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  • With 2 superposed cameras at different depths and switching their culling masks between layers to implement object-selective antialising:

    - by user36845
    We superposed two cameras, one of which uses AA as post-processing effect (AA filtering is cancelled). The camera with the AA effect has depth 0 and the camera with no effect has depth 1 as can be seen in the 5th and 6th Picture. The objects seen on the left are in layer 1 and the ones on the right are in layer 2. We then wrote a script that switches the culling masks of the cameras between the two layers at the push of buttons 1 and 2 respectively, and accomplishes object-selective antialiasing as seen in the first the three pictures. (The way two cameras separately switch culling masks between layers is illustrated in pictures 7,8 & 9.) HOWEVER, after making the environment 3D (see pictures 1-4), by parenting the 2 cameras under First-Person Controller, we started moving around in the environment and stumbled upon a big issue: When we look at the objects from such an angle as in the 4th Picture and we want to apply antialiasing to the first object (object on the left) which stands closer to our cameras now, the culling mask of 1st camera which is at depth 0, has to be switched to that object’s layer while the second object has to be in the culling mask of the 2nd camera at depth 1. And since the two image outputs of two superposed cameras are laid on top of one another; we obtain the erroneous/unrealistic result of the object farther in the back appearing closer to the camera than the front object (see 4th Picture). We already tried switching depths of cameras so that the 1st camera –with AA- now has depth 1 and the second has depth 0; BUT the camera with the AA effect Works in such a way that it applies the AA effect to its full view. So; the camera with the AA effect always has to remain at the lowest depth and the layer of the object to be antialiased has to be then assigned to the culling mask of the AA camera; otherwise all objects in the AA camera’s view (the two cubes in our case) become antialised, which we don’t want. So; how can we resolve this? The pictures are below and in the comments since each post can have 2 pics: Pic 1. No button is pushed: Both objects seem aliased. Pic 2. Button 1 is pushed: Left (1st) object is antialiased. 2nd object remains aliased. Pic 3. Button 2 is pushed: Right (2nd) object is antialiased. 1st object remains aliased. Pic 4. The problematic result in 3D, when using two superposed cameras with different depths Pic 5. Camera 1’s properties can be seen: using AA post-processing and its depth is 0 Pic 6. Camera 2’s properties can be seen: NOT using AA post-processing and its depth is 1 Pic 7. When no button is pushed, both objects are in the culling mask of Camera 2 and are aliased Pic 8. When pushed 1, camera 1 (bottom) shows the 1st object and camera 2 (top) shows the 2nd Pic 9. When pushed 2, camera 1 (bottom) shows the 2nd object and camera 2 (top) shows the 1st

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  • Replication Services as ETL extraction tool

