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Your thoughts on Best Practices for Scientific Computing?

- by John Smith

A recent paper by Wilson et al (2014) pointed out 24 Best Practices for scientific programming. It's worth to have a look. I would like to hear opinions about these points from experienced programmers in scientific data analysis. Do you think these advices are helpful and practical? Or are they good only in an ideal world? Wilson G, Aruliah DA, Brown CT, Chue Hong NP, Davis M, Guy RT, Haddock SHD, Huff KD, Mitchell IM, Plumbley MD, Waugh B, White EP, Wilson P (2014) Best Practices for Scientific Computing. PLoS Biol 12:e1001745. http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001745 Box 1. Summary of Best Practices Write programs for people, not computers. (a) A program should not require its readers to hold more than a handful of facts in memory at once. (b) Make names consistent, distinctive, and meaningful. (c) Make code style and formatting consistent. Let the computer do the work. (a) Make the computer repeat tasks. (b) Save recent commands in a file for re-use. (c) Use a build tool to automate workflows. Make incremental changes. (a) Work in small steps with frequent feedback and course correction. (b) Use a version control system. (c) Put everything that has been created manually in version control. Don’t repeat yourself (or others). (a) Every piece of data must have a single authoritative representation in the system. (b) Modularize code rather than copying and pasting. (c) Re-use code instead of rewriting it. Plan for mistakes. (a) Add assertions to programs to check their operation. (b) Use an off-the-shelf unit testing library. (c) Turn bugs into test cases. (d) Use a symbolic debugger. Optimize software only after it works correctly. (a) Use a profiler to identify bottlenecks. (b) Write code in the highest-level language possible. Document design and purpose, not mechanics. (a) Document interfaces and reasons, not implementations. (b) Refactor code in preference to explaining how it works. (c) Embed the documentation for a piece of software in that software. Collaborate. (a) Use pre-merge code reviews. (b) Use pair programming when bringing someone new up to speed and when tackling particularly tricky problems. (c) Use an issue tracking tool. I'm relatively new to serious programming for scientific data analysis. When I tried to write code for pilot analyses of some of my data last year, I encountered tremendous amount of bugs both in my code and data. Bugs and errors had been around me all the time, but this time it was somewhat overwhelming. I managed to crunch the numbers at last, but I thought I couldn't put up with this mess any longer. Some actions must be taken. Without a sophisticated guide like the article above, I started to adopt "defensive style" of programming since then. A book titled "The Art of Readable Code" helped me a lot. I deployed meticulous input validations or assertions for every function, renamed a lot of variables and functions for better readability, and extracted many subroutines as reusable functions. Recently, I introduced Git and SourceTree for version control. At the moment, because my co-workers are much more reluctant about these issues, the collaboration practices (8a,b,c) have not been introduced. Actually, as the authors admitted, because all of these practices take some amount of time and effort to introduce, it may be generally hard to persuade your reluctant collaborators to comply them. I think I'm asking your opinions because I still suffer from many bugs despite all my effort on many of these practices. Bug fix may be, or should be, faster than before, but I couldn't really measure the improvement. Moreover, much of my time has been invested on defence, meaning that I haven't actually done much data analysis (offence) these days. Where is the point I should stop at in terms of productivity? I've already deployed: 1a,b,c, 2a, 3a,b,c, 4b,c, 5a,d, 6a,b, 7a,7b I'm about to have a go at: 5b,c Not yet: 2b,c, 4a, 7c, 8a,b,c (I could not really see the advantage of using GNU make (2c) for my purpose. Could anyone tell me how it helps my work with MATLAB?)

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ASP.NET MVC HandleError Attribute

- by Ben Griswold

Last Wednesday, I took a whopping 15 minutes out of my day and added ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) to my ASP.NET MVC application. If you haven’t heard the news (I hadn’t until recently), ELMAH does a killer job of logging and reporting nearly all unhandled exceptions. As for handled exceptions, I’ve been using NLog but since I was already playing with the ELMAH bits I thought I’d see if I couldn’t replace it. Atif Aziz provided a quick solution in his answer to a Stack Overflow question. I’ll let you consult his answer to see how one can subclass the HandleErrorAttribute and override the OnException method in order to get the bits working. I pretty much took rolled the recommended logic into my application and it worked like a charm. Along the way, I did uncover a few HandleError fact to which I wasn’t already privy. Most of my learning came from Steven Sanderson’s book, Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework. I’ve flipped through a bunch of the book and spent time on specific sections. It’s a really good read if you’re looking to pick up an ASP.NET MVC reference. Anyway, my notes are found a comments in the following code snippet. I hope my notes clarify a few things for you too. public class LogAndHandleErrorAttribute : HandleErrorAttribute { public override void OnException(ExceptionContext context) { // A word from our sponsors: // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/766610/how-to-get-elmah-to-work-with-asp-net-mvc-handleerror-attribute // and Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework by Steven Sanderson // // Invoke the base implementation first. This should mark context.ExceptionHandled = true // which stops ASP.NET from producing a "yellow screen of death." This also sets the // Http StatusCode to 500 (internal server error.) // // Assuming Custom Errors aren't off, the base implementation will trigger the application // to ultimately render the "Error" view from one of the following locations: // // 1. ~/Views/Controller/Error.aspx // 2. ~/Views/Controller/Error.ascx // 3. ~/Views/Shared/Error.aspx // 4. ~/Views/Shared/Error.ascx // // "Error" is the default view, however, a specific view may be provided as an Attribute property. // A notable point is the Custom Errors defaultRedirect is not considered in the redirection plan. base.OnException(context); var e = context.Exception; // If the exception is unhandled, simply return and let Elmah handle the unhandled exception. // Otherwise, try to use error signaling which involves the fully configured pipeline like logging, // mailing, filtering and what have you). Failing that, see if the error should be filtered. // If not, the error simply logged the exception. if (!context.ExceptionHandled || RaiseErrorSignal(e) || IsFiltered(context)) return; LogException(e); // FYI. Simple Elmah logging doesn't handle mail notifications. }

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SQL SERVER – LCK_M_XXX – Wait Type – Day 15 of 28

- by pinaldave

Locking is a mechanism used by the SQL Server Database Engine to synchronize access by multiple users to the same piece of data, at the same time. In simpler words, it maintains the integrity of data by protecting (or preventing) access to the database object. From Book On-Line: LCK_M_BU Occurs when a task is waiting to acquire a Bulk Update (BU) lock. LCK_M_IS Occurs when a task is waiting to acquire an Intent Shared (IS) lock. LCK_M_IU Occurs when a task is waiting to acquire an Intent Update (IU) lock. LCK_M_IX Occurs when a task is waiting to acquire an Intent Exclusive (IX) lock. LCK_M_S Occurs when a task is waiting to acquire a Shared lock. LCK_M_SCH_M Occurs when a task is waiting to acquire a Schema Modify lock. LCK_M_SCH_S Occurs when a task is waiting to acquire a Schema Share lock. LCK_M_SIU Occurs when a task is waiting to acquire a Shared With Intent Update lock. LCK_M_SIX Occurs when a task is waiting to acquire a Shared With Intent Exclusive lock. LCK_M_U Occurs when a task is waiting to acquire an Update lock. LCK_M_UIX Occurs when a task is waiting to acquire an Update With Intent Exclusive lock. LCK_M_X Occurs when a task is waiting to acquire an Exclusive lock. LCK_M_XXX Explanation: I think the explanation of this wait type is the simplest. When any task is waiting to acquire lock on any resource, this particular wait type occurs. The common reason for the task to be waiting to put lock on the resource is that the resource is already locked and some other operations may be going on within it. This wait also indicates that resources are not available or are occupied at the moment due to some reasons. There is a good chance that the waiting queries start to time out if this wait type is very high. Client application may degrade the performance as well. You can use various methods to find blocking queries: EXEC sp_who2 SQL SERVER – Quickest Way to Identify Blocking Query and Resolution – Dirty Solution DMV – sys.dm_tran_locks DMV – sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks Reducing LCK_M_XXX wait: Check the Explicit Transactions. If transactions are very long, this wait type can start building up because of other waiting transactions. Keep the transactions small. Serialization Isolation can build up this wait type. If that is an acceptable isolation for your business, this wait type may be natural. The default isolation of SQL Server is ‘Read Committed’. One of my clients has changed their isolation to “Read Uncommitted”. I strongly discourage the use of this because this will probably lead to having lots of dirty data in the database. Identify blocking queries mentioned using various methods described above, and then optimize them. Partition can be one of the options to consider because this will allow transactions to execute concurrently on different partitions. If there are runaway queries, use timeout. (Please discuss this solution with your database architect first as timeout can work against you). Check if there is no memory and IO-related issue using the following counters: Checking Memory Related Perfmon Counters SQLServer: Memory Manager\Memory Grants Pending (Consistent higher value than 0-2) SQLServer: Memory Manager\Memory Grants Outstanding (Consistent higher value, Benchmark) SQLServer: Buffer Manager\Buffer Hit Cache Ratio (Higher is better, greater than 90% for usually smooth running system) SQLServer: Buffer Manager\Page Life Expectancy (Consistent lower value than 300 seconds) Memory: Available Mbytes (Information only) Memory: Page Faults/sec (Benchmark only) Memory: Pages/sec (Benchmark only) Checking Disk Related Perfmon Counters Average Disk sec/Read (Consistent higher value than 4-8 millisecond is not good) Average Disk sec/Write (Consistent higher value than 4-8 millisecond is not good) Average Disk Read/Write Queue Length (Consistent higher value than benchmark is not good) Read all the post in the Wait Types and Queue series. Note: The information presented here is from my experience and there is no way that I claim it to be accurate. I suggest reading Book OnLine for further clarification. All the discussion of Wait Stats in this blog is generic and varies from system to system. It is recommended that you test this on a development server before implementing it to a production server. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Filed under: Pinal Dave, PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL Wait Stats, SQL Wait Types, T SQL, Technology

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SharePoint Saturday Michigan 2010 Recap, Slides, and Photos

