.0 41924 21888 ? S 00:30 0:01 php-fpm: pool www apache 1033 0.0 1.9 41212 20848 ? S 00:30 0:01 php-fpm: pool www apache 1034 0.0 1.9 40956 20792 ? S 00:30 0:01 php-fpm: pool www apache 1035 0.0 2.0 41560 21556 ? S 00:30 0:02 php-fpm: pool www apache 1040 0.0 1.8 39292 19120 ? S 00:30 0:00 php-fpm: pool www root 1125 0.0 0.0 6080 1040 pts/0 R+ 01:04 0:00 ps aux netstat -l [root@host etc]# netstat -l Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:smtp *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 localhost.locald:cslistener *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:http *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers) Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 60575947 /var/run/saslauthd/mux unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 60574168 @/com/ubuntu/upstart unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 60575873 /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock Hope somebody can help me to figure out what is the problem.

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Convert Excel File 'xls' to CSV, CAUTION: Bumps Ahead

- by faizanahmad

The task was to provide users with an interface where they can upload the 'csv' files, these files were to be processed and loaded to Database by a Console application. The code in Console application could not handle the 'xls' files so we thought, OK, lets convert 'xls' to 'csv' in the code, Seemed like fun. The idea was to convert it right after uploading within 'csv' file. As Microsoft does not recommend using the Excel objects in ASP.NET, we decided to use the Jet engine to open xls. (Ace driver is used for xlsx) The code was pretty straight, can be found on following links: http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/yuanwang200409/102242008174401pm/1.aspx http://www.devasp.net/net/articles/display/141.html FIRST BUMP 'OleDbException (0x80004005): Unspecified error' ( Impersonation ): The ablove code ran fine in my test web site and test console application, but it gave an 'OleDbException (0x80004005): Unspecified error' in main web site, turns out imperonation was set to True and as soon as I changed it to False, it did work. on My XP box, web site was running under user 'ASPNET' with imperosnation set to FALSE 'IUSR_*' i.e IIS guest user with impersonation set to TRUE The weired part was that both users had same rights on the folders I was saving files to and on Excel app in DCOM Config. We decided to give it a try on Windows Server 2003 with web site set to windows authentication ( impersonation = true ) and yes it did work. SECOND BUMP 'External table not in correct format': I got this error with some files and it appeared that the file from client has some metadata issues ( when I opened the file in Excel and try to save it ,excel would give me this error saying File can not be saved in current format ) and the error was caused by that. Some people were able to reslove the error by using "Extended Properties=HTML Import;" in connection string. But it did not work for me. We decided to detour from here and use Excel object :( as we had no control on client setting the meta deta of Excel files. Before third bump there were a ouple of small thingies like 'Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {00024500-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} failed due to the following error: 80070005' Fix can be found at http://blog.crowe.co.nz/archive/2006/03/02/589.aspx THIRD BUMP ( Could not get rid of the EXCEL process ): I has all the code in place to 'Quiet' the excel, but, it just did not work. work around was done to Kill the process as we knew no other application on server was using EXCEL. The normal steps to quite the excel application worked just fine in console application though. FOURTH BUMP: Code worked with one file 1 on my machine and with the other file 2 code will break. and the same code will work perfectly fine with file 2 on some other machine . We moved it to QA ( Windows Server 2003 )and worked with every file just perfect. But , then there was another problem: one user can upload it and second cant, permissions on folder and DCOM Conifg checked. Another Detour: Uplooad the xls as it is and convert in Console application. Lesson Learnt: If its 'xlsx' use 'ACE Driver' or read xml within excel as recommneded by MS. If xls and you know its always going to be properly formatted 'jet Engine' Code: Imports Microsoft.Office.Interop Private Function ConvertFile(ByVal SourceFolder As String, ByVal FileName As String, ByVal FileExtension As String)As Boolean Dim appExcel As New Excel.Application Dim workBooks As Excel.Workbooks = appExcel.Workbooks Dim objWorkbook As Excel.Workbook Try objWorkbook = workBooks.Open(CompleteFilePath ) objWorkbook.SaveAs(Filename:=CObj(SourceFolder & FileName & ".csv"), FileFormat:=Excel.XlFileFormat.xlCSV) Catch ex As Exception GenerateAlert(ex.Message().Replace("'", "") & " Error Converting File to CSV.") LogError(ex ) Return False Finally If Not(objWorkbook is Nothing) then objWorkbook.Close(SaveChanges:=CObj(False)) End If ReleaseObj(objWorkbook) ReleaseObj(workBooks) appExcel.Quit() ReleaseObj(appExcel) Dim proc As System.Diagnostics.Process For Each proc In System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("EXCEL") proc.Kill() Next DeleteSourceFile(SourceFolder & FileName & FileExtension) End Try Return True End Function Private Sub ReleaseObj(ByVal o As Object) Try System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(o) Catch ex As Exception LogError(ex ) Finally o = Nothing End Try End Sub Protected Sub DeleteSourceFile(Byval CompleteFilePath As string) Try Dim MyFile As FileInfo = New FileInfo(CompleteFilePath) If MyFile.Exists Then File.Delete(CompleteFilePath) Else Throw New FileNotFoundException() End If Catch ex As Exception GenerateAlert( " Source File could not be deleted.") LogError(ex) End Try End Sub The code to kill the process ( Avoid it if you can ): Dim proc As System.Diagnostics.Process For Each proc In System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("EXCEL") proc.Kill() Next

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Part 14: Execute a PowerShell script

In the series the following parts have been published Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Add arguments and variables Part 3: Use more complex arguments Part 4: Create your own activity Part 5: Increase AssemblyVersion Part 6: Use custom type for an argument Part 7: How is the custom assembly found Part 8: Send information to the build log Part 9: Impersonate activities (run under other credentials) Part 10: Include Version Number in the Build Number Part 11: Speed up opening my build process template Part 12: How to debug my custom activities Part 13: Get control over the Build Output Part 14: Execute a PowerShell script Part 15: Fail a build based on the exit code of a console application With PowerShell you can add powerful scripting to your build to for example execute a deployment. If you want more information on PowerShell, please refer to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa973757.aspx For this example we will create a simple PowerShell script that prints “Hello world!”. To create the script, create a new text file and name it “HelloWorld.ps1”. Add to the contents of the script: Write-Host “Hello World!” To test the script do the following: Open the command prompt To run the script you must change the execution policy. To do this execute in the command prompt: powershell set-executionpolicy remotesigned Now go to the directory where you have saved the PowerShell script Execute the following command powershell .\HelloWorld.ps1 In this example I use a relative path, but when the path to the PowerShell script contains spaces, you need to change the syntax to powershell "& '<full path to script>' " for example: powershell "& ‘C:\sources\Build Customization\SolutionToBuild\PowerShell Scripts\HellloWorld.ps1’ " In this blog post, I create a new solution and that solution includes also this PowerShell script. I want to create an argument on the Build Process Template that holds the path to the PowerShell script. In the Build Process Template I will add an InvokeProcess activity to execute the PowerShell command. This InvokeProcess activity needs the location of the script as an argument for the PowerShell command. Since you don’t know the full path at the build server of this script, you can either specify in the argument the relative path of the script, but it is hard to find out what the relative path is. I prefer to specify the location of the script in source control and then convert that server path to a local path. To do this conversion you can use the ConvertWorkspaceItem activity. So to complete the task, open the Build Process Template CustomTemplate.xaml that we created in earlier parts, follow the following steps Add a new argument called “DeploymentScript” and set the appropriate settings in the metadata. See Part 2: Add arguments and variables for more information. Scroll down beneath the TryCatch activity called “Try Compile, Test, and Associate Changesets and Work Items” Add a new If activity and set the condition to "Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(DeploymentScript)" to ensure it will only run when the argument is passed. Add in the Then branch of the If activity a new Sequence activity and rename it to “Start deployment” Click on the activity and add a new variable called DeploymentScriptFilename (scoped to the “Start deployment” Sequence Add a ConvertWorkspaceItem activity on the “Start deployment” Sequence Add a InvokeProcess activity beneath the ConvertWorkspaceItem activity in the “Start deployment” Sequence Click on the ConvertWorkspaceItem activity and change the properties DisplayName = Convert deployment script filename Input = DeploymentScript Result = DeploymentScriptFilename Workspace = Workspace Click on the InvokeProcess activity and change the properties Arguments = String.Format(" ""& '{0}' "" ", DeploymentScriptFilename) DisplayName = Execute deployment script FileName = "PowerShell" To see results from the powershell command drop a WriteBuildMessage activity on the "Handle Standard Output" and pass the stdOutput variable to the Message property. Do the same for a WriteBuildError activity on the "Handle Error Output" To publish it, check in the Build Process Template This leads to the following result We now go to the build definition that depends on the template and set the path of the deployment script to the server path to the HelloWorld.ps1. (If you want to see the result of the PowerShell script, change the Logging verbosity to Detailed or Diagnostic). Save and run the build. A lot of the deployment scripts you have will have some kind of arguments (like username / password or environment variables) that you want to define in the Build Definition. To make the PowerShell configurable, you can follow the following steps. Create a new script and give it the name "HelloWho.ps1". In the contents of the file add the following lines: param ( $person ) $message = [System.String]::Format(“Hello {0}!", $person) Write-Host $message When you now run the script on the command prompt, you will see the following So lets change the Build Process Template to accept one parameter for the deployment script. You can of course make it configurable to add a for-loop that reads through a collection of parameters but that is out of scope of this blog post. Add a new Argument called DeploymentScriptParameter In the InvokeProcess activity where the PowerShell command is executed, modify the Arguments property to String.Format(" ""& '{0}' '{1}' "" ", DeploymentScriptFilename, DeploymentScriptParameter) Check in the Build Process Template Now modify the build definition and set the Parameter of the deployment to any value and run the build. You can download the full solution at BuildProcess.zip. It will include the sources of every part and will continue to evolve.