    - by jorg
    In my last blog post I explained the principles of Replication Services and the possibilities it offers in a BI environment. One of the possibilities I described was the use of snapshot replication as an ETL extraction tool: “Snapshot Replication can also be useful in BI environments, if you don’t need a near real-time copy of the database, you can choose to use this form of replication. Next to an alternative for Transactional Replication it can be used to stage data so it can be transformed and moved into the data warehousing environment afterwards. In many solutions I have seen developers create multiple SSIS packages that simply copies data from one or more source systems to a staging database that figures as source for the ETL process. The creation of these packages takes a lot of (boring) time, while Replication Services can do the same in minutes. It is possible to filter out columns and/or records and it can even apply schema changes automatically so I think it offers enough features here. I don’t know how the performance will be and if it really works as good for this purpose as I expect, but I want to try this out soon!” Well I have tried it out and I must say it worked well. I was able to let replication services do work in a fraction of the time it would cost me to do the same in SSIS. What I did was the following: Configure snapshot replication for some Adventure Works tables, this was quite simple and straightforward. Create an SSIS package that executes the snapshot replication on demand and waits for its completion. This is something that you can’t do with out of the box functionality. While configuring the snapshot replication two SQL Agent Jobs are created, one for the creation of the snapshot and one for the distribution of the snapshot. Unfortunately these jobs are  asynchronous which means that if you execute them they immediately report back if the job started successfully or not, they do not wait for completion and report its result afterwards. So I had to create an SSIS package that executes the jobs and waits for their completion before the rest of the ETL process continues. Fortunately I was able to create the SSIS package with the desired functionality. I have made a step-by-step guide that will help you configure the snapshot replication and I have uploaded the SSIS package you need to execute it. Configure snapshot replication   The first step is to create a publication on the database you want to replicate. Connect to SQL Server Management Studio and right-click Replication, choose for New.. Publication…   The New Publication Wizard appears, click Next Choose your “source” database and click Next Choose Snapshot publication and click Next   You can now select tables and other objects that you want to publish Expand Tables and select the tables that are needed in your ETL process In the next screen you can add filters on the selected tables which can be very useful. Think about selecting only the last x days of data for example. Its possible to filter out rows and/or columns. In this example I did not apply any filters. Schedule the Snapshot Agent to run at a desired time, by doing this a SQL Agent Job is created which we need to execute from a SSIS package later on. Next you need to set the Security Settings for the Snapshot Agent. Click on the Security Settings button.   In this example I ran the Agent under the SQL Server Agent service account. This is not recommended as a security best practice. Fortunately there is an excellent article on TechNet which tells you exactly how to set up the security for replication services. Read it here and make sure you follow the guidelines!   On the next screen choose to create the publication at the end of the wizard Give the publication a name (SnapshotTest) and complete the wizard   The publication is created and the articles (tables in this case) are added Now the publication is created successfully its time to create a new subscription for this publication.   Expand the Replication folder in SSMS and right click Local Subscriptions, choose New Subscriptions   The New Subscription Wizard appears   Select the publisher on which you just created your publication and select the database and publication (SnapshotTest)   You can now choose where the Distribution Agent should run. If it runs at the distributor (push subscriptions) it causes extra processing overhead. If you use a separate server for your ETL process and databases choose to run each agent at its subscriber (pull subscriptions) to reduce the processing overhead at the distributor. Of course we need a database for the subscription and fortunately the Wizard can create it for you. Choose for New database   Give the database the desired name, set the desired options and click OK You can now add multiple SQL Server Subscribers which is not necessary in this case but can be very useful.   You now need to set the security settings for the Distribution Agent. Click on the …. button Again, in this example I ran the Agent under the SQL Server Agent service account. Read the security best practices here   Click Next   Make sure you create a synchronization job schedule again. This job is also necessary in the SSIS package later on. Initialize the subscription at first synchronization Select the first box to create the subscription when finishing this wizard Complete the wizard by clicking Finish The subscription will be created In SSMS you see a new database is created, the subscriber. There are no tables or other objects in the database available yet because the replication jobs did not ran yet. Now expand the SQL Server Agent, go to Jobs and search for the job that creates the snapshot:   Rename this job to “CreateSnapshot” Now search for the job that distributes the snapshot:   Rename this job to “DistributeSnapshot” Create an SSIS package that executes the snapshot replication We now need an SSIS package that will take care of the execution of both jobs. The CreateSnapshot job needs to execute and finish before the DistributeSnapshot job runs. After the DistributeSnapshot job has started the package needs to wait until its finished before the package execution finishes. The Execute SQL Server Agent Job Task is designed to execute SQL Agent Jobs from SSIS. Unfortunately this SSIS task only executes the job and reports back if the job started succesfully or not, it does not report if the job actually completed with success or failure. This is because these jobs are asynchronous. The SSIS package I’ve created does the following: It runs the CreateSnapshot job It checks every 5 seconds if the job is completed with a for loop When the CreateSnapshot job is completed it starts the DistributeSnapshot job And again it waits until the snapshot is delivered before the package will finish successfully Quite simple and the package is ready to use as standalone extract mechanism. After executing the package the replicated tables are added to the subscriber database and are filled with data:   Download the SSIS package here (SSIS 2008) Conclusion In this example I only replicated 5 tables, I could create a SSIS package that does the same in approximately the same amount of time. But if I replicated all the 70+ AdventureWorks tables I would save a lot of time and boring work! With replication services you also benefit from the feature that schema changes are applied automatically which means your entire extract phase wont break. Because a snapshot is created using the bcp utility (bulk copy) it’s also quite fast, so the performance will be quite good. Disadvantages of using snapshot replication as extraction tool is the limitation on source systems. You can only choose SQL Server or Oracle databases to act as a publisher. So if you plan to build an extract phase for your ETL process that will invoke a lot of tables think about replication services, it would save you a lot of time and thanks to the Extract SSIS package I’ve created you can perfectly fit it in your usual SSIS ETL process.