- by Brian Jackett

This past weekend I attended SharePoint Saturday Michigan (SPSMI) in Ann Arbor, Michigan. For those unfamiliar, SharePoint Saturday is a community driven event where various speakers gather to present at a FREE conference on all topics related to SharePoint. This made my third SharePoint Saturday attended and second I’ve spoken at. I believe today it was announced that about 210 people total attended the event. I was very happy with the turnout, especially the ratio of male to female attendees. Typically with computer related conferences the ratio leans towards more males attending, but both Peter Serzo (one of conference organizers) and I both commented to each other that at the end of the day it appeared to be close to 40% women in the crowd. So here’s my recap of the weekend. Arrival Friday afternoon I drove up from Columbus, OH to Ann Arbor, MI and arrived around 4pm. I was attempting to avoid the rush hour traffic and construction backups. Turned out to be a good idea because other speakers coming up Friday got stuck on a highway which literally closed down in both directions due to a bad accident. I was talking my friend Sean McDonough through the highway closing and this was the first time I had seen a solid black traffic line on Google Maps. Most of us are familiar with Green, Yellow, and Red, but this line was black if that tells you how bad it got. Speaker “Dinner” Fast forward a few hours and it was time for the speaker “dinner.” I put “dinner” in quotes because with this night alone SPSMI set a new bar for nicest and most extravagant speaker appreciation events for SharePoint Saturday. By tapping into some very influential contacts, the conference organizers were able to provide a truck limo (yep you heard right) with refreshments, access to an underground suite at the Palace of Auburn Hills, and courtside tickets to see the Detroit Pistons play that night. Being a Michigan native I have to say that I was absolutely floored by this experience and very thankful to our conference organizers Peter, Sebastian, and Jesse along with Trillium Teamologies. Sessions The actual conference started Saturday morning at 9am with the keynote by Rob Collie who is the Microsoft program manager for PowerPivot. The day continued and I attended the following sessions: Mike Watson (@mikewat) – “SharePoint 2010 Fight Night: Devs vs. Admins” Karl Swedeberg (@kswedberg) – “A Walk on the Client Side with jQuery“ [my session] Brian Jackett (@briantjackett) - “Real World Deployment of SharePoint 2007 Solutions” Jeff Willinger (@jwillie) - “Social Computing and Collaboration Inside and Outside the 4 Walls” Paul Schaeflein (@paulschaeflein) – “PowerShell for the SharePoint Developer” My Presentation I had a great time presenting my session on Deploying SharePoint 2007 Solutions, but it wasn’t without its fair share of technical issues. As my session was right after lunch I came in to my room 10 mins early to set up my laptop, slides, and demos. As a quick background note, a few months ago I got an upgraded laptop from my company Sogeti and have been dual booting it between XP (factory installed) and Windows Server 2008 R2 w/ Hyper-V. As such I had prepared all of my demo virtual machines to run under Hyper-V. About 3 minutes before my session was scheduled to start though it became apparent that I did not have the correct display drivers to connect Windows Server 2008 R2 to the projector… As you can imagine this was a slight cause for concern as I was potentially going to be unable to give my presentation. Luckily for me I usually prepare for such unforeseen issues and had my presentation and some spare VMs that would run on XP on my external hard drive. Knowing this I rebooted my machine into XP and began my presentation without slides until about 5 mins into the session when everything was up and running on XP. Despite this being the first time I gave this presentation I have to say it was one of my favorites I’ve given so far. The audience was very engaged in the session and I received some great, positive feedback afterwards. Thanks to all who attended my session, I appreciate it very much. Link to Presentation Files For those of you who attended my session and would like my slides or demo PowerShell scripts they can be found on my SkyDrive at the link below. Also, if you have a few minutes and wouldn’t mind rating my session I have this session posted on SpeakerRate. As speakers we always appreciate any and all feedback attendees offer, so thank you if you are able to provide any. SkyDrive folder with session files Rate my SharePoint 2007 Solutions session Picture Albums For everyone else, here are my pictures from the weekend. The first link is to my FaceBook album which will have tagging (recommend this one.) The second is to my Live album if you care for higher resolution images. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2154482&id=21905041&l=a3fb72ee8c View Full Album Conclusion A big thank you goes out to all of the organizers, speakers, sponsors, and attendees of SPSMI. As I’ve said so many times, without each and every one of you these events wouldn’t be possible. I thoroughly enjoyed this trip back to my home state and presenting a new session. For those interested in my upcoming schedule I will be giving two sessions on PowerShell at SharePoint Saturday Charlotte in April, helping plan Stir Trek: Iron Man Edition in May, and I’m submitting sessions to Day of .Net Ann Arbor in May as well. Beyond that I haven’t planned out any travels. Thanks for reading my recap. Look forward to more technical posts now that I have a short break in conferences. -Frog Out links: Michigan image

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Using the “Settings.settings” functionalities in VB.NET can be tricky…

- by Vincent Grondin

Sometime you’re searching for something forever and when you find it, you realize it was right under your nose. Maybe you were distracted by other things around… or maybe that thing right under your nose was so well hidden that it deserves a blog post… That happened to me a few days ago while using the “Settings.settings” functionalities in my VB.NET application… I thought it was a cool feature and I decided to use it… So there I am adding new settings with “USER” scope and StringCollection as the data type, testing my application and everything works perfectly fine... That was before I decided to modify the “Value” of one of my settings… After changing the value of one of my settings, I start my application again and, to my surprise, my new values aren’t showing! Hmmm… That’s odd… My setting was a pretty long list of strings so I was rather angry at myself for not saving my work after I was done… So I open up the Settings.setting in the designer and click the ellipsis symbol to enter my string collection again, but to my great pleasure (and disbelief) my strings are there!!! Alright, you rock VB.NET! You’ve just save me a bunch of typing time and I’m thinking it’s just a simple Visual Studio glitch… I hit “Save” then “Save All” (just in case) and finally I rebuild everything and fire up my app once again. Huh? Where are my darn strings???????? Ok there’s a bug there… I open up the app.config and my new strings are there!!! Alright, let’s recap… My new strings are in the app.config, they show correctly in the Settings.settings designer UI but they aren’t showing at runtime… Hmmmm? Let’s try something else… Let’s start the application but outside Visual Studio this time… I fire up the exe and BAM! My strings where there! I “alt-tab” and hit “F5” and BOOM, no strings! So it’s a bug in the Visual Studio environment… or could it be a FEATURE? I must admit that I’m a little confused over what’s a bug and what’s a feature in Visual Studio… lol! Finally I found out there’s a “cache” for your Visual Studio located here: C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\<your app name and a very weird temp ID>\<your app version>\user.config When using the “Settings.settings” with a setting of scope “user”, this file is out of sync with your app.config until you manually decide to update it… The button is right there… under your nose… at the top left corner of your screen in the settings designer… See the big “Synchronize” button there? Yep… Now that’s user friendly isn’t it? Oh, and wait until you see what it does when you click it… It prompts you and basically says: “Would you like your settings to start working inside Visual Studio now that you found out that I exist?” and of course the right answer is yes… or rather “OK”… Unfortunately, you have to do this every time you edit a value… On the other hand, adding and removing settings seem to work flawlessly without having to click this magical button… go figure! Oh and I almost forgot… this great “feature” is only available for VB.NET… A project in C# using Settings.settings will work perfectly EVEN when editing values… Here’s a screenshot that shows this important button: Button Using other data types appears to work perfectly well… Maybe it’s simply related to the StringCollection data type? If you are a VB.NET programmer, you should pay attention to this when you plan on using the settings functionalities and your scope is “user” and your data type is StringCollection… Happy coding all!

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What’s Your Tax Strategy? Automate the Tax Transfer Pricing Process!

- by tobyehatch

Does your business operate in multiple countries? Well, whether you like it or not, many local and international tax authorities inspect your tax strategy. Legal, effective tax planning is perceived as a “moral” issue. CEOs are being asked to testify on their process of tax transfer pricing between multinational legal entities. Marc Seewald, Senior Director of Product Management for EPM Applications specializing in all tax subjects and Product Manager for Oracle Hyperion Tax Provisioning, and Bart Stoehr, Senior Director of Product Strategy for Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management joined me for a discussion/podcast on this interesting subject. So what exactly is “tax transfer pricing”? Marc defined it this way. “Tax transfer pricing is a profit allocation methodology required to be used by multinational corporations. Specifically, the ultimate goal of the transfer pricing is to ensure that the global multinational pays their fair share of income tax in each of their local markets. Specifically, it prevents companies from unfairly moving profit from ‘high tax’ countries to ‘low tax’ countries.” According to Marc, in today’s global economy, profitability can be significantly impacted by goods and services exchanged between the related divisions within a single multinational company. To ensure that these cost allocations are done fairly, there are rules that govern the process. These rules ensure that intercompany allocations fairly represent the actual nature of the businesses activity- as if two divisions were unrelated - and provide a clear audit trail of how the costs have been allocated to prove that allocations fall within reasonable ranges. What are the repercussions of improper tax transfer pricing? How important is it? Tax transfer pricing allocations can materially impact the amount of overall corporate income taxes paid by a company worldwide, in some cases by hundreds of millions of dollars! Since so much tax revenue is at stake, revenue agencies like the IRS, and international regulatory bodies like the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) are pushing to reform and clarify reporting for tax transfer pricing. Most recently the OECD announced an “Action Plan for Base Erosion and Profit Shifting”. As Marc explained, the times are changing and companies need to be responsive to this issue. “It feels like every other week there is another company being accused of avoiding taxes,” said Marc. Most recently, Caterpillar was accused of avoiding billions of dollars in taxes. In the last couple of years, Apple, GE, Ikea, and Starbucks, have all been accused of tax avoidance. It’s imperative that companies like these have a clear and auditable tax transfer process that enables them to justify tax transfer pricing allocations and avoid steep penalties and bad publicity. Transparency and efficiency are what is needed when it comes to the tax transfer pricing process. Bart explained that tax transfer pricing is driving a deeper inspection of profit recognition specifically focused on the tax element of profit. However, allocations needed to support tax profitability are nearly identical in process to allocations taking place in other parts of the finance organization. For example, the methods and processes necessary to arrive at tax profitability by legal entity are no different than those used to arrive at fully loaded profitability for a product line. In fact, there is a great opportunity for alignment across these two different functions.So it seems that tax transfer pricing should be reflected in profitability in general. Bart agreed and told us more about some of the critical sub-processes of an overall tax transfer pricing process within the Oracle solution for tax transfer pricing. “First, there is a ton of data preparation, enrichment and pre-allocation data analysis that is managed in the Oracle Hyperion solution. This serves as the “data staging” to the next, critical sub-processes. From here, we leverage the Oracle EPM platform’s ability to re-use dimensions and legal entity driver data and financial data with Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management (HPCM). Within HPCM, we manage the driver data, define the legal entity to legal entity allocation rules (like cost plus), and have the option to test out multiple, simultaneous tax transfer pricing what-if scenarios. Once processed, a tax expert can evaluate the effectiveness of any one scenario result versus another via a variance analysis configured with HPCM’s pre-packaged reporting capability known as Oracle Hyperion SmartView for Office.” Further, Bart explained that the ability to visibly demonstrate how a cost or revenue has been allocated is really helpful and auditable. “HPCM’s Traceability Maps are that visual representation of all allocation flows that have been executed and is the tax transfer analyst’s best friend in maintaining clear documentation for tax transfer pricing audits. Simply click and drill as you inspect the chain of allocation definitions and results. Once final, the post-allocated tax data can be compared to the GL to create invoices and journal entries for posting to your GL system of choice. Of course, there is a framework for overall governance of the journal entries, allocation percentages, and reporting to include necessary approvals.” Lastly, Marc explained that the key value in using the Oracle Hyperion solution for tax transfer pricing is that it keeps everything in alignment in one single place. Specifically, Oracle Hyperion effectively becomes the single book of record for the GAAP, management, and the tax set of books. There are many benefits to having one source of the truth. These include EFFICIENCY, CONTROLS and TRANSPARENCY.So, what’s your tax strategy? Why not automate the tax transfer pricing process!To listen to the entire podcast, click here.To learn more about Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management (HPCM), click here.