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H12 timeout error on Heroku

- by snowangel

Can anyone shed some light on what's causing this timeout error on Heroku (at 2012-07-08T08:58:33+00:00)? The docs say that it's because of some long running process. I've set config.assets.initialize_on_precompile = false in config/application.rb. EmBP-2:bc Emma$ heroku restart Restarting processes... done EmBP-2:bc Emma$ heroku logs --tail 2012-07-08T08:47:21+00:00 heroku[nginx]: 82.69.50.215 - - [08/Jul/2012:08:47:21 +0000] "GET /assets/application.js HTTP/1.1" 200 311723 "https://codicology.co.uk/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/534.52.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.2 Safari/534.52.7" codicology.co.uk 2012-07-08T08:47:21+00:00 heroku[nginx]: 127.0.0.1 - - [08/Jul/2012:08:47:21 +0000] "GET /assets/application.js HTTP/1.0" 200 1311615 "https://codicology.co.uk/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/534.52.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.2 Safari/534.52.7" codicology.co.uk 2012-07-08T08:51:32+00:00 heroku[slugc]: Slug compilation started 2012-07-08T08:54:05+00:00 heroku[api]: Release v145 created by [email protected] 2012-07-08T08:54:05+00:00 heroku[api]: Deploy 8814b2f by [email protected] 2012-07-08T08:54:05+00:00 heroku[web.1]: State changed from up to starting 2012-07-08T08:54:06+00:00 heroku[slugc]: Slug compilation finished 2012-07-08T08:54:09+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Stopping all processes with SIGTERM 2012-07-08T08:54:09+00:00 heroku[worker.1]: Stopping all processes with SIGTERM 2012-07-08T08:54:09+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Starting process with command `bundle exec unicorn -p 22429 -c ./config/unicorn.rb` 2012-07-08T08:54:10+00:00 app[worker.1]: [Worker(host:2046e0bf-e109-40f2-abdb-10f69d224483 pid:1)] Exiting... 2012-07-08T08:54:11+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:54:11.320616 #1] INFO -- : reaped #<Process::Status: pid 8 exit 0> worker=1 2012-07-08T08:54:11+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:54:11.376765 #1] INFO -- : master complete 2012-07-08T08:54:11+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:54:11.376272 #1] INFO -- : reaped #<Process::Status: pid 5 exit 0> worker=0 2012-07-08T08:54:12+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:54:12.011695 #1] INFO -- : worker=0 spawning... 2012-07-08T08:54:12+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:54:12.011386 #1] INFO -- : listening on addr=0.0.0.0:22429 fd=3 2012-07-08T08:54:12+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:54:12.017917 #5] INFO -- : worker=0 spawned pid=5 2012-07-08T08:54:12+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:54:12.019309 #1] INFO -- : master process ready 2012-07-08T08:54:12+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:54:12.018250 #5] INFO -- : Refreshing Gem list 2012-07-08T08:54:12+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:54:12.016768 #1] INFO -- : worker=1 spawning... 2012-07-08T08:54:12+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:54:12.020863 #8] INFO -- : Refreshing Gem list 2012-07-08T08:54:12+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:54:12.020617 #8] INFO -- : worker=1 spawned pid=8 2012-07-08T08:54:12+00:00 app[worker.1]: SQL (2.9ms) UPDATE "delayed_jobs" SET locked_by = null, locked_at = null WHERE (locked_by = 'host:2046e0bf-e109-40f2-abdb-10f69d224483 pid:1') 2012-07-08T08:54:12+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Process exited with status 0 2012-07-08T08:54:13+00:00 heroku[web.1]: State changed from starting to up 2012-07-08T08:54:14+00:00 heroku[worker.1]: Process exited with status 0 2012-07-08T08:54:14+00:00 heroku[worker.1]: State changed from up to down 2012-07-08T08:54:14+00:00 heroku[worker.1]: State changed from down to starting 2012-07-08T08:54:20+00:00 heroku[worker.1]: Starting process with command `bundle exec rake jobs:work` 2012-07-08T08:54:20+00:00 heroku[worker.1]: State changed from starting to up 2012-07-08T08:54:28+00:00 app[web.1]: DEPRECATION WARNING: You have Rails 2.3-style plugins in vendor/plugins! Support for these plugins will be removed in Rails 4.0. Move them out and bundle them in your Gemfile, or fold them in to your app as lib/myplugin/* and config/initializers/myplugin.rb. See the release notes for more on this: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/1/4/rails-3-2-0-rc2-has-been-released. (called from <top (required)> at /app/config/environment.rb:6) 2012-07-08T08:54:28+00:00 app[web.1]: DEPRECATION WARNING: You have Rails 2.3-style plugins in vendor/plugins! Support for these plugins will be removed in Rails 4.0. Move them out and bundle them in your Gemfile, or fold them in to your app as lib/myplugin/* and config/initializers/myplugin.rb. See the release notes for more on this: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/1/4/rails-3-2-0-rc2-has-been-released. (called from <top (required)> at /app/config/environment.rb:6) 2012-07-08T08:54:28+00:00 app[web.1]: DEPRECATION WARNING: You have Rails 2.3-style plugins in vendor/plugins! Support for these plugins will be removed in Rails 4.0. Move them out and bundle them in your Gemfile, or fold them in to your app as lib/myplugin/* and config/initializers/myplugin.rb. See the release notes for more on this: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/1/4/rails-3-2-0-rc2-has-been-released. (called from <top (required)> at /app/config/environment.rb:6) 2012-07-08T08:54:28+00:00 app[web.1]: DEPRECATION WARNING: You have Rails 2.3-style plugins in vendor/plugins! Support for these plugins will be removed in Rails 4.0. Move them out and bundle them in your Gemfile, or fold them in to your app as lib/myplugin/* and config/initializers/myplugin.rb. See the release notes for more on this: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/1/4/rails-3-2-0-rc2-has-been-released. (called from <top (required)> at /app/config/environment.rb:6) 2012-07-08T08:54:33+00:00 app[web.1]: Starting the New Relic Agent. 2012-07-08T08:54:33+00:00 app[web.1]: Starting the New Relic Agent. 2012-07-08T08:54:33+00:00 app[web.1]: Installed New Relic Browser Monitoring middleware 2012-07-08T08:54:33+00:00 app[web.1]: Installed New Relic Browser Monitoring middleware 2012-07-08T08:54:34+00:00 app[web.1]: 2012-07-08T08:54:34+00:00 app[web.1]: 2012-07-08T08:54:34+00:00 app[web.1]: [DEVISE] Devise.use_salt_as_remember_token is deprecated and has no effect. Please remove it. 2012-07-08T08:54:34+00:00 app[web.1]: 2012-07-08T08:54:34+00:00 app[web.1]: [DEVISE] Devise.use_salt_as_remember_token is deprecated and has no effect. Please remove it. 2012-07-08T08:54:34+00:00 app[web.1]: 2012-07-08T08:54:34+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.2.3/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb:102: warning: already initialized constant XLSX 2012-07-08T08:54:34+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.2.3/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb:102: warning: already initialized constant PDF 2012-07-08T08:54:34+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.2.3/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb:102: warning: already initialized constant PDF 2012-07-08T08:54:34+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.2.3/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb:102: warning: already initialized constant XLSX 2012-07-08T08:54:34+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.2.3/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb:102: warning: already initialized constant PDF 2012-07-08T08:54:34+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.2.3/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb:102: warning: already initialized constant PDF 2012-07-08T08:54:41+00:00 app[worker.1]: DEPRECATION WARNING: You have Rails 2.3-style plugins in vendor/plugins! Support for these plugins will be removed in Rails 4.0. Move them out and bundle them in your Gemfile, or fold them in to your app as lib/myplugin/* and config/initializers/myplugin.rb. See the release notes for more on this: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/1/4/rails-3-2-0-rc2-has-been-released. (called from <top (required)> at /app/Rakefile:10) 2012-07-08T08:54:41+00:00 app[worker.1]: DEPRECATION WARNING: You have Rails 2.3-style plugins in vendor/plugins! Support for these plugins will be removed in Rails 4.0. Move them out and bundle them in your Gemfile, or fold them in to your app as lib/myplugin/* and config/initializers/myplugin.rb. See the release notes for more on this: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/1/4/rails-3-2-0-rc2-has-been-released. (called from <top (required)> at /app/Rakefile:10) 2012-07-08T08:54:45+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for csv with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Importadvancecsv class 2012-07-08T08:54:45+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for csv with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Importpaymentcsv class 2012-07-08T08:54:45+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for csv with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Importpurchasecsv class 2012-07-08T08:54:45+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for csv with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Importadvancecsv class 2012-07-08T08:54:45+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for csv with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Importpaymentcsv class 2012-07-08T08:54:45+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for csv with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Importpurchasecsv class 2012-07-08T08:54:45+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for csv with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Importsalecsv class 2012-07-08T08:54:46+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for csv with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Profitarchive class 2012-07-08T08:54:46+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for csv with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Importsalecsv class 2012-07-08T08:54:46+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for csv with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Profitarchive class 2012-07-08T08:54:46+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for xml with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Onixarchive class 2012-07-08T08:54:47+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for xml with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Onixarchive class 2012-07-08T08:54:48+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:54:48.467693 #8] INFO -- : worker=1 ready 2012-07-08T08:54:48+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:54:48.823800 #5] INFO -- : worker=0 ready 2012-07-08T08:54:48+00:00 app[worker.1]: Starting the New Relic Agent. 2012-07-08T08:54:48+00:00 app[worker.1]: New Relic Agent not running. 