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  • Setting an XAML Window always on top (but no TopMost property)

    - by Brian Scherady
    I am developing an application based on OptiTrack SDK (from NaturalPoint). I need to run the application window as "Always on Top". The window is designed in XAML and is controled in the class "CameraView" but it does not seem to include a "TopMost" property or equivalent. Attached are the code of "CameraView.xaml.cs" and the code of "CameraView.xaml" that are part of OptiTrack SDK (NaturalPoint) called "Single_Camera_CSharp_.NET_3.0". One could expect the class CameraView to contain properties or members to set the position of the window on the screen or to set it to TopMost but as far as searched I found nothing. I wonder what I should do. Thank you, Brian ================ "CameraView.xaml.cs" using System; using System.IO; using System.Net; using System.Windows; using System.Windows.Controls; using System.Windows.Data; using System.Windows.Media; using System.Windows.Media.Animation; using System.Windows.Navigation; using System.Drawing.Imaging; using System.Drawing.Drawing2D; using System.Windows.Threading; namespace TestProject { public partial class CameraView { private const int NP_OPTION_OBJECT_COLOR_OPTION = 3; private const int NP_OPTION_VIDEO_TYPE = 48; private const int NP_OPTION_NUMERIC_DISPLAY_ON = 71; private const int NP_OPTION_NUMERIC_DISPLAY_OFF = 72; private const int NP_OPTION_FETCH_RLE = 73; private const int NP_OPTION_FETCH_GRAYSCALE = 74; private const int NP_OPTION_FRAME_DECIMATION = 52; private const int NP_OPTION_INTENSITY = 50; private const int NP_OPTION_SEND_EMPTY_FRAMES = 41; private const int NP_OPTION_THRESHOLD = 5; private const int NP_OPTION_EXPOSURE = 46; private const int NP_OPTION_SEND_FRAME_MASK = 73; private const int NP_OPTION_TEXT_OVERLAY_OPTION = 74; // public delegate void OnCameraViewCreate(CameraView camera); // public static OnCameraViewCreate onCameraViewCreate; private System.Drawing.Bitmap raw = new System.Drawing.Bitmap(353, 288, System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb); private int mFrameCounter; private int mDisplayCounter; private DispatcherTimer timer1 = new DispatcherTimer(); private bool mVideoFrameAvailable = false; private int mNumeric = -1; private bool mGreyscale = false; private bool mOverlay = true; public CameraView() { this.InitializeComponent(); timer1.Interval = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 0, 10); timer1.Tick += new EventHandler(timer1_Tick); } public int Numeric { get { return mNumeric; } set { mNumeric = value % 100; if (mNumeric = 0) { if (Camera != null) Camera.SetOption(NP_OPTION_NUMERIC_DISPLAY_ON, value % 100); } } } private bool CameraRunning = false; private OptiTrack.NPCamera mCamera; public OptiTrack.NPCamera Camera { get { return mCamera; } set { if (mCamera == value) return; //== Don't do anything if you're assigning the same camera == if (mCamera != null) { //== Shut the selected camera down ==<< if (CameraRunning) { CameraRunning = false; mCamera.Stop(); mCamera.FrameAvailable -= FrameAvailable; } } mCamera = value; if (mCamera == null) { mNumeric = -1; } else { serialLabel.Content = "Camera "+mCamera.SerialNumber.ToString(); //mNumeric.ToString(); } } } private void FrameAvailable(OptiTrack.NPCamera Camera) { mFrameCounter++; try { OptiTrack.NPCameraFrame frame = Camera.GetFrame(0); int id = frame.Id; if (CameraRunning) { GetFrameData(Camera, frame); } frame.Free(); } catch (Exception) { int r = 0; r++; } } private void GetFrameData(OptiTrack.NPCamera camera, OptiTrack.NPCameraFrame frame) { BitmapData bmData = raw.LockBits(new System.Drawing.Rectangle(0, 0, raw.Width, raw.Height), ImageLockMode.ReadWrite, System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb); int