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Integrate BING API for Search inside ASP.Net web application

- by sreejukg

As you might already know, Bing is the Microsoft Search engine and is getting popular day by day. Bing offers APIs that can be integrated into your website to increase your website functionality. At this moment, there are two important APIs available. They are Bing Search API Bing Maps The Search API enables you to build applications that utilize Bing’s technology. The API allows you to search multiple source types such as web; images, video etc. and supports various output prototypes such as JSON, XML, and SOAP. Also you will be able to customize the search results as you wish for your public facing website. Bing Maps API allows you to build robust applications that use Bing Maps. In this article I am going to describe, how you can integrate Bing search into your website. In order to start using Bing, First you need to sign in to http://www.bing.com/toolbox/bingdeveloper/ using your windows live credentials. Click on the Sign in button, you will be asked to enter your windows live credentials. Once signed in you will be redirected to the Developer page. Here you can create applications and get AppID for each application. Since I am a first time user, I don’t have any applications added. Click on the Add button to add a new application. You will be asked to enter certain details about your application. The fields are straight forward, only thing you need to note is the website field, here you need to enter the website address from where you are going to use this application, and this field is optional too. Of course you need to agree on the terms and conditions and then click Save. Once you click on save, the application will be created and application ID will be available for your use. Now we got the APP Id. Basically Bing supports three protocols. They are JSON, XML and SOAP. JSON is useful if you want to call the search requests directly from the browser and use JavaScript to parse the results, thus JSON is the favorite choice for AJAX application. XML is the alternative for applications that does not support SOAP, e.g. flash/ Silverlight etc. SOAP is ideal for strongly typed languages and gives a request/response object model. In this article I am going to demonstrate how to search BING API using SOAP protocol from an ASP.Net application. For the purpose of this demonstration, I am going to create an ASP.Net project and implement the search functionality in an aspx page. Open Visual Studio, navigate to File-> New Project, select ASP.Net empty web application, I named the project as “BingSearchSample”. Add a Search.aspx page to the project, once added the solution explorer will looks similar to the following. Now you need to add a web reference to the SOAP service available from Bing. To do this, from the solution explorer, right click your project, select Add Service Reference. Now the new service reference dialog will appear. In the left bottom of the dialog, you can find advanced button, click on it. Now the service reference settings dialog will appear. In the bottom left, you can find Add Web Reference button, click on it. The add web reference dialog will appear now. Enter the URL as http://api.bing.net/search.wsdl?AppID=<YourAppIDHere>&version=2.2 (replace <yourAppIDHere> with the appID you have generated previously) and click on the button next to it. This will find the web service methods available. You can change the namespace suggested by Bing, but for the purpose of this demonstration I have accepted all the default settings. Click on the Add reference button once you are done. Now the web reference to Search service will be added your project. You can find this under solution explorer of your project. Now in the Search.aspx, that you previously created, place one textbox, button and a grid view. For the purpose of this demonstration, I have given the identifiers (ID) as txtSearch, btnSearch, gvSearch respectively. The idea is to search the text entered in the text box using Bing service and show the results in the grid view. In the design view, the search.aspx looks as follows. In the search.aspx.cs page, add a using statement that points to net.bing.api. I have added the following code for button click event handler. The code is very straight forward. It just calls the service with your AppID, a query to search and a source for searching. Let us run this page and see the output when I enter Microsoft in my textbox. If you want to search a specific site, you can include the site name in the query parameter. For e.g. the following query will search the word Microsoft from www.microsoft.com website. searchRequest.Query = “site:www.microsoft.com Microsoft”; The output of this query is as follows. Integrating BING search API to your website is easy and there is no limit on the customization of the interface you can do. There is no Bing branding required so I believe this is a great option for web developers when they plan for site search.

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ODI 12c's Mapping Designer - Combining Flow Based and Expression Based Mapping

- by Madhu Nair

post by David Allan ODI is renowned for its declarative designer and minimal expression based paradigm. The new ODI 12c release has extended this even further to provide an extended declarative mapping designer. The ODI 12c mapper is a fusion of ODI's new declarative designer with the familiar flow based designer while retaining ODI’s key differentiators of: Minimal expression based definition, The ability to incrementally design an interface and to extract/load data from any combination of sources, and most importantly Backed by ODI’s extensible knowledge module framework. The declarative nature of the product has been extended to include an extensible library of common components that can be used to easily build simple to complex data integration solutions. Big usability improvements through consistent interactions of components and concepts all constructed around the familiar knowledge module framework provide the utmost flexibility. Here is a little taster: So what is a mapping? A mapping comprises of a logical design and at least one physical design, it may have many. A mapping can have many targets, of any technology and can be arbitrarily complex. You can build reusable mappings and use them in other mappings or other reusable mappings. In the example below all of the information from an Oracle bonus table and a bonus file are joined with an Oracle employees table before being written to a target. Some things that are cool include the one-click expression cross referencing so you can easily see what's used where within the design. The logical design in a mapping describes what you want to accomplish (see the animated GIF here illustrating how the above mapping was designed) . The physical design lets you configure how it is to be accomplished. So you could have one logical design that is realized as an initial load in one physical design and as an incremental load in another. In the physical design below we can customize how the mapping is accomplished by picking Knowledge Modules, in ODI 12c you can pick multiple nodes (on logical or physical) and see common properties. This is useful as we can quickly compare property values across objects - below we can see knowledge modules settings on the access points between execution units side by side, in the example one table is retrieved via database links and the other is an external table. In the logical design I had selected an append mode for the integration type, so by default the IKM on the target will choose the most suitable/default IKM - which in this case is an in-built Oracle Insert IKM (see image below). This supports insert and select hints for the Oracle database (the ANSI SQL Insert IKM does not support these), so by default you will get direct path inserts with Oracle on this statement. In ODI 12c, the mapper is just that, a mapper. Design your mapping, write to multiple targets, the targets can be in the same data server, in different data servers or in totally different technologies - it does not matter. ODI 12c will derive and generate a plan that you can use or customize with knowledge modules. Some of the use cases which are greatly simplified include multiple heterogeneous targets, multi target inserts for Oracle and writing of XML. Let's switch it up now and look at a slightly different example to illustrate expression reuse. In ODI you can define reusable expressions using user functions. These can be reused across mappings and the implementations specialized per technology. So you can have common expressions across Oracle, SQL Server, Hive etc. shielding the design from the physical aspects of the generated language. Another way to reuse is within a mapping itself. In ODI 12c expressions can be defined and reused within a mapping. Rather than replicating the expression text in larger expressions you can decompose into smaller snippets, below you can see UNIT_TAX AMOUNT has been defined and is used in two downstream target columns - its used in the TOTAL_TAX_AMOUNT plus its used in the UNIT_TAX_AMOUNT (a recording of the calculation). You can see the columns that the expressions depend on (upstream) and the columns the expression is used in (downstream) highlighted within the mapper. Also multi selecting attributes is a convenient way to see what's being used where, below I have selected the TOTAL_TAX_AMOUNT in the target datastore and the UNIT_TAX_AMOUNT in UNIT_CALC. You can now see many expressions at once now and understand much more at the once time without needlessly clicking around and memorizing information. Our mantra during development was to keep it simple and make the tool more powerful and do even more for the user. The development team was a fusion of many teams from Oracle Warehouse Builder, Sunopsis and BEA Aqualogic, debating and perfecting the mapper in ODI 12c. This was quite a project from supporting the capabilities of ODI in 11g to building the flow based mapping tool to support the future. I hope this was a useful insight, there is so much more to come on this topic, this is just a preview of much more that you will see of the mapper in ODI 12c.