2012-07-08T08:54:48+00:00 app[worker.1]: [Worker(host:1eabe514-7ec9-43b0-835b-ff3bd23bc266 pid:1)] New Relic Ruby Agent Monitoring DJ worker host:1eabe514-7ec9-43b0-835b-ff3bd23bc266 pid:1 2012-07-08T08:54:48+00:00 app[worker.1]: Installed New Relic Browser Monitoring middleware 2012-07-08T08:54:49+00:00 app[worker.1]: [Worker(host:1eabe514-7ec9-43b0-835b-ff3bd23bc266 pid:1)] Starting job worker 2012-07-08T08:57:54+00:00 heroku[web.1]: State changed from up to starting 2012-07-08T08:57:56+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Stopping all processes with SIGTERM 2012-07-08T08:57:57+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:57:57.047386 #1] INFO -- : reaped #<Process::Status: pid 5 exit 0> worker=0 2012-07-08T08:57:57+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:57:57.047753 #1] INFO -- : reaped #<Process::Status: pid 8 exit 0> worker=1 2012-07-08T08:57:57+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:57:57.047999 #1] INFO -- : master complete 2012-07-08T08:57:57+00:00 heroku[worker.1]: Stopping all processes with SIGTERM 2012-07-08T08:57:58+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Process exited with status 0 2012-07-08T08:57:58+00:00 app[worker.1]: [Worker(host:1eabe514-7ec9-43b0-835b-ff3bd23bc266 pid:1)] Exiting... 2012-07-08T08:57:59+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Starting process with command `bundle exec unicorn -p 29766 -c ./config/unicorn.rb` 2012-07-08T08:58:01+00:00 app[worker.1]: SQL (27.9ms) UPDATE "delayed_jobs" SET locked_by = null, locked_at = null WHERE (locked_by = 'host:1eabe514-7ec9-43b0-835b-ff3bd23bc266 pid:1') 2012-07-08T08:58:02+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:58:02.070527 #1] INFO -- : listening on addr=0.0.0.0:29766 fd=3 2012-07-08T08:58:02+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:58:02.070782 #1] INFO -- : worker=0 spawning... 2012-07-08T08:58:02+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:58:02.074498 #1] INFO -- : worker=1 spawning... 2012-07-08T08:58:02+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:58:02.075702 #1] INFO -- : master process ready 2012-07-08T08:58:02+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:58:02.076732 #5] INFO -- : worker=0 spawned pid=5 2012-07-08T08:58:02+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:58:02.076957 #5] INFO -- : Refreshing Gem list 2012-07-08T08:58:02+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:58:02.089022 #8] INFO -- : worker=1 spawned pid=8 2012-07-08T08:58:02+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:58:02.089299 #8] INFO -- : Refreshing Gem list 2012-07-08T08:58:02+00:00 heroku[worker.1]: Process exited with status 0 2012-07-08T08:58:02+00:00 heroku[worker.1]: State changed from up to down 2012-07-08T08:58:02+00:00 heroku[worker.1]: State changed from down to starting 2012-07-08T08:58:02+00:00 heroku[web.1]: State changed from starting to up 2012-07-08T08:58:10+00:00 heroku[worker.1]: Starting process with command `bundle exec rake jobs:work` 2012-07-08T08:58:11+00:00 heroku[worker.1]: State changed from starting to up 2012-07-08T08:58:28+00:00 app[worker.1]: DEPRECATION WARNING: You have Rails 2.3-style plugins in vendor/plugins! Support for these plugins will be removed in Rails 4.0. Move them out and bundle them in your Gemfile, or fold them in to your app as lib/myplugin/* and config/initializers/myplugin.rb. See the release notes for more on this: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/1/4/rails-3-2-0-rc2-has-been-released. (called from <top (required)> at /app/Rakefile:10) 2012-07-08T08:58:28+00:00 app[worker.1]: DEPRECATION WARNING: You have Rails 2.3-style plugins in vendor/plugins! Support for these plugins will be removed in Rails 4.0. Move them out and bundle them in your Gemfile, or fold them in to your app as lib/myplugin/* and config/initializers/myplugin.rb. See the release notes for more on this: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/1/4/rails-3-2-0-rc2-has-been-released. (called from <top (required)> at /app/Rakefile:10) 2012-07-08T08:58:33+00:00 heroku[router]: Error H12 (Request timeout) -> GET codicology.co.uk/ dyno=web.1 queue= wait= service=30000ms status=503 bytes=0 2012-07-08T08:58:33+00:00 heroku[nginx]: 127.0.0.1 - - [08/Jul/2012:08:58:33 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 503 601 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/534.52.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.2 Safari/534.52.7" codicology.co.uk 2012-07-08T08:58:33+00:00 heroku[nginx]: 82.69.50.215 - - [08/Jul/2012:08:58:33 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 503 601 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/534.52.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.2 Safari/534.52.7" codicology.co.uk 2012-07-08T08:58:42+00:00 app[worker.1]: New Relic Agent not running. 2012-07-08T08:58:42+00:00 app[worker.1]: [Worker(host:b5fa9243-6f9b-4de4-8f64-adab767fe4b0 pid:1)] New Relic Ruby Agent Monitoring DJ worker host:b5fa9243-6f9b-4de4-8f64-adab767fe4b0 pid:1 2012-07-08T08:58:42+00:00 app[worker.1]: Starting the New Relic Agent. 2012-07-08T08:58:42+00:00 app[worker.1]: Installed New Relic Browser Monitoring middleware 2012-07-08T08:58:43+00:00 app[worker.1]: [Worker(host:b5fa9243-6f9b-4de4-8f64-adab767fe4b0 pid:1)] Starting job worker 2012-07-08T08:58:56+00:00 app[web.1]: DEPRECATION WARNING: You have Rails 2.3-style plugins in vendor/plugins! Support for these plugins will be removed in Rails 4.0. Move them out and bundle them in your Gemfile, or fold them in to your app as lib/myplugin/* and config/initializers/myplugin.rb. See the release notes for more on this: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/1/4/rails-3-2-0-rc2-has-been-released. (called from <top (required)> at /app/config/environment.rb:6) 2012-07-08T08:58:56+00:00 app[web.1]: DEPRECATION WARNING: You have Rails 2.3-style plugins in vendor/plugins! Support for these plugins will be removed in Rails 4.0. Move them out and bundle them in your Gemfile, or fold them in to your app as lib/myplugin/* and config/initializers/myplugin.rb. See the release notes for more on this: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/1/4/rails-3-2-0-rc2-has-been-released. (called from <top (required)> at /app/config/environment.rb:6) 2012-07-08T08:58:56+00:00 app[web.1]: DEPRECATION WARNING: You have Rails 2.3-style plugins in vendor/plugins! Support for these plugins will be removed in Rails 4.0. Move them out and bundle them in your Gemfile, or fold them in to your app as lib/myplugin/* and config/initializers/myplugin.rb. See the release notes for more on this: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/1/4/rails-3-2-0-rc2-has-been-released. (called from <top (required)> at /app/config/environment.rb:6) 2012-07-08T08:58:56+00:00 app[web.1]: DEPRECATION WARNING: You have Rails 2.3-style plugins in vendor/plugins! Support for these plugins will be removed in Rails 4.0. Move them out and bundle them in your Gemfile, or fold them in to your app as lib/myplugin/* and config/initializers/myplugin.rb. See the release notes for more on this: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/1/4/rails-3-2-0-rc2-has-been-released. (called from <top (required)> at /app/config/environment.rb:6) 2012-07-08T08:59:02+00:00 app[web.1]: Starting the New Relic Agent. 2012-07-08T08:59:02+00:00 app[web.1]: Installed New Relic Browser Monitoring middleware 2012-07-08T08:59:02+00:00 app[web.1]: Starting the New Relic Agent. 2012-07-08T08:59:02+00:00 app[web.1]: Installed New Relic Browser Monitoring middleware 2012-07-08T08:59:03+00:00 app[web.1]: 2012-07-08T08:59:03+00:00 app[web.1]: [DEVISE] Devise.use_salt_as_remember_token is deprecated and has no effect. Please remove it. 2012-07-08T08:59:03+00:00 app[web.1]: 2012-07-08T08:59:03+00:00 app[web.1]: 2012-07-08T08:59:03+00:00 app[web.1]: [DEVISE] Devise.use_salt_as_remember_token is deprecated and has no effect. Please remove it. 2012-07-08T08:59:03+00:00 app[web.1]: 2012-07-08T08:59:04+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.2.3/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb:102: warning: already initialized constant XLSX 2012-07-08T08:59:04+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.2.3/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb:102: warning: already initialized constant PDF 2012-07-08T08:59:04+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.2.3/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb:102: warning: already initialized constant PDF 2012-07-08T08:59:04+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.2.3/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb:102: warning: already initialized constant XLSX 2012-07-08T08:59:04+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.2.3/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb:102: warning: already initialized constant PDF 2012-07-08T08:59:04+00:00 app[web.1]: /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/actionpack-3.2.3/lib/action_dispatch/http/mime_type.rb:102: warning: already initialized constant PDF 2012-07-08T08:59:22+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for csv with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Importadvancecsv class 2012-07-08T08:59:22+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for csv with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Importpaymentcsv class 2012-07-08T08:59:22+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for csv with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Importpurchasecsv class 2012-07-08T08:59:22+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for csv with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Importsalecsv class 2012-07-08T08:59:22+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for csv with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Profitarchive class 2012-07-08T08:59:23+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for csv with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Importadvancecsv class 2012-07-08T08:59:23+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for csv with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Importpaymentcsv class 2012-07-08T08:59:23+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for csv with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Importpurchasecsv class 2012-07-08T08:59:23+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for csv with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Importsalecsv class 2012-07-08T08:59:23+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for csv with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Profitarchive class 2012-07-08T08:59:23+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for xml with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Onixarchive class 2012-07-08T08:59:24+00:00 app[web.1]: [paperclip] Duplicate URL for xml with :s3_eu_url. This will clash with attachment defined in Onixarchive class 2012-07-08T08:59:25+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:59:25.555052 #5] INFO -- : worker=0 ready 2012-07-08T08:59:25+00:00 app[web.1]: 2012-07-08T08:59:25+00:00 app[web.1]: 2012-07-08T08:59:25+00:00 app[web.1]: Started GET "/" for 82.69.50.215 at 2012-07-08 08:59:25 +0000 2012-07-08T08:59:26+00:00 app[web.1]: Processing by PagesController#home as HTML 2012-07-08T08:59:26+00:00 app[web.1]: I, [2012-07-08T08:59:26.043501 #8] INFO -- : worker=1 ready 2012-07-08T08:59:26+00:00 app[web.1]: Rendered pages/home.html.haml within layouts/application (5.7ms) 2012-07-08T08:59:26+00:00 app[web.1]: (1.1ms) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM "delayed_jobs" 2012-07-08T08:59:26+00:00 app[web.1]: Rendered layouts/_header.html.erb (4.2ms) 2012-07-08T08:59:26+00:00 app[web.1]: Rendered layouts/_footer.html.haml (1.4ms) 2012-07-08T08:59:26+00:00 app[web.1]: Completed 200 OK in 326ms (Views: 258.4ms | ActiveRecord: 65.2ms)