stride = bmData.Stride; System.IntPtr bufferPtr = bmData.Scan0; unsafe { byte* buffer = (byte*)(void*)bufferPtr; camera.GetFrameImage(frame, bmData.Width, bmData.Height, bmData.Stride, 32, ref buffer[0]); } raw.UnlockBits(bmData); mVideoFrameAvailable = true; } private void timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (CameraRunning && mVideoFrameAvailable) { mVideoFrameAvailable = false; cameraImage.Source = Img(raw); mDisplayCounter++; } } private System.Windows.Media.ImageSource Img(System.Drawing.Bitmap img) { System.Drawing.Imaging.BitmapData bmData = img.LockBits(new System.Drawing.Rectangle(0, 0, img.Width, img.Height), System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageLockMode.ReadWrite, System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format32bppPArgb); System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapSource bitmap = System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapSource.Create( img.Width, img.Height, 96, 96, PixelFormats.Bgra32, System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapPalettes.WebPalette, bmData.Scan0, bmData.Stride * bmData.Height, bmData.Stride); img.UnlockBits(bmData); return bitmap; } private void startStopButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { if (CameraRunning) StopCamera(); else StartCamera(); } public void StartCamera() { if (Camera != null) { mFrameCounter = 0; mDisplayCounter = 0; Camera.FrameAvailable += FrameAvailable; Camera.SetOption(NP_OPTION_VIDEO_TYPE, 0); Camera.SetOption(NP_OPTION_FRAME_DECIMATION, 1); Camera.SetOption(NP_OPTION_INTENSITY, 0); Camera.SetOption(NP_OPTION_EXPOSURE, 10); Camera.SetOption(NP_OPTION_THRESHOLD, 50); Camera.SetOption(NP_OPTION_OBJECT_COLOR_OPTION, 0); SetOverlayOption(); SetGreyscaleOption(); timer1.Start(); Camera.Start(); CameraRunning = true; this.Numeric = mNumeric; startStopButton.Content = "Stop Camera"; } } private void SetGreyscaleOption() { if(mGreyscale) Camera.SetOption(NP_OPTION_VIDEO_TYPE, 1); else Camera.SetOption(NP_OPTION_VIDEO_TYPE, 0); } private void SetOverlayOption() { if(mOverlay) Camera.SetOption(NP_OPTION_TEXT_OVERLAY_OPTION, 255); else Camera.SetOption(NP_OPTION_TEXT_OVERLAY_OPTION, 0); } public void StopCamera() { if (Camera != null) { Camera.Stop(); timer1.Stop(); CameraRunning = false; Camera.FrameAvailable -= FrameAvailable; Camera.SetOption(NP_OPTION_NUMERIC_DISPLAY_OFF, 0); startStopButton.Content = "Start Camera"; } } private void greyscaleButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { if(mGreyscale) mGreyscale = false; else mGreyscale = true; SetGreyscaleOption(); } private void OverlayButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { if(mOverlay) mOverlay = false; else mOverlay = true; SetOverlayOption(); } private void exposureSlider_ValueChanged(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { if (mCamera!=null) { mCamera.SetOption(NP_OPTION_EXPOSURE, (int) this.exposureSlider.Value); } } private void thresholdSlider_ValueChanged(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { if (mCamera != null) { mCamera.SetOption(NP_OPTION_THRESHOLD, (int)this.thresholdSlider.Value); } } private void optionsButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { if (!propertyPanel.IsVisible) propertyPanel.Visibility = Visibility.Visible; else propertyPanel.Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed; } } } ================ "CameraView.xaml"

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  • Online email tracing tool

    - by Clint
    About 2 years ago I came across an online tool that would allow you to append something to the end of a destination email address. When the email was opened, the tool would email you their geographical location. Does anyone know anything about this tool? If it still exists?