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Android edtftpj/PRo SFTP heap worker problem

- by Mr. Kakakuwa Bird

Hi I am using edtftpj-pro3.1 trial copy in my android app to make SFTP connection with the server. After few connections with the server with 5-6 file transfers, my app is crashing with following exception. Is it causing the problem or what could be the problem?? I tried setParallelMode(false) in SSHFTPClient, but it is not working. Exception i'm getting is, 05-31 18:28:12.661: ERROR/dalvikvm(589): HeapWorker is wedged: 10173ms spent inside Lcom/enterprisedt/net/j2ssh/sftp/SftpFileInputStream;.finalize()V 05-31 18:28:12.661: INFO/dalvikvm(589): DALVIK THREADS: 05-31 18:28:12.661: INFO/dalvikvm(589): "main" prio=5 tid=3 WAIT 05-31 18:28:12.661: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | group="main" sCount=1 dsCount=0 s=N obj=0x4001b260 self=0xbd18 05-31 18:28:12.661: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | sysTid=589 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=-1343993192 05-31 18:28:12.661: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method) 05-31 18:28:12.661: INFO/dalvikvm(589): - waiting on <0x122d70 (a android.os.MessageQueue) 05-31 18:28:12.661: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:288) 05-31 18:28:12.661: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at android.os.MessageQueue.next(MessageQueue.java:148) 05-31 18:28:12.661: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:110) 05-31 18:28:12.661: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4363) 05-31 18:28:12.661: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 05-31 18:28:12.661: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521) 05-31 18:28:12.661: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:860) 05-31 18:28:12.661: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:618) 05-31 18:28:12.661: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): "Transport protocol 1" daemon prio=5 tid=29 NATIVE 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | group="main" sCount=1 dsCount=0 s=N obj=0x44774768 self=0x3a7938 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | sysTid=605 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=3834600 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at org.apache.harmony.luni.platform.OSNetworkSystem.receiveStreamImpl(Native Method) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at org.apache.harmony.luni.platform.OSNetworkSystem.receiveStream(OSNetworkSystem.java:478) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at org.apache.harmony.luni.net.PlainSocketImpl.read(PlainSocketImpl.java:565) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at org.apache.harmony.luni.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:87) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at org.apache.harmony.luni.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:67) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at java.io.BufferedInputStream.fillbuf(BufferedInputStream.java:157) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:346) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:341) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.enterprisedt.net.j2ssh.transport.A.A((null):-1) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.enterprisedt.net.j2ssh.transport.A.B((null):-1) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.enterprisedt.net.j2ssh.transport.TransportProtocolCommon.processMessages((null):-1) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.enterprisedt.net.j2ssh.transport.TransportProtocolCommon.startBinaryPacketProtocol((null):-1) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.enterprisedt.net.j2ssh.transport.TransportProtocolCommon.run((null):-1) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1096) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): "StreamFrameSender" prio=5 tid=27 TIMED_WAIT 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | group="main" sCount=1 dsCount=0 s=N obj=0x44750a60 self=0x3964d8 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | sysTid=603 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=3761648 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): - waiting on <0x399478 (a com.corventis.gateway.ppp.StreamFrameSender) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:326) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.corventis.gateway.ppp.StreamFrameSender.run(StreamFrameSender.java:154) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.corventis.gateway.util.MonitoredRunnable.run(MonitoredRunnable.java:41) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1096) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): "SftpActiveWorker" prio=5 tid=25 TIMED_WAIT 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | group="main" sCount=1 dsCount=0 s=N obj=0x447522b0 self=0x398e00 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | sysTid=604 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=3762704 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): - waiting on <0x3962d8 (a com.corventis.gateway.hostcommunicator.SftpActiveWorker) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:326) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.corventis.gateway.hostcommunicator.SftpActiveWorker.run(SftpActiveWorker.java:151) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.corventis.gateway.util.MonitoredRunnable.run(MonitoredRunnable.java:41) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1096) 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): "Thread-12" prio=5 tid=23 NATIVE 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | group="main" sCount=1 dsCount=0 s=N obj=0x4474aca8 self=0x115690 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | sysTid=602 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=878120 05-31 18:28:12.671: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at android.bluetooth.BluetoothSocket.acceptNative(Native Method) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at android.bluetooth.BluetoothSocket.accept(BluetoothSocket.java:287) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at android.bluetooth.BluetoothServerSocket.accept(BluetoothServerSocket.java:105) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at android.bluetooth.BluetoothServerSocket.accept(BluetoothServerSocket.java:91) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.corventis.gateway.bluetooth.BluetoothManager.openPort(BluetoothManager.java:215) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.corventis.gateway.bluetooth.BluetoothManager.open(BluetoothManager.java:84) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.corventis.gateway.patchcommunicator.PatchCommunicator.open(PatchCommunicator.java:123) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.corventis.gateway.patchcommunicator.PatchCommunicatorRunnable.run(PatchCommunicatorRunnable.java:134) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1096) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): "HfGatewayApplication" prio=5 tid=21 RUNNABLE 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | group="main" sCount=0 dsCount=0 s=N obj=0x4472d9b0 self=0x120928 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | sysTid=601 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=1264672 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.jcraft.jzlib.Deflate.deflateInit2(Deflate.java:~1361) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.jcraft.jzlib.Deflate.deflateInit(Deflate.java:1316) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.jcraft.jzlib.ZStream.deflateInit(ZStream.java:127) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.jcraft.jzlib.ZStream.deflateInit(ZStream.java:120) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.jcraft.jzlib.ZOutputStream.(ZOutputStream.java:62) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.corventis.gateway.zipfile.ZipStorer.addStream(ZipStorer.java:211) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.corventis.gateway.zipfile.ZipStorer.createZip(ZipStorer.java:127) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.corventis.gateway.hostcommunicator.HostCommunicator.scanAndCompress(HostCommunicator.java:453) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.corventis.gateway.hostcommunicator.HostCommunicator.doWork(HostCommunicator.java:1434) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.corventis.gateway.hf.HfGatewayApplication.doWork(HfGatewayApplication.java:621) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.corventis.gateway.hf.HfGatewayApplication.run(HfGatewayApplication.java:546) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.corventis.gateway.util.MonitoredRunnable.run(MonitoredRunnable.java:41) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1096) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): "Thread-10" prio=5 tid=19 TIMED_WAIT 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | group="main" sCount=1 dsCount=0 s=N obj=0x447287f8 self=0x1451b8 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | sysTid=598 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=1331920 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at java.lang.VMThread.sleep(Native Method) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at java.lang.Thread.sleep(Thread.java:1306) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at java.lang.Thread.sleep(Thread.java:1286) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.corventis.gateway.util.Watchdog.run(Watchdog.java:167) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1096) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): "Thread-9" prio=5 tid=17 RUNNABLE 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | group="main" sCount=1 dsCount=0 s=Y obj=0x44722c90 self=0x114e20 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | sysTid=597 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=1200048 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.corventis.gateway.time.Time.currentTimeMillis(Time.java:~77) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.corventis.gateway.patchcommunicator.PatchCommunicatorState$1.run(PatchCommunicatorState.java:27) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): "Thread-8" prio=5 tid=15 RUNNABLE 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | group="main" sCount=1 dsCount=0 s=Y obj=0x44722430 self=0x124dd0 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | sysTid=596 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=1199848 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.corventis.gateway.time.Time.currentTimeMillis(Time.java:~80) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.corventis.gateway.hostcommunicator.HostCommunicatorState$1.run(HostCommunicatorState.java:35) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): "Binder Thread #2" prio=5 tid=13 NATIVE 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | group="main" sCount=1 dsCount=0 s=N obj=0x4471ccc0 self=0x149b60 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | sysTid=595 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=1317992 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.run(Native Method) 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): "Binder Thread #1" prio=5 tid=11 NATIVE 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | group="main" sCount=1 dsCount=0 s=N obj=0x447159a8 self=0x123298 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | sysTid=594 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=1164896 05-31 18:28:12.681: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.run(Native Method) 05-31 18:28:12.691: INFO/dalvikvm(589): "JDWP" daemon prio=5 tid=9 VMWAIT 05-31 18:28:12.691: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | group="system" sCount=1 dsCount=0 s=N obj=0x4470f2a0 self=0x141a90 05-31 18:28:12.691: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | sysTid=593 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=1316864 05-31 18:28:12.691: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.run(Native Method) 05-31 18:28:12.691: INFO/dalvikvm(589): "Signal Catcher" daemon prio=5 tid=7 VMWAIT 05-31 18:28:12.691: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | group="system" sCount=1 dsCount=0 s=N obj=0x4470f1e8 self=0x124970 05-31 18:28:12.691: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | sysTid=592 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=1316800 05-31 18:28:12.691: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.run(Native Method) 05-31 18:28:12.691: INFO/dalvikvm(589): "HeapWorker" daemon prio=5 tid=5 MONITOR 05-31 18:28:12.691: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | group="system" sCount=1 dsCount=0 s=N obj=0x431b4550 self=0x141670 05-31 18:28:12.691: INFO/dalvikvm(589): | sysTid=591 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=1316400 05-31 18:28:12.691: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.enterprisedt.net.j2ssh.sftp.SftpSubsystemClient.closeHandle((null):~-1) 05-31 18:28:12.691: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.enterprisedt.net.j2ssh.sftp.SftpSubsystemClient.closeFile((null):-1) 05-31 18:28:12.691: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.enterprisedt.net.j2ssh.sftp.SftpFile.close((null):-1) 05-31 18:28:12.691: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.enterprisedt.net.j2ssh.sftp.SftpFileInputStream.close((null):-1) 05-31 18:28:12.691: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at com.enterprisedt.net.j2ssh.sftp.SftpFileInputStream.finalize((null):-1) 05-31 18:28:12.691: INFO/dalvikvm(589): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.run(Native Method) 05-31 18:28:12.691: ERROR/dalvikvm(589): VM aborting 05-31 18:28:12.801: INFO/DEBUG(49): * ** * ** * ** * ** * ** * 05-31 18:28:12.801: INFO/DEBUG(49): Build fingerprint: 'google/passion/passion/mahimahi:2.1-update1/ERE27/24178:user/release-keys' 05-31 18:28:12.801: INFO/DEBUG(49): pid: 589, tid: 601 com.corventis.gateway.hf <<< 05-31 18:28:12.801: INFO/DEBUG(49): signal 11 (SIGSEGV), fault addr deadd00d 05-31 18:28:12.801: INFO/DEBUG(49): r0 00000026 r1 afe13329 r2 afe13329 r3 00000000 05-31 18:28:12.801: INFO/DEBUG(49): r4 ad081f50 r5 400091e8 r6 009b3a6a r7 00000000 05-31 18:28:12.801: INFO/DEBUG(49): r8 000002e8 r9 ad082ba0 10 ad082ba0 fp 00000000 05-31 18:28:12.801: INFO/DEBUG(49): ip deadd00d sp 46937c58 lr afe14373 pc ad035b4c cpsr 20000030 05-31 18:28:12.851: INFO/DEBUG(49): #00 pc 00035b4c /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.861: INFO/DEBUG(49): #01 pc 00044d7c /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.861: INFO/DEBUG(49): #02 pc 000162e4 /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.861: INFO/DEBUG(49): #03 pc 00016b60 /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.861: INFO/DEBUG(49): #04 pc 00016ce0 /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.861: INFO/DEBUG(49): #05 pc 00057b64 /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.861: INFO/DEBUG(49): #06 pc 00057cc0 /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.871: INFO/DEBUG(49): #07 pc 00057dd4 /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.871: INFO/DEBUG(49): #08 pc 00012ffc /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.871: INFO/DEBUG(49): #09 pc 00019338 /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.871: INFO/DEBUG(49): #10 pc 00018804 /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.871: INFO/DEBUG(49): #11 pc 0004eed0 /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.871: INFO/DEBUG(49): #12 pc 0004eef8 /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.871: INFO/DEBUG(49): #13 pc 000426d4 /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.881: INFO/DEBUG(49): #14 pc 0000fd74 /system/lib/libc.so 05-31 18:28:12.881: INFO/DEBUG(49): #15 pc 0000f840 /system/lib/libc.so 05-31 18:28:12.881: INFO/DEBUG(49): code around pc: 05-31 18:28:12.881: INFO/DEBUG(49): ad035b3c 58234808 b1036b9b f8df4798 2026c01c 05-31 18:28:12.881: INFO/DEBUG(49): ad035b4c 0000f88c ef52f7d8 0004c428 fffe631c 05-31 18:28:12.881: INFO/DEBUG(49): ad035b5c fffe94f4 000002f8 deadd00d f8dfb40e 05-31 18:28:12.881: INFO/DEBUG(49): code around lr: 05-31 18:28:12.881: INFO/DEBUG(49): afe14360 686768a5 f9b5e008 b120000c 46289201 05-31 18:28:12.881: INFO/DEBUG(49): afe14370 9a014790 35544306 37fff117 6824d5f3 05-31 18:28:12.881: INFO/DEBUG(49): afe14380 d1ed2c00 bdfe4630 00026ab0 000000b4 05-31 18:28:12.881: INFO/DEBUG(49): stack: 05-31 18:28:12.881: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c18 00000015 05-31 18:28:12.881: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c1c afe13359 /system/lib/libc.so 05-31 18:28:12.881: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c20 afe3b02c /system/lib/libc.so 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c24 afe3afd8 /system/lib/libc.so 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c28 00000000 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c2c afe14373 /system/lib/libc.so 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c30 afe13329 /system/lib/libc.so 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c34 afe13329 /system/lib/libc.so 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c38 afe13380 /system/lib/libc.so 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c3c ad081f50 /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c40 400091e8 /dev/ashmem/mspace/dalvik-heap/zygote/0 (deleted) 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c44 009b3a6a 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c48 00000000 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c4c afe1338d /system/lib/libc.so 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c50 df002777 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c54 e3a070ad 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): #00 46937c58 ad06f573 /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c5c ad044d81 /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): #01 46937c60 000027bd 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c64 00000000 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c68 463b6ab4 /data/dalvik-cache/data@[email protected]@classes.dex 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c6c 463d1ecf /data/dalvik-cache/data@[email protected]@classes.dex 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c70 00140450 [heap] 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c74 ad041d2b /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c78 ad082f2c /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c7c ad06826c /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c80 00140450 [heap] 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c84 00000000 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c88 000002f8 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c8c 400091e8 /dev/ashmem/mspace/dalvik-heap/zygote/0 (deleted) 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c90 ad081f50 /system/lib/libdvm.so 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c94 000002f8 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c98 00002710 05-31 18:28:12.891: INFO/DEBUG(49): 46937c9c ad0162e8 /system/lib/libdvm.so Thanks & Regards,