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Upgrading to Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 2: Top Tips One Must Know

- by AnkurGupta

Recently Oracle announced incremental release of Enterprise Manager 12c called Enterprise Manager 12c Release 2 (EM12c R2) which includes several new exciting features (Press announcement). Right before the official release, we upgraded an internal production site from EM 12c R1 to EM 12c R2 and had an extremely pleasant experience. Let me share few key takeaways as well as few tips from this upgrade exercise. I - Why Should You Upgrade To Enterprise Manager 12c Release 2 While an upgrade is usually recommended primarily to take benefit of the latest features (which is valid for this upgrade as well), I found several other compelling reasons purely from deployment perspective. Standardize your EM deployment: Enterprise Manager comprises of several different components (OMS, agents, plug-ins, etc) and it might be possible that these are at varied patch levels in your environment. For instance, in case of an environment containing Bundle Patch 1 (customer announcement), there is a good chance that you may not have all the components up-to-date. There are two possible reasons. Bundle Patch 1 involved patching different components (OMS, agents, plug-ins) with multiple one-off patches which may not have been applied to all components yet. Bundle Patch 1 for different platforms were not released together. Which means you may not have got the chance to patch all the components on different platforms. Note: BP1 patches are not mandatory to upgrade to EM12c R2 release EM 12c R2 provides an excellent opportunity to standardize your Cloud Control environment (OMS, repository and agents) and plug-ins to latest versions in single shot. All platform releases are made available simultaneously: For the very first time in the history of EM release, all the platforms were released on day one itself, which means you do not need to wait for platform specific binaries for EM OMS or Agent to perform install or upgrades in a heterogeneous environment. Highly refined and automated process – Upgrade process is by far the smoothest and the cleanest as compared to previous releases of Enterprise manager. Following are the ones that stand out. Automatic Plug-in management – Plug-in upgrade along with new plug-in deployment is supported in upgrade installer wizard which means bulk of the updates to OMS and repository can be done in the same workflow. Saves time and minimizes user inputs. Plug-in Upgrade or Migrate Auto Update: While doing the OMS and repository upgrade, you can use Auto Update screen in Oracle Universal Installer to check for any updates/patches. That will help you to avoid the know issues and will make sure that your upgrade is successful. Allows mass upgrade of EM Agents – A new dedicated menu has been added in the EM console for agent upgrade. Agent upgrade workflow is extremely simple that requires agent name as the only input. ADM / JVMD Manager/Agent upgrade – complete process is supported via UI screens. EM12c R2 Upgrade Guide is much simpler to follow as compared to those for earlier releases. This is attributed to the simpler upgrade process. Robust and Performing Platform: EM12c R2 release not only includes several new features, but also provides a more stable platform which incorporates several fixes and enhancements in the Enterprise Manager framework. II - Few Tips To Remember In my last post (blog link) I shared few tips and tricks from my experience applying the Bundle Patch. Recently I upgraded the same site to EM 12c R2 and found few points that you must take note of, while planning this upgrade. The tips below are also applicable to EM 12c R1 environments that do not have Bundle Patch 1 patches applied. Verify the monitored application certification – Specific targets like E-Business Suite have not yet been certified as managed target in EM 12c R2. Therefore make sure to recheck the Enterprise Manager certification Matrix on My Oracle Support before planning the upgrade. Plan downtime – Because EM 12c R2 is an incremental release of EM 12c, for EM 12c R1 to EM 12c R2 upgrade supports only 1-system upgrade approach, which mean there will be downtime. OMS name change after upgrade – In case of multi OMS environments, additional OMS is renamed after upgrade, which has few implications when you upgrade JVMD and ADP agents on OMS. This is well documented in upgrade guide but make sure you read through all the notes. Upgrading BI Publisher– EM12c R2 is certified with BI Publisher 11.1.1.6.0 only. Therefore in case you are using EM 12c R1 which is integrated with BI Publisher 11.1.1.5.0, you must upgrade the BI Publisher to 11.1.1.6.0. Follow the steps from Advanced Installation and Configuration Guide here. Perform Post upgrade Tasks – Make sure to perform post upgrade steps mentioned in documentation here. These include critical changes that must be done right after upgrade to get the right configuration. For instance Database plug-in should be upgraded to Revision 3 (12.1.0.2.0 [u120804]). Delete old OMS Home – EM12c R1 to EM12c R2 is an out of place upgrade, which means it creates a new oracle home for OMS, plug-ins, etc. Therefore please ensure that You have sufficient extra space for new OMS before starting the upgrade process. You clean up the old OMS home after the upgrade process. Steps are available here. DO NOT remove the agent home on OMS host, because agent is upgraded in-place. If you have standby OMS setup then do look into the steps to upgrade the standby OMS from the upgrade guide before going ahead. Read the right documentation – Make sure to follow the Upgrade guide which provides the most comprehensive information on EM12c R2 upgrade process. Additionally you can refer other resources to get familiar with upgrade concepts. Recorded webcast - Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Release 2 Installation and Upgrade Overview Presentation - Understanding Enterprise Manager 12.1.0.2 Upgrade We are very excited about this latest release and will look forward to hear back any feedback from your upgrade experience!