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  • How to Use WinMerge as the Diff tool for Mercurial

    - by quanticle
    I'm using the Mercurial distributed version control system, and I'm wondering how I can configure it to use WinMerge instead of its own internal diff tool. I've already got WinMerge as the merge tool, but I want Mercurial to use WinMerge when I type: hg diff Is there any way of doing that, or am I stuck with Mercurial's internal diff tool?

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  • recover lost files from sd card(digital camera)

    - by user23950
    How do I recover lost data from sd card? I already tried using: Photorec Recuva Tune up undelete Pareto data recovery chkdsk x: /F from here: http://superuser.com/questions/128259/how-to-recover-images-from-memory-card But none of them worked. I think I've only lost the data yesterday. And I haven't used the camera. So there's a possibility that it is still there. But the question is how I can recover the images? I think its lost when I tried to connect the digicam with the computer. But the camera froze so I tried to remove the batteries then try again.

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  • Media file segmenter like tool for linux

    - by Raja
    Hello everyone I'm looking for a tool for linux which can segment a video file into multiple small .ts files. I know one for Mac OS X called media file segmenter which is a simple command line tool. I really appreciate if anyone can point me to an equivalent linux tool. I don't know if these types of non-programming questions are allowed on this site. my apologies for that.

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  • Rsync like windows backup tool

    - by Halfgaar
    Hi, I need to backup some windows machines and have been unable to find the proper tool. What I need is a tool that does efficient copying of changed files to a windows network location, like Rsync does. In turn, the server will then back that up using rdiff-backup, a tool which does very clever incremental backups. Right now I'm using windows' 7 included backup feature, but I really don't get that. It's too much off-topic, but it doesn't suffice (seems buggy as well). I looked into Amanda, but as soon as it wanted to install MySQL, I aborted. I also tried Deltacopy, but unfortunately, I don't remember what the problem with that was... Any advice for an rsync like tool that just does daily syncs to a network location?

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  • Freeware (preferably open-source) tool for creating multi-file spanning archives as a self merging SFX

    - by Lockszmith
    I have a large file I want to transfer using either Internet storage hosting, DVD-Rs or USB storage, which sometimes is limited to FAT file-systems (for example: mobile phones) What I'm basically looking for is a tool that create multiple files/volumes (less than 2GB each - FAT's file size limit) which are packed with a self-extracting executable. Currently the only tool I found doing this is WinRAR, but that's shareware, and not free. Is there any Free, preferably Open-Source tool that does that? Thank in advance

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  • Online modelling tool for server desing / architecture

    - by 2ge
    I am looking for some online (the best is free) tool for designing our servers. We use almost 10 servers now, and it becoming mess, to remember, where, what service is running. So, I'd like to have some online modeling tool, where I can set up things like: - server host - server hw parameters - server os - server services with running programs I am looking for server designing tool like online SQL modeling on http://ondras.zarovi.cz/sql/demo/?keyword=default (WWW SQL designer) Any ideas ?

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  • Offline web font optimization tool

    - by avok00
    I have a few web fonts on my web site that I want to reduce in size. I tried http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator with very good results, but I need an offline professional tool to rely on. Can somebody recommend such a tool? I am not a specialist font creator, so I need something like a wizard that can guide me through font optimization. Any suggestion is much appretiated! EDIT: To make myself more clear, I need a font subsetting tool

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  • I need a tool that can organize my time and manage my tasks

    - by wael34218
    Ok so I am really swamped at work, and need a tool that keep tracks of what I did and what I didn't. I need the tool to do the following: I need that tool to set priorities on my tasks. Some tasks do have subtasks inside of it, so I need to keep track of those as well. Pending status, some tasks may require that I need to wait for other parties to finish their work. Intuitive and easy to use. Run on Mac OS X

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  • Free tool to automatically deskew and crop PDF made up of scanned pages [closed]

    - by Pietro M.
    I have several PDFs made up of book pages' scans. The scans are made from two pages at a time and some of these scans are skewed, making text appear slightly tilted. I'm looking for a tool that could allow me to do an automatic optimization by deskewing the scans without losing readability. I've found the GPL software briss to crop the scans in order to have a 1:1 page ratio instead of 2:1, but I don't have any tool to deskew the pages. I stumbled upon unpaper, another open source tool that seems perfect for what I want to do, but that tool is Linux only and it doesn't work on PDF files directly. Any hint is appreciated. Thank you.