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On Contract Employment

- by kerry

I am going to post about something I don’t post about a lot, the business side of development. Scott at the antipimp does a good job of explaining how contracts work from a business perspective. I am going to give a view from the ground. First, a little background on myself. I have recently taken a 6 month contract after about 8 years of fulltime employment. I have 2 kids, and a stay at home wife. I took this contract opportunity because I wanted to try it on for size. I have always wondered whether I would like doing contracts over fulltime employment. So, in keeping with the theme of this blog I will write this down now so that I may reference it later. ALL jobs are temporary! Right now you may not realize it, most people simply ignore it, but EVERY job is temporary. Everyone should be planning for life after the money stops coming in. Sadly, most people do not. Contracting pushes this issue to the forefront, making you deal with it. After a month on a contract, I am happy to say that I am saving more than I ever saved in a fulltime position. Hopefully, I will be ready in case of an extended window of unemployment between contracts. Networking I find it extremely gratifying getting to know people. It is especially beneficial when moving to a new city. What better way to go out and meet people in your field than to work a few contracts? 6 months of working beside someone and you get to know them pretty well. This is one of my favorite aspects. Technical Agility Moving between IS shops takes (or molds you into) a flexible person. You have to be able to go in and hit the ground running. This means you need to be able to sit down and start work on a large codebase working in a language that you may or may not have that much experience in. It is also an excellent way to learn new languages and broaden your technical skill set. I took my current position to learn Ruby. A month ago, I had only used it in passing, but now I am using it every day. It’s a tragedy in this field when people start coding for the joy and love of coding, then become deeply entrenched in their companies methods and technologies that it becomes a just a job. Less Stress I am not talking about the kind of stress you get from a jackass boss. I am talking about the kind of stress I (or others) experience about planning and future proofing your code. Not saying I stay up at night worrying whether we have done it right, if that code I wrote today is going to bite me later, but it still creeps around in the dark recesses of my mind. Careful though, I am not suggesting you write sloppy code; just defer any large architectural or design decisions to the ‘code owners’. Flexible Scheduling It makes me very happy to be able to cut out a few hours early on a Friday (provided the work is done) and start the weekend off early by going to the pool, or taking the kids to the park. Contracting provides you this opportunity (mileage may vary). Most of your fulltime brethren will not care, they will be jealous that they’re corporate policy prevents them from doing the same. However, you must be mindful of situations where this is not appropriate, and don’t over do it. You are there to work after all. Affirmation of Need Have you ever been stuck in a job where you thought you were underpaid? Have you ever been in a position where you felt like there was not enough workload for you? This is not a problem for contractors. When you start a contract it is understood that you are needed, and the employer knows that you are happy with the terms. Contracting may not be for everyone. But, if you develop a relationship with a good consulting firm, keep their clients happy, then they will keep you happy. They want you to work almost as much as you do. Just be sure and plan financially for any windows of unemployment.

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System locking up with suspicious messages about hard disk

- by Chris Conway

My system has started behaving strangely, intermittently locking up. I see messages like the following in syslog: Nov 18 22:22:00 claypool kernel: [ 3428.078156] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Nov 18 22:22:00 claypool kernel: [ 3428.078163] ata3.00: irq_stat 0x40000000 Nov 18 22:22:00 claypool kernel: [ 3428.078167] sr 2:0:0:0: CDB: Test Unit Ready: 00 00 00 00 00 00 Nov 18 22:22:00 claypool kernel: [ 3428.078182] ata3.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 Nov 18 22:22:00 claypool kernel: [ 3428.078184] res 50/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x1 (device error) Nov 18 22:22:00 claypool kernel: [ 3428.078188] ata3.00: status: { DRDY } Nov 18 22:22:00 claypool kernel: [ 3428.080887] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Nov 18 22:22:00 claypool kernel: [ 3428.080890] ata3.00: irq_stat 0x40000000 Nov 18 22:22:00 claypool kernel: [ 3428.080893] sr 2:0:0:0: CDB: Test Unit Ready: 00 00 00 00 00 00 Nov 18 22:22:00 claypool kernel: [ 3428.080905] ata3.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 Nov 18 22:22:00 claypool kernel: [ 3428.080906] res 50/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x1 (device error) Nov 18 22:22:00 claypool kernel: [ 3428.080910] ata3.00: status: { DRDY } And then this: Nov 18 23:13:56 claypool kernel: [ 6544.000798] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Nov 18 23:13:56 claypool kernel: [ 6544.000804] ata1.00: failed command: FLUSH CACHE EXT Nov 18 23:13:56 claypool kernel: [ 6544.000814] ata1.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 Nov 18 23:13:56 claypool kernel: [ 6544.000815] res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Nov 18 23:13:56 claypool kernel: [ 6544.000819] ata1.00: status: { DRDY } Nov 18 23:13:56 claypool kernel: [ 6544.000825] ata1: hard resetting link Nov 18 23:14:01 claypool kernel: [ 6549.360324] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Nov 18 23:14:06 claypool kernel: [ 6554.008091] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16) Nov 18 23:14:06 claypool kernel: [ 6554.008103] ata1: hard resetting link Nov 18 23:14:11 claypool kernel: [ 6559.372246] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Nov 18 23:14:16 claypool kernel: [ 6564.020228] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16) Nov 18 23:14:16 claypool kernel: [ 6564.020235] ata1: hard resetting link Nov 18 23:14:21 claypool kernel: [ 6569.380109] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Nov 18 23:14:31 claypool kernel: [ 6579.460243] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Nov 18 23:14:31 claypool kernel: [ 6579.486595] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 Nov 18 23:14:31 claypool kernel: [ 6579.486601] ata1.00: retrying FLUSH 0xea Emask 0x4 Nov 18 23:14:31 claypool kernel: [ 6579.486939] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 Nov 18 23:14:31 claypool kernel: [ 6579.486952] ata1: EH complete Nov 18 23:17:01 claypool CRON[3910]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) Nov 18 23:17:01 claypool CRON[3908]: (CRON) error (grandchild #3910 failed with exit status 1) Nov 18 23:17:01 claypool postfix/sendmail[3925]: fatal: open /etc/postfix/main.cf: No such file or directory Nov 18 23:17:01 claypool CRON[3908]: (root) MAIL (mailed 1 byte of output; but got status 0x004b, #012) Nov 18 23:39:01 claypool CRON[4200]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -print0 | xargs -n 200 -r -0 rm) There are no messages marked after 23:39. When I next tried to use the machine, it would not return from the screensaver (blank screen), nor switch to another terminal, and I had to hard reboot it. [UPDATE] The output of smartctl is here. I had trouble getting this, because / is being mounted read-only (?!), which prevents most applications from running. Also, it may not be related, but I have the following worrying messages in dmesg: [ 10.084596] k8temp 0000:00:18.3: Temperature readouts might be wrong - check erratum #141 [ 10.098477] i2c i2c-0: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x600 [ 10.098483] ACPI: resource nForce2_smbus [io 0x0700-0x073f] conflicts with ACPI region SM00 [??? 0x00000700-0x0000073f flags 0x30] [ 10.098486] ACPI: This conflict may cause random problems and system instability [ 10.098487] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver [ 10.098509] i2c i2c-1: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x700 [ 10.112570] Linux agpgart interface v0.103 [ 10.155329] atk: Resources not safely usable due to acpi_enforce_resources kernel parameter [ 10.161506] it87: Found IT8712F chip at 0x290, revision 8 [ 10.161517] it87: VID is disabled (pins used for GPIO) [ 10.161527] it87: in3 is VCC (+5V) [ 10.161528] it87: in7 is VCCH (+5V Stand-By) [ 10.161560] ACPI: resource it87 [io 0x0295-0x0296] conflicts with ACPI region ECRE [??? 0x00000290-0x000002af flags 0x45] [ 10.161562] ACPI: This conflict may cause random problems and system instability [ 10.161564] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver [UPDATE 2] I swapped in a new SATA cable, per Phil's suggestion. The current output of smartctl is here, if it helps. [UPDATE 3] I don't think the cable fixed it. The system hasn't locked up yet, but my media player crashed a few minutes ago and I have the following in the syslog: Nov 20 16:07:17 claypool kernel: [ 2294.400033] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Nov 20 16:07:47 claypool kernel: [ 2324.084581] ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16) Nov 20 16:07:47 claypool kernel: [ 2324.084588] ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps Nov 20 16:07:47 claypool kernel: [ 2324.084592] ata1: hard resetting link I get the following response from smartctl: $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda [sudo] password for chris: sudo: Can't open /var/lib/sudo/chris/0: Read-only file system smartctl 5.40 2010-03-16 r3077 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net Device: /0:0:0:0 Version: scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp_len=47 offset=50 bd_len=46 >> Terminate command early due to bad response to IEC mode page A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. 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How to deploy jBPM 3.2.2 console on Oracle 10g iAS