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T-SQL Tuesday #21 - Crap!

- by Most Valuable Yak (Rob Volk)

Adam Machanic's (blog | twitter) ever popular T-SQL Tuesday series is being held on Wednesday this time, and the topic is… SHIT CRAP. No, not fecal material. But crap code. Crap SQL. Crap ideas that you thought were good at the time, or were forced to do due (doo-doo?) to lack of time. The challenge for me is to look back on my SQL Server career and find something that WASN'T crap. Well, there's a lot that wasn't, but for some reason I don't remember those that well. So the additional challenge is to pick one particular turd that I really wish I hadn't squeezed out. Let's see if this outline fits the bill: An ETL process on text files; That had to interface between SQL Server and an AS/400 system; That didn't use SSIS (should have) or BizTalk (ummm, no) but command-line scripting, using Unix utilities(!) via: xp_cmdshell; That had to email reports and financial data, some of it sensitive Yep, the stench smell is coming back to me now, as if it was yesterday… As to why SSIS and BizTalk were not options, basically I didn't know either of them well enough to get the job done (and I still don't). I also had a strict deadline of 3 days, in addition to all the other responsibilities I had, so no time to learn them. And seeing how screwed up the rest of the process was: Payment files from multiple vendors in multiple formats; Sent via FTP, PGP encrypted email, or some other wizardry; Manually opened/downloaded and saved to a particular set of folders (couldn't change this); Once processed, had to be placed BACK in the same folders with the original archived; x2 divisions that had to run separately; Plus an additional vendor file in another format on a completely different schedule; So that they could be MANUALLY uploaded into the AS/400 system (couldn't change this either, even if it was technically possible) I didn't feel so bad about the solution I came up with, which was naturally: Copy the payment files to the local SQL Server drives, using xp_cmdshell Run batch files (via xp_cmdshell) to parse the different formats using sed, a Unix utility (this was before Powershell) Use other Unix utilities (join, split, grep, wc) to process parsed files and generate metadata (size, date, checksum, line count) Run sqlcmd to execute a stored procedure that passed the parsed file names so it would bulk load the data to do a comparison bcp the compared data out to ANOTHER text file so that I could grep that data out of the original file Run another stored procedure to import the matched data into SQL Server so it could process the payments, including file metadata Process payment batches and log which division and vendor they belong to Email the payment details to the finance group (since it was too hard for them to run a web report with the same data…which they ran anyway to compare the emailed file against…which always matched, surprisingly) Email another report showing unmatched payments so they could manually void them…about 3 months afterward All in "Excel" format, using xp_sendmail (SQL 2000 system) Copy the unmatched data back to the original folder locations, making sure to match the file format exactly (if you've ever worked with ACH files, you'll understand why this sucked) If you're one of the 10 people who have read my blog before, you know that I love the DOS "for" command. Like passionately. Like fairy-tale love. So my batch files were riddled with for loops, nested within other for loops, that called other batch files containing for loops. I think there was one section that had 4 or 5 nested for commands. It was wrong, disturbed, and completely un-maintainable by anyone, even myself. Months, even a year, after I left the company I got calls from someone who had to make a minor change to it, and they called me to talk them out of spraying the office with an AK-47 after looking at this code. (for you Star Trek TOS fans) The funniest part of this, well, one of the funniest, is that I made the deadline…sort of, I was only a day late…and the DAMN THING WORKED practically unchanged for 3 years. Most of the problems came from the manual parts of the overall process, like forgetting to decrypt the files, or missing/late files, or saved to the wrong folders. I'm definitely not trying to toot my own horn here, because this was truly one of the dumbest, crappiest solutions I ever came up with. Fortunately as far as I know it's no longer in use and someone has written a proper replacement. Today I would knuckle down and do it in SSIS or Powershell, even if it took me weeks to get it right. The real lesson from this crap code is to make things MAINTAINABLE and UNDERSTANDABLE. sed scripting regular expressions doesn't fit that criteria in any way. If you ever find yourself under pressure to do something fast at all costs, DON'T DO IT. Stop and consider long-term maintainability, not just for yourself but for others on your team. If you can't explain the basic approach in under 5 minutes, it ultimately won't succeed. And while you may love to leave all that crap behind, it may follow you anyway, and you'll step in it again. P.S. - if you're wondering about all the manual stuff that couldn't be changed, it was because the entire process had gone through Six Sigma, and was deemed the best possible way. Phew! Talk about stink!

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SSAS Maestro Training in July 2012 #ssasmaestro #ssas

- by Marco Russo (SQLBI)

A few hours ago Chris Webb blogged about SSAS Maestro and I’d like to propagate the news, adding also some background info. SSAS Maestro is the premier certification on Analysis Services that selects the best experts in Analysis Services around the world. In 2011 Microsoft organized two rounds of training/exams for SSAS Maestros and up to now only 11 people from the first wave have been announced – around 10% of attendees of the course! In the next few days the new Maestros from the second round should be announced and this long process is caused by many factors that I’m going to explain. First, the course is just a step in the process. Before the course you receive a list of topics to study, including the slides of the course. During the course, students receive a lot of information that might not have been included in the slides and the best part of the course is class interaction. Students are expected to bring their experience to the table and comparing case studies, experiences and having long debates is an important part of the learning process. And it is also a part of the evaluation: good questions might be also more important than good answers! Finally, after the course, students have their homework and this may require one or two months to be completed. After that, a long (very long) evaluation process begins, taking into account homework, labs, participation… And for this reason the final evaluation may arrive months later after the course. We are going to improve and shorten this process with the next courses. The first wave of SSAS Maestro had been made by invitation only and now the program is opening, requiring a fee to participate in order to cover the cost of preparation, training and exam. The number of attendees will be limited and candidates will have to send their CV in order to be admitted to the course. Only experienced Analysis Services developers will be able to participate to this challenging program. So why you should do that? Well, only 10% of students passed the exam until now. So if you need 100% guarantee to pass the exam, you need to study a lot, before, during and after the course. But the course by itself is a precious opportunity to share experience, create networking and learn mission-critical enterprise-level best practices that it’s hard to find written on books. Oh, well, many existing white papers are a required reading *before* the course! The course is now 5 days long, and every day can be *very* long. We’ll have lectures and discussions in the morning and labs in the afternoon/evening. Plus some more lectures in one or two afternoons. A heavy part of the course is about performance optimization, capacity planning, monitoring. This edition will introduce also Tabular models, and don’t expect something you might find in the SSAS Tabular Workshop – only performance, scalability monitoring and optimization will be covered, knowing Analysis Services is a requirement just to be accepted! I and Chris Webb will be the teachers for this edition. The course is expensive. Applying for SSAS Maestro will cost around 7000€ plus taxes (reduced to 5000€ for students of a previous SSAS Maestro edition). And you will be locked in a training room for the large part of the week. So why you should do that? Well, as I said, this is a challenging course. You will not find the time to check your email – the content is just too much interesting to think you can be distracted by something else. Another good reason is that this course will take place in Italy. Well, the course will take place in the brand new Microsoft Innovation Campus, but in general we’ll be able to provide you hints to get great food and, if you are willing to attach one week-end to your trip, there are plenty of places to visit (and I’m not talking about the classic Rome-Florence-Venice) – you might really need to relax after such a week! Finally, the marking process after the course will be faster – we’d like to complete the evaluation within three months after the course, considering that 1-2 months might be required to complete the homework. If at this point you are not scared: registration will open in mid-April, but you can already write to [email protected] sending your CV/resume and a short description of your level of SSAS knowledge and experience. The selection process will start early and you may want to put your admission form on top of the FIFO queue!

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Handling User Authentication in C#.NET?

- by Daniel

I am new to .NET, and don't have much experience in programming. What is the standard way of handling user authentication in .NET in the following situation? 1.In Process A, User inputs ID/Password 2.Process A sends the ID/Password to Process B over a nonsecure public channel. 3.Process B authenticates the user with the recieved ID/Password what are some of the standard cryptographic algorithms I can use in above model? The users(customers that bought my company's software) will be running the software(Process A) locally in their computer(connected to internet). I need to authenticate the users so that only registered users can run the program. Thank You!