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  • Rsync like windows backup tool

    - by Halfgaar
    I need to backup some windows machines and have been unable to find the proper tool. What I need is a tool that does efficient copying of changed files to a windows network location, like Rsync does. In turn, the server will then back that up using rdiff-backup, a tool which does very clever incremental backups. Right now I'm using windows' 7 included backup feature, but I really don't get that. It's too much off-topic, but it doesn't suffice (seems buggy as well). I looked into Amanda, but as soon as it wanted to install MySQL, I aborted. I also tried Deltacopy, but unfortunately, I don't remember what the problem with that was... Any advice for an rsync like tool that just does daily syncs to a network location?

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  • Tool to collect stacktraces in server logs

    - by hstoerr
    Is there a tool collect and count all different stacktraces in a bunch of server logfiles? Sometimes you have just too many stacktraces that repeat over and over. So it can be difficult to spot different problems between the stacktraces. So the idea would be to have a tool that looks for stacktraces, compares them and counts them. It would be nice if the tool could ignore minor differences (e.g. $Proxy150.dispatchCalls() versus $Proxy25.dispatchCalls() ).

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  • New SSIS tool on Codeplex – SSIS Log Analyzer

    I stumbled across a new SSIS tool on Codeplex today, the SSIS Log Analyzer which was only released a few days ago. Whilst it is a beta release and currently only supports 2005 (2008 is promised) it looks quite interesting. It seems to be a fancy log viewer, but with some clever features and a nice looking front-end. I’ve only read the documentation so far, but it has graphs and a debug view that shows your package with the colour animations similar to when debugging in BIDS, and everyone knows, the way the pretty colours and numbers change is the best bit! I’ll quote some of the features for you here and then let you make your own mind up, is it useful in the real world? Option to analyze the logs manually by applying row and column filters over the log data or by using queries to specify more complex criterions. Automated Performance Analysis which provides a quick graphical look on which tasks spent most time during package execution. Rerun (debug) the entire sequence of events which happened during package execution showing the flow of control in graphical form, changes in runtime values for each task like execution duration etc. Support for Auto Analyzers to automatically find out issues and provide suggestions for problems which can be figured out with the help of SSIS logs and/or package. Option to analyze just log file or log and package together. Provides a lightweight environment to have a quick look at the package. Opening it in BIDS takes some time as being an authoring environment it does all sorts of validations resulting in some delay. See http://ssisloganalyzer.codeplex.com/  for more details.

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  • New SSIS tool on Codeplex – SSIS Log Analyzer

    I stumbled across a new SSIS tool on Codeplex today, the SSIS Log Analyzer which was only released a few days ago. Whilst it is a beta release and currently only supports 2005 (2008 is promised) it looks quite interesting. It seems to be a fancy log viewer, but with some clever features and a nice looking front-end. I’ve only read the documentation so far, but it has graphs and a debug view that shows your package with the colour animations similar to when debugging in BIDS, and everyone knows, the way the pretty colours and numbers change is the best bit! I’ll quote some of the features for you here and then let you make your own mind up, is it useful in the real world? Option to analyze the logs manually by applying row and column filters over the log data or by using queries to specify more complex criterions. Automated Performance Analysis which provides a quick graphical look on which tasks spent most time during package execution. Rerun (debug) the entire sequence of events which happened during package execution showing the flow of control in graphical form, changes in runtime values for each task like execution duration etc. Support for Auto Analyzers to automatically find out issues and provide suggestions for problems which can be figured out with the help of SSIS logs and/or package. Option to analyze just log file or log and package together. Provides a lightweight environment to have a quick look at the package. Opening it in BIDS takes some time as being an authoring environment it does all sorts of validations resulting in some delay. See http://ssisloganalyzer.codeplex.com/  for more details.