- by Balint Pato

Hi! Does anybody have experience regarding deployment of the jBPM Administration Console on Oracle 10g iAS? I successfully deployed it using an .ear, security mappings working, I can even login to the console, Hibernate finds the JNDI datasource but it cannot find the TransactionManager. I see no log, only the exception thrown in the jsf page: Can anybody help me? The hibernate.cfg.xml file now looks like this: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN" "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd"> <hibernate-configuration> <session-factory>  <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle9Dialect</property>  <property name="hibernate.cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.HashtableCacheProvider</property>  <property name="hibernate.connection.datasource">java:/JbpmDS</property>   <property name="hibernate.transaction.factory_class">org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransactionFactory</property>     <property name="hibernate.show_sql">true</property> <property name="hibernate.format_sql">true</property> <property name="hibernate.use_sql_comments">true</property> <--==== logging properties (end) -->         <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/action/Script.hbm.xml"/>        <mapping resource="org/jbpm/identity/User.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/identity/Group.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/identity/Membership.hbm.xml"/>         <mapping resource="org/jbpm/db/hibernate.queries.hbm.xml" />  <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/action/MailAction.hbm.xml"/>  <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/def/ProcessDefinition.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/def/Node.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/def/Transition.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/def/Event.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/def/Action.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/def/SuperState.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/def/ExceptionHandler.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/instantiation/Delegation.hbm.xml"/>  <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/node/StartState.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/node/EndState.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/node/ProcessState.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/node/Decision.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/node/Fork.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/node/Join.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/node/MailNode.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/node/State.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/node/TaskNode.hbm.xml"/>  <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/def/ContextDefinition.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/def/VariableAccess.hbm.xml"/>  <mapping resource="org/jbpm/taskmgmt/def/TaskMgmtDefinition.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/taskmgmt/def/Swimlane.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/taskmgmt/def/Task.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/taskmgmt/def/TaskController.hbm.xml"/>  <mapping resource="org/jbpm/module/def/ModuleDefinition.hbm.xml"/>  <mapping resource="org/jbpm/bytes/ByteArray.hbm.xml"/>  <mapping resource="org/jbpm/file/def/FileDefinition.hbm.xml"/>  <mapping resource="org/jbpm/scheduler/def/CreateTimerAction.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/scheduler/def/CancelTimerAction.hbm.xml"/>  <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/exe/Comment.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/exe/ProcessInstance.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/exe/Token.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/exe/RuntimeAction.hbm.xml"/>  <mapping resource="org/jbpm/module/exe/ModuleInstance.hbm.xml"/>  <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/exe/ContextInstance.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/exe/TokenVariableMap.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/exe/VariableInstance.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/exe/variableinstance/ByteArrayInstance.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/exe/variableinstance/DateInstance.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/exe/variableinstance/DoubleInstance.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/exe/variableinstance/HibernateLongInstance.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/exe/variableinstance/HibernateStringInstance.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/exe/variableinstance/LongInstance.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/exe/variableinstance/NullInstance.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/exe/variableinstance/StringInstance.hbm.xml"/>  <mapping resource="org/jbpm/job/Job.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/job/Timer.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/job/ExecuteNodeJob.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/job/ExecuteActionJob.hbm.xml"/>  <mapping resource="org/jbpm/taskmgmt/exe/TaskMgmtInstance.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/taskmgmt/exe/TaskInstance.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/taskmgmt/exe/PooledActor.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/taskmgmt/exe/SwimlaneInstance.hbm.xml"/>  <mapping resource="org/jbpm/logging/log/ProcessLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/logging/log/MessageLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/logging/log/CompositeLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/log/ActionLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/log/NodeLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/log/ProcessInstanceCreateLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/log/ProcessInstanceEndLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/log/ProcessStateLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/log/SignalLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/log/TokenCreateLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/log/TokenEndLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/graph/log/TransitionLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/log/VariableLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/log/VariableCreateLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/log/VariableDeleteLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/log/VariableUpdateLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/log/variableinstance/ByteArrayUpdateLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/log/variableinstance/DateUpdateLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/log/variableinstance/DoubleUpdateLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/log/variableinstance/HibernateLongUpdateLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/log/variableinstance/HibernateStringUpdateLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/log/variableinstance/LongUpdateLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/context/log/variableinstance/StringUpdateLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/taskmgmt/log/TaskLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/taskmgmt/log/TaskCreateLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/taskmgmt/log/TaskAssignLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/taskmgmt/log/TaskEndLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/taskmgmt/log/SwimlaneLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/taskmgmt/log/SwimlaneCreateLog.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="org/jbpm/taskmgmt/log/SwimlaneAssignLog.hbm.xml"/> </session-factory> </hibernate-configuration> ---- edit --- I have already tried the hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class to set to the JBoss version (org.hibernate.transaction.JBossTransactionManagerLookup) it did not work...well it's not that suprising...I'll try now: org.hibernate.transaction.OC4JTransactionManagerLookup I tried with CMT instead of JTA, but it didn't work also.

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SQL SERVER – Guest Post by Sandip Pani – SQL Server Statistics Name and Index Creation

- by pinaldave

Sometimes something very small or a common error which we observe in daily life teaches us new things. SQL Server Expert Sandip Pani (winner of Joes 2 Pros Contests) has come across similar experience. Sandip has written a guest post on an error he faced in his daily work. Sandip is working for QSI Healthcare as an Associate Technical Specialist and have more than 5 years of total experience. He blogs at SQLcommitted.com and contribute in various forums. His social media hands are LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Once I faced following error when I was working on performance tuning project and attempt to create an Index. Mug 1913, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 The operation failed because an index or statistics with name ‘Ix_Table1_1′ already exists on table ‘Table1′. The immediate reaction to the error was that I might have created that index earlier and when I researched it further I found the same as the index was indeed created two times. This totally makes sense. This can happen due to many reasons for example if the user is careless and executes the same code two times as well, when he attempts to create index without checking if there was index already on the object. However when I paid attention to the details of the error, I realize that error message also talks about statistics along with the index. I got curious if the same would happen if I attempt to create indexes with the same name as statistics already created. There are a few other questions also prompted in my mind. I decided to do a small demonstration of the subject and build following demonstration script. The goal of my experiment is to find out the relation between statistics and the index. Statistics is one of the important input parameter for the optimizer during query optimization process. If the query is nontrivial then only optimizer uses statistics to perform a cost based optimization to select a plan. For accuracy and further learning I suggest to read MSDN. Now let’s find out the relationship between index and statistics. We will do the experiment in two parts. i) Creating Index ii) Creating Statistics We will be using the following T-SQL script for our example. IF (OBJECT_ID('Table1') IS NOT NULL) DROP TABLE Table1 GO CREATE TABLE Table1 (Col1 INT NOT NULL, Col2 VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL) GO We will be using following two queries to check if there are any index or statistics on our sample table Table1. -- Details of Index SELECT OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID) AS TableName, Name AS IndexName, type_desc FROM sys.indexes WHERE OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID) = 'table1' GO -- Details of Statistics SELECT OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID) TableName, Name AS StatisticsName FROM sys.stats WHERE OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID) = 'table1' GO When I ran above two scripts on the table right after it was created it did not give us any result which was expected. Now let us begin our test. 1) Create an index on the table Create following index on the table. CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX Ix_Table1_1 ON Table1(Col1) GO Now let us use above two scripts and see their results. We can see that when we created index at the same time it created statistics also with the same name. Before continuing to next set of demo – drop the table using following script and re-create the table using a script provided at the beginning of the table. DROP TABLE table1 GO 2) Create a statistic on the table Create following statistics on the table. CREATE STATISTICS Ix_table1_1 ON Table1 (Col1) GO Now let us use above two scripts and see their results. We can see that when we created statistics Index is not created. The behavior of this experiment is different from the earlier experiment. Clean up the table setup using the following script: DROP TABLE table1 GO Above two experiments teach us very valuable lesson that when we create indexes, SQL Server generates the index and statistics (with the same name as the index name) together. Now due to the reason if we have already had statistics with the same name but not the index, it is quite possible that we will face the error to create the index even though there is no index with the same name. A Quick Check To validate that if we create statistics first and then index after that with the same name, it will throw an error let us run following script in SSMS. Make sure to drop the table and clean up our sample table at the end of the experiment. -- Create sample table CREATE TABLE TestTable (Col1 INT NOT NULL, Col2 VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL) GO -- Create Statistics CREATE STATISTICS IX_TestTable_1 ON TestTable (Col1) GO -- Create Index CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX IX_TestTable_1 ON TestTable(Col1) GO -- Check error /*Msg 1913, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 The operation failed because an index or statistics with name 'IX_TestTable_1' already exists on table 'TestTable'. */ -- Clean up DROP TABLE TestTable GO While creating index it will throw the following error as statistics with the same name is already created. In simple words – when we create index the name of the index should be different from any of the existing indexes and statistics. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Filed under: PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Error Messages, SQL Index, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology Tagged: SQL Statistics