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Unbuffered subprocess output (last line missing)

- by plok

I must be overlooking something terribly obvious. I need to execute a C program, display its output in real time and finally parse its last line, which should be straightforward as the last line printed is always the same. process = subprocess.Popen(args, shell = True, stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stderr = subprocess.PIPE) # None indicates that the process hasn't terminated yet. while process.poll() is None: # Always save the last non-emtpy line that was output by the child # process, as it will write an empty line when closing its stdout. out = process.stdout.readline() if out: last_non_empty_line = out if verbose: sys.stdout.write(out) sys.stdout.flush() # Parse 'out' here... Once in a while, however, the last line is not printed. The default value for Popens's bufsize is 0, so it is supposed to be unbuffered. I have also tried, to no avail, adding fflush(stdout) to the C code just before exiting, but it seems that there is absolutely no need to flush a stream before exiting a program. Ideas anyone?

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Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g next launch phase - what a week of product releases! Feedback from our

- by Jürgen Kress

Product releases: SOA Suite 11gR1 Patch Set 2 (PS2) BPM Suite 11gR1 Released Oracle JDeveloper 11g (11.1.1.3.0) (Build 5660) Oracle WebLogic Server 11gR1 (10.3.3) Oracle JRockit (4.0) Oracle Tuxedo 11gR1 (11.1.1.1.0) Enterprise Manager 11g Grid Control Release 1 (11.1.0.1.0) for Linux x86/x86-64 All Oracle Fusion Middleware 11gR1 Software Download BPM Suite 11gR1 Released by Manoj Das Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 became available for download from OTN and eDelivery. If you have been following our plans in this area, you know that this is the release unifying BEA ALBPM product, which became Oracle BPM10gR3, with the Oracle stack. Some of the highlights of this release are: BPMN 2.0 modeling and simulation Web based Process Composer for BPMN and Rules authoring Zero-code environment with full access to Oracle SOA Suite’s rich set of application and other adapters Process Spaces – Out-of-box integration with Web Center Suite Process Analytics – Native process cubes as well as integration with Oracle BAM You can learn more about this release from the documentation. Notes about downloading and installing Please note that Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 is delivered and installed as part of SOA 11.1.1.3.0, which is a sparse release (only incremental patch). To install: Download and install SOA 11.1.1.2.0, which is a full release (you can find the bits at the above location) Download and install SOA 11.1.1.3.0 During configure step (using the Fusion Middleware configuration wizard), use the Oracle Business Process Management template supplied with the SOA Suite11g (11.1.1.3.0) If you plan to use Process Spaces, also install Web Center 11.1.1.3.0, which also is delivered as a sparse release and needs to be installed on top of Web Center 11.1.1.2.0 SOA Suite 11gR1 Patch Set 2 (PS2) released by Demed L'Her We just released SOA Suite 11gR1 Patch Set 2 (PS2)! You can download it as usual from: OTN (main platforms only) eDelivery (all platforms) 11gR1 PS2 is delivered as a sparse installer, that is to say that it is meant to be applied on the latest full install (11gR1 PS1). That’s great for existing PS1 users who simply need to apply the patch and run the patch assistant – but an extra step for new users who will first need to download SOA Suite 11gR1 PS1 (in addition to the PS2 patch). What’s in that release? Bug fixes of course but also several significant new features. Here is a short selection of the most significant ones: Spring component (for native Java extensibility and integration) SOA Partitions (to organize and manage your composites) Direct Binding (for transactional invocations to and from Oracle Service Bus) HTTP binding (for those of you trying to do away with SOAP and looking for simple GET and POST) Resequencer (for ordering out-of-order messages) WS Atomic Transactions (WS-AT) support (for propagation of transactions across heterogeneous environments) Check out the complete list of new features in PS2 for more (including links to the documentation for the above)! But maybe even more importantly we are also releasing Oracle Service Bus 11gR1 and BPM Suite 11gR1 at the same time – all on the same base platform (WebLogic Server 10.3.3)! (NB: it might take a while for all pages and caches to be updated with the new content so if you don’t find what you need today, try again soon!) Are you Systems Integrations and Independent Software Vendors ready to adopt and to deliver? Make sure that you become trained: Local training calendars Register for the SOA Partner Community & Webcast www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa What is your feedback? Who installed the software? please feel free to share your experience at http://twitter.com/soacommunity #soacommunity Technorati Tags: SOA partner community ACE Directoris SOA Suite PS2 BPM11g First feedback from our ACE Directors and key Partners: Now, these are great times to start the journey into BPM! Hajo Normann Reuse of components across the Oracle 11G Fusion Middleware stack, BPM just is one of the components plugging into the stack and reuses all other components. Mr. Leon Smiers With BPM11g, Oracle offers a very competitive product which will have a big effect on the IT market. Guido Schmutz We have real BPMN 2.0, which get's executed. No more transformation from business models to executable models - just press the run button... Torsten Winterberg Oracle BPM Suite 11g brings Out-of-box integration with WebCenter Suite and Oracle ADF development framework. Andrejus Baranovskis With the release of BPM Suite 11g, Oracle has defined new standards for Business Process platforms. Geoffroy de Lamalle With User Messaging Service you can let Soa Suite 11g do all your Messaging Edwin Biemond

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Extending Database-as-a-Service to Provision Databases with Application Data

- by Nilesh A

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Database as a Service (DBaaS) empowers Self Service/SSA Users to rapidly spawn databases on demand in cloud. The configuration and structure of provisioned databases depends on respective service template selected by Self Service user while requesting for database. In EM12c, the DBaaS Self Service/SSA Administrator has the option of hosting various service templates in service catalog and based on underlying DBCA templates.Many times provisioned databases require production scale data either for UAT, testing or development purpose and managing DBCA templates with data can be unwieldy. So, we need to populate the database using post deployment script option and without any additional work for the SSA Users. The SSA Administrator can automate this task in few easy steps. For details on how to setup DBaaS Self Service Portal refer to the DBaaS CookbookIn this article, I will list steps required to enable EM 12c DBaaS to provision databases with application data in two distinct ways using: 1) Data pump 2) Transportable tablespaces (TTS). The steps listed below are just examples of how to extend EM 12c DBaaS and you can even have your own method plugged in part of post deployment script option. Using Data Pump to populate databases These are the steps to be followed to implement extending DBaaS using Data Pump methodolgy: Production DBA should run data pump export on the production database and make the dump file available to all the servers participating in the database zone [sample shown in Fig.1] -- Full exportexpdp FULL=y DUMPFILE=data_pump_dir:dpfull1%U.dmp, data_pump_dir:dpfull2%U.dmp PARALLEL=4 LOGFILE=data_pump_dir:dpexpfull.log JOB_NAME=dpexpfull Figure-1: Full export of database using data pump Create a post deployment SQL script [sample shown in Fig. 2] and this script can either be uploaded into the software library by SSA Administrator or made available on a shared location accessible from servers where databases are likely to be provisioned Normal 0 -- Full importdeclare h1 NUMBER;begin-- Creating the directory object where source database dump is backed up. execute immediate 'create directory DEST_LOC as''/scratch/nagrawal/OracleHomes/oradata/INITCHNG/datafile''';-- Running import h1 := dbms_datapump.open (operation => 'IMPORT', job_mode => 'FULL', job_name => 'DB_IMPORT10'); dbms_datapump.set_parallel(handle => h1, degree => 1); dbms_datapump.add_file(handle => h1, filename => 'IMP_GRIDDB_FULL.LOG', directory => 'DATA_PUMP_DIR', filetype => 3); dbms_datapump.add_file(handle => h1, filename => 'EXP_GRIDDB_FULL_%U.DMP', directory => 'DEST_LOC', filetype => 1); dbms_datapump.start_job(handle => h1); dbms_datapump.detach(handle => h1);end;/ Figure-2: Importing using data pump pl/sql procedures Using DBCA, create a template for the production database – include all the init.ora parameters, tablespaces, datafiles & their sizes SSA Administrator should customize “Create Database Deployment Procedure” and provide DBCA template created in the previous step. In “Additional Configuration Options” step of Customize “Create Database Deployment Procedure” flow, provide the name of the SQL script in the Custom Script section and lock the input (shown in Fig. 3). Continue saving the deployment procedure. Figure-3: Using Custom script option for calling Import SQL Now, an SSA user can login to Self Service Portal and use the flow to provision a database that will also populate the data using the post deployment step. Using Transportable tablespaces to populate databases Copy of all user/application tablespaces will enable this method of populating databases. These are the required steps to extend DBaaS using transportable tablespaces: Production DBA needs to create a backup of tablespaces. Datafiles may need conversion [such as from Big Endian to Little Endian or vice versa] based on the platform of production and destination where DBaaS created the test database. Here is sample backup script shows how to find out if any conversion is required, describes the steps required to convert datafiles and backup tablespace. SSA Administrator should copy the database (tablespaces) backup datafiles and export dumps to the backup location accessible from the hosts participating in the database zone(s). Create a post deployment SQL script and this script can either be uploaded into the software library by SSA Administrator or made available on a shared location accessible from servers where databases are likely to be provisioned. Here is sample post deployment SQL script using transportable tablespaces. Using DBCA, create a template for the production database – all the init.ora parameters should be included. NOTE: DO NOT choose to bring tablespace data into this template as they will be created SSA Administrator should customize “Create Database Deployment Procedure” and provide DBCA template created in the previous step. In the “Additional Configuration Options” step of the flow, provide the name of the SQL script in the Custom Script section and lock the input. Continue saving the deployment procedure. Now, an SSA user can login to Self Service Portal and use the flow to provision a database that will also populate the data using the post deployment step. More Information: Database-as-a-Service on Exadata Cloud Podcast on Database as a Service using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Installation and Administration guide, Cloud Administration guide DBaaS Cookbook Screenwatch: Private Database Cloud: Set Up the Cloud Self-Service Portal Screenwatch: Private Database Cloud: Use the Cloud Self-Service Portal Stay Connected: Twitter | Face book | You Tube | Linked in | Newsletter