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  • Open Source WPF UML Design tool

    - by oazabir
    PlantUmlEditor is my new free open source UML designer project built using WPF and .NET 3.5. If you have used plantuml before, you know that you can quickly create sophisitcated UML diagrams without struggling with a designer. Especially those who use Visio to draw UML diagrams (God forbid!), you will be at heaven. This is a super fast way to get your diagrams up and ready for show. You can *write* UML diagrams in plain English, following a simple syntax and get diagrams generated on-the-fly. This editor really saves time designing UML diagrams. I have to produce quick diagrams to convey ideas quickly to Architects, Designers and Developers everyday. So, I use this tool to write some quick diagrams at the speed of coding, and the diagrams get generated on the fly. Instead of writing a long mail explaining some complex operation or some business process in English, I can quickly write it in the editor in almost plain English, and get a nice looking activity/sequence diagram generated instantly. Making major changes is also as easy as doing search-replace and copy-pasting blocks here and there. You don't get such agility in any conventional mouse-based UML designers. I have submited a full codeproject article to give you a detail walkthrough how I have built this. Please read this article and vote for me if you like it. PlantUML Editor: A fast and simple UML editor using WPF http://www.codeproject.com/KB/smart/plantumleditor.aspx You can download the project from here: http://code.google.com/p/plantumleditor/

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  • What You Said: Favorite Web Clipping Tool

    - by Jason Fitzpatrick
    Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite tools for clipping articles from the web for storage and later reading. You responded and now we’re back to highlight some reader favorites. At the top of the heap, by a wide margin, was Evernote—the ubiquitous web-based notebook that makes it super simple to sync and share your notes. It has a snappy clipping tool built right in, and readers were quite fond of the wide ranging tools and integrations supported by Evernote. Laurel writes: Evernote! That way I always have that info handy on all my computers & phone, at work, home, etc. I can make notes to it and it is always available! It’s the best all around app I’ve found for this use! :) Richard highlights how Evernote’s desktop app has replaced OneNote (another popular reader choice): When in Windows – Evernote desktop 4.1 – it does everything that OneNote ever did for me. How to Make the Kindle Fire Silk Browser *Actually* Fast! Amazon’s New Kindle Fire Tablet: the How-To Geek Review HTG Explains: How Hackers Take Over Web Sites with SQL Injection / DDoS

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  • ORAchk 2.2.5 – New Tool Features & New Health Checks for the Oracle Stack

    - by SamanthaF-Oracle
    ORAchk version 2.2.5 is now available for download, new features in 2.2.5: Running checks for multiple databases in parallel Ability to schedule multiple automated runs via ORAchk daemon New "scratch area" for ORAchk temporary files moved from /tmp to a configurable $HOME directory location System health score calculation now ignores skipped checks Checks the health of pluggable databases using OS authentication New report section to report top 10 time consuming checks to be used for optimizing runtime in the future More readable report output for clusterwide checks Includes over 50 new Health Checks for the Oracle Stack Provides a single dashboard to view collections across your entire enterprise using the Collection Manager, now pre-bundled Expands coverage of pre and post upgrade checks to include standalone databases, with new profile options to run only these checks Expands to additional product areas in E-Business Suite of Workflow & Oracle Purchasing and in Enterprise Manager Cloud Control ORAchk has replaced the popular RACcheck tool, extending the coverage based on prioritization of top issues reported by users, to proactively scan for known problems within the area of: Oracle Database Standalone Database Grid Infrastructure & RAC Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) Validation Upgrade Readiness Validation Golden Gate Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Repository E-Business Suite Oracle Payables (R12 only) Oracle Workflow Oracle Purchasing (R12 only) Oracle Sun Systems Oracle Solaris ORAchk features: Proactively scans for the most impactful problems across the various layers of your stack Streamlines how to investigate and analyze which known issues present a risk to you Executes lightweight checks in your environment, providing immediate results with no configuration data sent to Oracle Local reporting capability showing specific problems and their resolutions Ability to configure email notifications when problems are detected Provides a single dashboard to view collections across your entire enterprise using the Collection Manager ORAchk will expand in the future with high impact checks in existing and additional product areas. If you have particular checks or product areas you would like to see covered, please post suggestions in the ORAchk subspace in My Oracle Support Community. For more details about ORAchk see Document 1268927.2

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