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ASP.NET Web API - Screencast series Part 3: Delete and Update

- by Jon Galloway

We're continuing a six part series on ASP.NET Web API that accompanies the getting started screencast series. This is an introductory screencast series that walks through from File / New Project to some more advanced scenarios like Custom Validation and Authorization. The screencast videos are all short (3-5 minutes) and the sample code for the series is both available for download and browsable online. I did the screencasts, but the samples were written by the ASP.NET Web API team. In Part 1 we looked at what ASP.NET Web API is, why you'd care, did the File / New Project thing, and did some basic HTTP testing using browser F12 developer tools. In Part 2 we started to build up a sample that returns data from a repository in JSON format via GET methods. In Part 3, we'll start to modify data on the server using DELETE and POST methods. So far we've been looking at GET requests, and the difference between standard browsing in a web browser and navigating an HTTP API isn't quite as clear. Delete is where the difference becomes more obvious. With a "traditional" web page, to delete something'd probably have a form that POSTs a request back to a controller that needs to know that it's really supposed to be deleting something even though POST was really designed to create things, so it does the work and then returns some HTML back to the client that says whether or not the delete succeeded. There's a good amount of plumbing involved in communicating between client and server. That gets a lot easier when we just work with the standard HTTP DELETE verb. Here's how the server side code works: public Comment DeleteComment(int id) { Comment comment; if (!repository.TryGet(id, out comment)) throw new HttpResponseException(HttpStatusCode.NotFound); repository.Delete(id); return comment; } If you look back at the GET /api/comments code in Part 2, you'll see that they start the exact same because the use cases are kind of similar - we're looking up an item by id and either displaying it or deleting it. So the only difference is that this method deletes the comment once it finds it. We don't need to do anything special to handle cases where the id isn't found, as the same HTTP 404 handling works fine here, too. Pretty much all "traditional" browsing uses just two HTTP verbs: GET and POST, so you might not be all that used to DELETE requests and think they're hard. Not so! Here's the jQuery method that calls the /api/comments with the DELETE verb: $(function() { $("a.delete").live('click', function () { var id = $(this).data('comment-id'); $.ajax({ url: "/api/comments/" + id, type: 'DELETE', cache: false, statusCode: { 200: function(data) { viewModel.comments.remove( function(comment) { return comment.ID == data.ID; } ); } } }); return false; }); }); So in order to use the DELETE verb instead of GET, we're just using $.ajax() and setting the type to DELETE. Not hard. But what's that statusCode business? Well, an HTTP status code of 200 is an OK response. Unless our Web API method sets another status (such as by throwing the Not Found exception we saw earlier), the default response status code is HTTP 200 - OK. That makes the jQuery code pretty simple - it calls the Delete action, and if it gets back an HTTP 200, the server-side delete was successful so the comment can be deleted. Adding a new comment uses the POST verb. It starts out looking like an MVC controller action, using model binding to get the new comment from JSON data into a c# model object to add to repository, but there are some interesting differences. public HttpResponseMessage<Comment> PostComment(Comment comment) { comment = repository.Add(comment); var response = new HttpResponseMessage<Comment>(comment, HttpStatusCode.Created); response.Headers.Location = new Uri(Request.RequestUri, "/api/comments/" + comment.ID.ToString()); return response; } First off, the POST method is returning an HttpResponseMessage<Comment>. In the GET methods earlier, we were just returning a JSON payload with an HTTP 200 OK, so we could just return the model object and Web API would wrap it up in an HttpResponseMessage with that HTTP 200 for us (much as ASP.NET MVC controller actions can return strings, and they'll be automatically wrapped in a ContentResult). When we're creating a new comment, though, we want to follow standard REST practices and return the URL that points to the newly created comment in the Location header, and we can do that by explicitly creating that HttpResposeMessage and then setting the header information. And here's a key point - by using HTTP standard status codes and headers, our response payload doesn't need to explain any context - the client can see from the status code that the POST succeeded, the location header tells it where to get it, and all it needs in the JSON payload is the actual content. Note: This is a simplified sample. Among other things, you'll need to consider security and authorization in your Web API's, and especially in methods that allow creating or deleting data. We'll look at authorization in Part 6. As for security, you'll want to consider things like mass assignment if binding directly to model objects, etc. In Part 4, we'll extend on our simple querying methods form Part 2, adding in support for paging and querying.

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Error when trying to compile abgx360: C++ compiler cannot create executables