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Default value list for pipeline param in Powershell

- by fatcat1111

I have a Powershell script that reads values off of the pipeline: PARAM ( [Parameter(ValueFromPipeline = $true)] $s ) PROCESS { echo "* $s" } Works just fine: PS my.ps1 foo * foo I would like the script to have list of default values, as the most common usage will always use the same values and storing them in the default will be most convenient. I did the usual assignment: PARAM ( [Parameter(ValueFromPipeline = $true)] $s = 'bar' ) PROCESS { echo "* $s" } Again, works just fine: PS my.ps1 * bar PS my.ps1 foo * foo However when setting the default to be a list, I get back something entirely reasonable but not at all what I want: PARAM ( [Parameter(ValueFromPipeline = $true)] $s = @('bar', 'bat', 'boy') ) PROCESS { echo "* $s" } Result: PS my.ps1 * bar bat boy I expected: PS my.ps1 * bar * bat * boy How can I get one call in to the Process loop for each default value? (This is somewhat different than getting one call in to Process, and wrapping the current body of in a big foreach loop over $s).

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free switch : what is tls_port ?

- by kiruthika

Hi all, I am beginner to free switch.I have gone through the configuration file vars.xml in free switch. In this I have seen the following configurations. <X-PRE-PROCESS cmd="set" data="internal_auth_calls=true"/> <X-PRE-PROCESS cmd="set" data="internal_sip_port=5070"/> <X-PRE-PROCESS cmd="set" data="internal_tls_port=5071"/> <X-PRE-PROCESS cmd="set" data="internal_ssl_enable=false"/> <X-PRE-PROCESS cmd="set" data="internal_ssl_dir=$${base_dir}/conf/ssl"/> In the above I am having the doubt with tls_port. What is the use of tls_port .I have searched about this in net and I have read that tls protocol is used for secure data transfer in network. So please explain me about the communication in freeswitch. Thanks in advance.

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Oracle GoldenGate 12c - Leading Enterprise Replication

- by Doug Reid

Oracle GoldenGate 12c released on October 17th and includes several new cutting edge features that firmly establishes GoldenGate's leader position in the data replication space. In fact, this release more than doubles the performance of data delivery, supports Oracle's new multitenant database feature, it's more secure, has more options for high availability, and has made great strides to simplify the configuration and deployment of the product. Read through the press release if you haven't already and do not miss the quote from Cern's Eva Dafonte Perez, regarding Oracle GoldenGate 12c "….performs five times faster compared to previous GoldenGate versions and simplifies the management of a multi-tier environment" There are a variety of new and improved features in the Oracle GoldenGate 12c. Here are the highlights: Optimized for Oracle Database 12c - GoldenGate 12c is custom tailored to the unique capabilities of Oracle database 12c and out of the box GoldenGate 12c supports multitenant (pluggable database (PDB)) and non-consolidated deployments of Oracle Database 12c. The naming convention used by database 12c is now in three parts (PDB-name, schema-name, and object name). We have made changes to the GoldenGate capture process to support the new naming convention and streamlined the whole process so a single GoldenGate capture process is being used at the container level rather than at each individual PDB. By having the capture process at the container level resource usage and the number of processes are reduced. To view a conceptual architecture diagram click here. Integrated Delivery for the Oracle Database - Leveraging a lightweight streaming API built exclusively for Oracle GoldenGate 12c, this process distributes load, auto tunes the degree of parallelism, scales better, and delivers blinding rates of changed data delivery to the Oracle database. One of the goals for Oracle GoldenGate 12c was to reduce IT costs by simplifying the configuration and reduce the time to manage complex infrastructures. In previous versions of Oracle GoldenGate, customers would split transaction loads by grouping tables into multiple different delivery processes (click here to view the previous method). Each delivery process executed independently and without any interaction or knowledge of other delivery processes. This setup was complicated to configure and time consuming as the developer needed in-depth knowledge of the source and target schemas and the transaction profile. With GoldenGate 12c and Integrated Delivery we have made it easier to configure and faster to deploy. To view a conceptual architecture diagram of integrated delivery click here Coordinated Delivery for Non-Oracle Databases - Coordinated Delivery orchestrates high-speed apply processes and simplifies the configuration of GoldenGate for non-Oracle targets. In Oracle GoldenGate 12c a single delivery process is used with multiple threads (click here) and key events, such as primary key updates, event markers, DDL, etc, are coordinated between the various threads to insure that the transactions are applied in the same sequence as they were captured, all while delivery improved performance. Replication Between On-Premises and Cloud-Based systems. - The trend for business to utilize both on-premises and cloud-based systems is rising and businesses need to replicate data back and forth. GoldenGate 12c can be configured in a variety of ways to provide real-time replication when unrestricted or restricted (limited ports or HTTP tunneling) networks are between on-premises and cloud-based systems. Expanded Heterogeneity - It wouldn't be a GoldenGate release without new and improved platform support. Release 1 includes support for MySQL 5.6 and Sybase 15.7. Upcoming in the next release GoldenGate, support will be expanded for MS SQL Server, DB2, and Teradata. Tighter Security - Oracle GoldenGate 12c is integrated with the Oracle wallet to shield usernames and passwords using strong encryption and aliases. Customers accustomed to using the Oracle Wallet with other Oracle products will instantly be familiar with how to use this great new feature Expanded Oracle Application and Technology Support - GoldenGate can be used along with Oracle Coherence to enable real-time changed data feeds to the Coherence cache using Toplink and the Oracle GoldenGate JMS adapter. Plus, Oracle Advanced Customer Services (ACS) now offers a low downtime E-Business Suite platform and database migrations using GoldenGate as the enabling technology. Keep tuned for more blogs on the new features and the upcoming launch webcast where we will go into these new features in more detail. In the mean time make sure to read through our white paper "Oracle GoldenGate 12c Release 1 New Features Overview"

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Can a http server detect that a client has cancelled their request?

- by Nick Retallack

My web app must process and serve a lot of data to display certain pages. Sometimes, the user closes or refreshes a page while the server is still busy processing it. This means the server will continue to process data for several minutes only to send it to a client who is no longer listening. Is it possible to detect that the connection has been broken, and react to it? In this particular project, we're using Django and NginX, or Apache. I assumed this is possible because the Django development server appears to react to cancelled requests by printing Broken Pipe exceptions. I'd love to have it raise an exception that my application code could catch. Alternatively, I could register an unload event handler on the page in question, have it do a synchronous XHR requesting that the previous request from this user be cancelled, and do some kind of inter-process communication to make it so. Perhaps if the slower data processing were handed to another process that I could more easily identify and kill, without killing the responding process...

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Coping with infrastructure upgrades

- by Fatherjack

A common topic for questions on SQL Server forums is how to plan and implement upgrades to SQL Server. Moving from old to new hardware or moving from one version of SQL Server to another. There are other circumstances where upgrades of other systems affect SQL Server DBAs. For example, where I work at the moment there is an Microsoft Exchange (email) server upgrade in progress. It it being handled by a different team so I’m not wholly sure on the details but we are in a situation where there are currently 2 Exchange email servers – the old one and the new one. Users mail boxes are being transferred in a planned process but as we approach the old server being turned off we have to also make sure that our SQL Servers get updated to use the new SMTP server for all of the SQL Agent notifications, SSIS packages etc. My servers have a number of profiles so that various jobs can send emails on behalf of various departments and different systems. This means there are lots of places that the old server name needs to be replaced by the new one. Anyone who has set up DBMail and enjoyed the click-tastic odyssey of screens to create Profiles and Accounts and so on and so forth ought to seek some professional help in my opinion. It’s a nightmare of back and forth settings changes and it stinks. I wasn’t looking forward to heading into this mess of a UI and changing the old Exchange server name for the new one on all my SQL Instances for all of the accounts I have set up. So I did what any Englishmen with a shed would do, I decided to take it apart and see if I can fix it another way. I took a guess that we are going to be working in MSDB and Books OnLine was remarkably helpful and amongst a lot of information told me about a couple of procedures that can be used to interrogate DBMail settings. USE [msdb] -- It's where all the good stuff is kept GO EXEC dbo.sysmail_help_profile_sp; EXEC dbo.sysmail_help_account_sp; Both of these procedures take optional parameters with the same name – ID and Name. If you provide an ID or a name then the results you get back are for that specific Profile or Account. Otherwise you get details of all Profiles and Accounts on the server you are connected to. As you can see (click for a bigger image), the Account has the SMTP server information in the servername column. We want to change that value to NewSMTP.Contoso.com. Now it appears that the procedure we are looking at gets it’s data from the sysmail_account and sysmail_server tables, you can get the results the stored procedure provides if you run the code below. SELECT [account_id] , [name] , [description] , [email_address] , [display_name] , [replyto_address] , [last_mod_datetime] , [last_mod_user] FROM dbo.sysmail_account AS sa; SELECT [account_id] , [servertype] , [servername] , [port] , [username] , [credential_id] , [use_default_credentials] , [enable_ssl] , [flags] , [last_mod_datetime] , [last_mod_user] , [timeout] FROM dbo.sysmail_server AS sms Now, we have no real idea how these tables are linked and whether making an update direct to one or other of them is going to do what we want or whether it will entirely cripple our ability to send email from SQL Server so we wont touch those tables with any UPDATE TSQL. So, back to Books OnLine then and we find sysmail_update_account_sp. It’s exactly what we need. The examples in BOL take the form (as below) of having every parameter explicitly defined. Not wanting to totally obliterate the existing values by not passing values in all of the parameters I set to writing some code to gather the existing data from the tables and re-write the SMTP server name and then execute the resulting TSQL. IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#sysmailprofiles') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE #sysmailprofiles GO CREATE TABLE #sysmailprofiles ( account_id INT , [name] VARCHAR(50) , [description] VARCHAR(500) , email_address VARCHAR(500) , display_name VARCHAR(500) , replyto_address VARCHAR(500) , servertype VARCHAR(10) , servername VARCHAR(100) , port INT , username VARCHAR(100) , use_default_credentials VARCHAR(1) , ENABLE_ssl VARCHAR(1) ) INSERT [#sysmailprofiles] ( [account_id] , [name] , [description] , [email_address] , [display_name] , [replyto_address] , [servertype] , [servername] , [port] , [username] , [use_default_credentials] , [ENABLE_ssl] ) EXEC [dbo].[sysmail_help_account_sp] DECLARE @TSQL NVARCHAR(1000) SELECT TOP 1 @TSQL = 'EXEC [dbo].[sysmail_update_account_sp] @account_id = ' + CAST([s].[account_id] AS VARCHAR(20)) + ', @account_name = ''' + [s].[name] + '''' + ', @email_address = N''' + [s].[email_address] + '''' + ', @display_name = N''' + [s].[display_name] + '''' + ', @replyto_address = N''' + s.replyto_address + '''' + ', @description = N''' + [s].[description] + '''' + ', @mailserver_name = ''NEWSMTP.contoso.com''' + +', @mailserver_type = ' + [s].[servertype] + ', @port = ' + CAST([s].[port] AS VARCHAR(20)) + ', @username = ' + COALESCE([s].[username], '''''') + ', @use_default_credentials =' + CAST(s.[use_default_credentials] AS VARCHAR(1)) + ', @enable_ssl =' + [s].[ENABLE_ssl] FROM [#sysmailprofiles] AS s WHERE [s].[servername] = 'SMTP.Contoso.com' SELECT @tsql EXEC [sys].[sp_executesql] @tsql This worked well for me and testing the email function EXEC dbo.sp_send_dbmail afterwards showed that the settings were indeed using our new Exchange server. It was only later in writing this blog that I tried running the sysmail_update_account_sp procedure with only the SMTP server name parameter value specified. Despite what Books OnLine might intimate, you can do this and only the values for parameters specified get changed. If a parameter is not specified in the execution of the procedure then the values remain unchanged. This renders most of the above script unnecessary as I could have simply specified the account_id that I want to amend and the new value for the parameter I want to update. EXEC sysmail_update_account_sp @account_id = 1, @mailserver_name = 'NEWSMTP.Contoso.com' This wasn’t going to be the main reason for this post, it was meant to describe how to capture values from a stored procedure and use them in dynamic TSQL but instead we are here and (re)learning the fact that Books Online is a little flawed in places. It is a fantastic resource for anyone working with SQL Server but the reader must adopt an enquiring frame of mind and use a little curiosity to try simple variations on examples to fully understand the code you are working with. I think the author(s) of this part of Books OnLine missed an opportunity to include a third example that had fewer than all parameters specified to give a lead to this method existing.

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Must all Concurrent Data Store (CDB) locks be explicitly released when closing a Berkeley DB?

- by Steve Emmerson

I have an application that comprises multiple processes each accessing a single Berkeley DB Concurrent Data Store (CDB) database. Each process is single-threaded and does no explicit locking of the database. When each process terminates normally, it calls DB-close() and DB_ENV-close(). When all processes have terminated, there should be no locks on the database. Episodically, however, the database behaves as if some process was holding a write-lock on it even though all processes have terminated normally. Does each process need to explicitly release all locks before calling DB_ENV-close()? If so, how does the process obtain the "locker" parameter for the call to DB_ENV-loc_vec()?

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7 Steps To Cut Recruiting Costs & Drive Exceptional Business Results

- by Oracle Accelerate for Midsize Companies

By Steve Viarengo, Vice President Product Management, Oracle Taleo Cloud Services Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In good times, trimming operational costs is an ongoing goal. In tough times, it’s a necessity. In both good times and bad, however, recruiting occurs. Growth increases headcount in good times, and opportunistic or replacement hiring occurs in slow business cycles. By employing creative recruiting strategies in tandem with the latest technology developments, you can reduce recruiting costs while driving exceptional business results. Here are some critical areas to focus on. 1. Target Direct Cost Savings Total recruiting process expenses are the sum of external costs plus internal labor costs. Most organizations can reduce recruiting expenses with direct cost savings. While additional savings on indirect costs can be realized from process improvement and efficiency gains, there are direct cost savings and benefits readily available in three broad areas: sourcing, assessments, and green recruiting. 2. Sourcing: Reduce Agency Costs Agency search firm fees can amount to 35 percent of a new employee’s annual base salary. Typically taken from the hiring department budget, these fees may not be visible to HR. By relying on internal mobility programs, referrals, candidate pipelines, and corporate career Websites, organizations can reduce or eliminate this agency spend. And when you do have to pay third-party agency fees, you can optimize the value you receive by collaborating with agencies to identify referred candidates, ensure access to candidate data and history, and receive automatic notifications and correspondence. 3. Sourcing: Reduce Advertising Costs You can realize significant cost reductions by placing all job positions on your corporate career Website. This will allow you to reap a substantial number of candidates at minimal cost compared to job boards and other sourcing options. 4. Sourcing: Internal Talent Pool Internal talent pools provide a way to reduce sourcing and advertising costs while delivering improved productivity and retention. Internal redeployment reduces costs and ramp-up time while increasing retention and employee satisfaction. 5. Sourcing: External Talent Pool Strategic recruiting requires identifying and matching people with a given set of skills to a particular job while efficiently allocating sourcing expenditures. By using an e-recruiting system (which drives external talent pool management) with a candidate relationship database, you can automate prescreening and candidate matching while communicating with targeted candidates. Candidate relationship management can lower sourcing costs by marketing new job opportunities to candidates sourced in the past. By mining the talent pool in this fashion, you eliminate the need to source a new pool of candidates for each new requisition. Managing and mining the corporate candidate database can reduce the sourcing cost per candidate by as much as 50 percent. 6. Assessments: Reduce Turnover Costs By taking advantage of assessments during the recruitment process, you can achieve a range of benefits, including better productivity, superior candidate performance, and lower turnover (providing considerable savings). Assessments also save recruiter and hiring manager time by focusing on a short list of qualified candidates. Hired for fit, such candidates tend to stay with the organization and produce quality work—ultimately driving revenue. 7. Green Recruiting: Reduce Paper and Processing Costs You can reduce recruiting costs by automating the process—and making it green. A paperless process informs candidates that you’re dedicated to green recruiting. It also leads to direct cost savings. E-recruiting reduces energy use and pollution associated with manufacturing, transporting, and recycling paper products. And process automation saves energy in mailing, storage, handling, filing, and reporting tasks. Direct cost savings come from reduced paperwork related to résumés, advertising, and onboarding. Improving the recruiting process through sourcing, assessments, and green recruiting not only saves costs. It also positions the company to improve the talent base during the recession while retaining the ability to grow appropriately in recovery. /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";}

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