- by era878

I am trying to compile the abgx360 GUI. First I run home/eric/Desktop/abgx360-1.0.5/configure but I recieve this error: checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details. Then i run make but I recieve this error: make: * No rule to make target `/home/eric/Desktop/abgx360-1.0.5/Makefile.am', needed by `/home/eric/Desktop/abgx360-1.0.5/Makefile.in'. Stop. Here is my 'config.log': This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. It was created by abgx360gui configure 1.0.2, which was generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61. Invocation command line was $ /home/eric/Desktop/abgx360gui-1.0.2/configure ## --------- ## ## Platform. ## ## --------- ## hostname = Eric-Desktop uname -m = x86_64 uname -r = 2.6.35-27-generic uname -s = Linux uname -v = #48-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 22 20:25:46 UTC 2011 /usr/bin/uname -p = unknown /bin/uname -X = unknown /bin/arch = unknown /usr/bin/arch -k = unknown /usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown /usr/bin/hostinfo = unknown /bin/machine = unknown /usr/bin/oslevel = unknown /bin/universe = unknown PATH: /usr/local/sbin PATH: /usr/local/bin PATH: /usr/sbin PATH: /usr/bin PATH: /sbin PATH: /bin PATH: /usr/games ## ----------- ## ## Core tests. ## ## ----------- ## configure:1800: checking for a BSD-compatible install configure:1856: result: /usr/bin/install -c configure:1867: checking whether build environment is sane configure:1910: result: yes configure:1938: checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p configure:1977: result: /bin/mkdir -p configure:1990: checking for gawk configure:2020: result: no configure:1990: checking for mawk configure:2006: found /usr/bin/mawk configure:2017: result: mawk configure:2028: checking whether make sets $(MAKE) configure:2049: result: yes configure:2302: checking for g++ configure:2332: result: no configure:2302: checking for c++ configure:2332: result: no configure:2302: checking for gpp configure:2332: result: no configure:2302: checking for aCC configure:2332: result: no configure:2302: checking for CC configure:2332: result: no configure:2302: checking for cxx configure:2332: result: no configure:2302: checking for cc++ configure:2332: result: no configure:2302: checking for cl.exe configure:2332: result: no configure:2302: checking for FCC configure:2332: result: no configure:2302: checking for KCC configure:2332: result: no configure:2302: checking for RCC configure:2332: result: no configure:2302: checking for xlC_r configure:2332: result: no configure:2302: checking for xlC configure:2332: result: no configure:2360: checking for C++ compiler version configure:2367: g++ --version >&5 /home/eric/Desktop/abgx360gui-1.0.2/configure: line 2368: g++: command not found configure:2370: $? = 127 configure:2377: g++ -v >&5 /home/eric/Desktop/abgx360gui-1.0.2/configure: line 2378: g++: command not found configure:2380: $? = 127 configure:2387: g++ -V >&5 /home/eric/Desktop/abgx360gui-1.0.2/configure: line 2388: g++: command not found configure:2390: $? = 127 configure:2413: checking for C++ compiler default output file name configure:2440: g++ conftest.cpp >&5 /home/eric/Desktop/abgx360gui-1.0.2/configure: line 2441: g++: command not found configure:2443: $? = 127 configure:2481: result: configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ | #define PACKAGE_NAME "abgx360gui" | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "abgx360gui" | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.0.2" | #define PACKAGE_STRING "abgx360gui 1.0.2" | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "" | #define PACKAGE "abgx360gui" | #define VERSION "1.0.2" | /* end confdefs.h. */ | | int | main () | { | | ; | return 0; | } configure:2488: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details. ## ---------------- ## ## Cache variables. ## ## ---------------- ## ac_cv_env_CCC_set= ac_cv_env_CCC_value= ac_cv_env_CC_set= ac_cv_env_CC_value= ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set= ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value= ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set= ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value= ac_cv_env_CPP_set= ac_cv_env_CPP_value= ac_cv_env_CXXFLAGS_set= ac_cv_env_CXXFLAGS_value= ac_cv_env_CXX_set= ac_cv_env_CXX_value= ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_set= ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_value= ac_cv_env_LIBS_set= ac_cv_env_LIBS_value= ac_cv_env_build_alias_set= ac_cv_env_build_alias_value= ac_cv_env_host_alias_set= ac_cv_env_host_alias_value= ac_cv_env_target_alias_set= ac_cv_env_target_alias_value= ac_cv_path_install='/usr/bin/install -c' ac_cv_path_mkdir=/bin/mkdir ac_cv_prog_AWK=mawk ac_cv_prog_make_make_set=yes ## ----------------- ## ## Output variables. ## ## ----------------- ## ACLOCAL='${SHELL} /home/eric/Desktop/abgx360gui-1.0.2/missing --run aclocal-1.10' AMDEPBACKSLASH='' AMDEP_FALSE='' AMDEP_TRUE='' AMTAR='${SHELL} /home/eric/Desktop/abgx360gui-1.0.2/missing --run tar' AUTOCONF='${SHELL} /home/eric/Desktop/abgx360gui-1.0.2/missing --run autoconf' AUTOHEADER='${SHELL} /home/eric/Desktop/abgx360gui-1.0.2/missing --run autoheader' AUTOMAKE='${SHELL} /home/eric/Desktop/abgx360gui-1.0.2/missing --run automake-1.10' AWK='mawk' CC='' CCDEPMODE='' CFLAGS='' CPP='' CPPFLAGS='' CXX='g++' CXXDEPMODE='' CXXFLAGS='' CYGPATH_W='echo' DEFS='' DEPDIR='' ECHO_C='' ECHO_N='-n' ECHO_T='' EGREP='' EXEEXT='' GREP='' INSTALL_DATA='${INSTALL} -m 644' INSTALL_PROGRAM='${INSTALL}' INSTALL_SCRIPT='${INSTALL}' INSTALL_STRIP_PROGRAM='$(install_sh) -c -s' LDFLAGS='' LIBOBJS='' LIBS='' LTLIBOBJS='' MAKEINFO='${SHELL} /home/eric/Desktop/abgx360gui-1.0.2/missing --run makeinfo' OBJEXT='' PACKAGE='abgx360gui' PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='' PACKAGE_NAME='abgx360gui' PACKAGE_STRING='abgx360gui 1.0.2' PACKAGE_TARNAME='abgx360gui' PACKAGE_VERSION='1.0.2' PATH_SEPARATOR=':' SET_MAKE='' SHELL='/bin/bash' STRIP='' VERSION='1.0.2' WX_CFLAGS='' WX_CFLAGS_ONLY='' WX_CONFIG_PATH='' WX_CPPFLAGS='' WX_CXXFLAGS='' WX_CXXFLAGS_ONLY='' WX_LIBS='' WX_LIBS_STATIC='' WX_RESCOMP='' WX_VERSION='' ac_ct_CC='' ac_ct_CXX='' am__fastdepCC_FALSE='' am__fastdepCC_TRUE='' am__fastdepCXX_FALSE='' am__fastdepCXX_TRUE='' am__include='' am__isrc=' -I$(srcdir)' am__leading_dot='.' am__quote='' am__tar='${AMTAR} chof - "$$tardir"' am__untar='${AMTAR} xf -' bindir='${exec_prefix}/bin' build_alias='' datadir='${datarootdir}' datarootdir='${prefix}/share' docdir='${datarootdir}/doc/${PACKAGE_TARNAME}' dvidir='${docdir}' exec_prefix='NONE' host_alias='' htmldir='${docdir}' includedir='${prefix}/include' infodir='${datarootdir}/info' install_sh='$(SHELL) /home/eric/Desktop/abgx360gui-1.0.2/install-sh' libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib' libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/libexec' localedir='${datarootdir}/locale' localstatedir='${prefix}/var' mandir='${datarootdir}/man' mkdir_p='/bin/mkdir -p' oldincludedir='/usr/include' pdfdir='${docdir}' prefix='NONE' program_transform_name='s,x,x,' psdir='${docdir}' sbindir='${exec_prefix}/sbin' sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com' sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc' target_alias='' ## ----------- ## ## confdefs.h. ## ## ----------- ## #define PACKAGE_NAME "abgx360gui" #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "abgx360gui" #define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.0.2" #define PACKAGE_STRING "abgx360gui 1.0.2" #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "" #define PACKAGE "abgx360gui" #define VERSION "1.0.2" configure: exit 77

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SQL Saturday #44 Huntington Beach Recap

What a great day. It was long and tiring, but rewarding in so many ways. On Sunday morning, I was driving home and I decided to take the Pacific Coast Highway from Huntington Beach. It was a great chance to exhale and just enjoy the sun and smells of the beach (I really love SoCal sometimes). And for future reference for all you speakers, the beach and ocean are only 5 minutes from the SQL Saturday location. I just could help noticing also the shocking number of high priced cars on the road (4 Bentleys, 3 Ferraris, 1 Aston Martins, 3 Maserati, 1 Rolls Royce, and 2 Lamborghinis). It made me think about this: Price of all those cars: $ 150,000+. Impacting the ability of people to learn: Priceless. We have positively impacted the education, knowledge, capabilities of not only our attendees, but also all of their companies and people they might help as well. That is just staggering and something to be immensely proud of. To all of my fellow community leaders, I salute you. So lets talk about the event Overall We had over 220 people register for the event and had 180+ people attend the event. I was shooting for the magical 200 number, but I guess it just gives us more motivation to make it even bigger and better next time. We had a few snags along the way, but what event doesnt, but I think everything turned out great. I did not hear any negative comments and heard lots of positive comments along with people asking when the next one is going to be (More on that later). Location- Golden West College We could not have asked for a better partner for the event. Herb Cohen from Golden West College was the wizard behind the curtains. From the beginning, he was our advocate to the GWC Board and was instrumental in getting our event approved. The day off, Herb was a HUGE help getting any and all logistics that we needed taken care of. In the craziness of the early morning registration crush it was a big help knowing that he and Bret Stateham (Blog | Twitter) were taking care of testing projectors in all the rooms. Anything we needed he was there and was even proactive in getting some things that I had not even thought of (i.e. a dumpster for all of our garbage). I cannot thank Herb enough along with other members of the GWC staff including Minnie Higgins of the Career and Technical Education Division office, Jack Taylor, public safety, and Ron Pryor, Tech Services Support. And last, but not least, the Wireless on campus was absolutely FANTASTIC! Some lessons learned Unless you are a glutton for punishment, as I no doubt am, you most certainly want to give yourself more than six weeks to plan the event. I am lucky that I have a very understanding wife and had a wonderful set of co-coordinators helping me out. A big thanks goes out to Phil, Marlon (Blog | Twitter), Nitin (Twitter), Thomas (Blog | Twitter), Bret (Blog | Twitter), Ben, and Laurie. Thankfully, the sponsor and speaker community was hugely supportive and we were able to fill out the entire event with speakers and sponsors. I have to say that there is not a lot that I would change after this years event. There are obviously going to be some things that we can do better or differently next time, but overall I think it was a great event and I was more than happy with the response we received from the community. Sponsors We obviously could not have put together our event without our sponsors. So certainly have to show them some love. Platinum Sponsors Quest Software http://www.quest.com My Space http://www.myspace.com/ Gold Strategy Companion http://www.strategycompanion.com Silver Fusion-IO http://www.fusionio.com Bronze WestClinTech http://westclintech.com Professional Association For SQL Server http://www.sqlpass.org Attunity http://www.attunity.com Sharepoint 360 http://www.sharepoint360.com Some additional Thanks Andy Warren (Blog | Twitter) Always there to answer my question and help out when I had some issues or questions with the website. The amount of work that he and everyone else put into SQL Saturday is very amazing. What a great gift to the community! Einstein Bros. Bagels They were our Breakfast Vendor and arrived perfectly on time with yummy bagels, sweets and most importantly coffee. Luccis Deli (http://www.luccisdeli.com) Luccis was out Lunch Vendor. They were great to work with and the food was excellent. They worked with us to give us a great price. Heard lots of great comments about the lunches. Definitely not your ordinary box lunch. Moving Forward Unfortunately, the work does not end after the event. We have a few things to clear up such as surveys, sponsor stuff, presentations uploaded to the website, expense reimbursement, stuff like that. Hopefully, all that should be cleared up within the next couple weeks. After that as a group we are going to get together and decide what our next steps are. We definitely want to keep some of the momentum that we are building as a SQL Community and channel that into future SQL Saturdays and other types of community events. In the meantime, for additional training be sure to check out your local User Group and PASS. San Diego SQL Server Users Group ( http://www.sdsqlug.org/home/index.cfm ) Orange County SQL Server Users Group ( http://www.sqloc.com/ ) L.A. SQL Server Users Group ( http://www.sql.la/ ) SQL PASS ( http://www.sqlpass.org/ ) 24 Hours of PASS ( http://www.sqlpass.org/24hours/2010/ ) So stay tuned, there will be more events to come in SoCal!!Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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Juniper Strategy, LLC is hiring SharePoint Developers…

- by Mark Rackley

Isn’t everybody these days? It seems as though there are definitely more jobs than qualified devs these days, but yes, we are looking for a few good devs to help round out our burgeoning SharePoint team. Juniper Strategy is located in the DC area, however we will consider remote devs for the right fit. This is your chance to get in on the ground floor of a bright company that truly “gets it” when it comes to SharePoint, Project Management, and Information Assurance. We need like-minded people who “get it”, enjoy it, and who are looking for more than just a job. We have government and commercial opportunities as well as our own internal product that has a bright future of its own. Our immediate needs are for SharePoint .NET developers, but feel free to submit your resume for us to keep on file as it looks as though we’ll need several people in the coming months. Please email us your resume and salary requirements to [email protected] Below are our official job postings. Thanks for stopping by, we look forward to hearing from you. Senior SharePoint .NET Developer Senior developer will focus on design and coding of custom, end-to-end business process solutions within the SharePoint framework. Senior developer with the ability to serve as a senior developer/mentor and manage day-to-day development tasks. Work with business consultants and clients to gather requirements to prepare business functional specifications. Analyze and recommend technical/development alternative paths based on business functional specifications. For selected development path, prepare technical specification and build the solution. Assist project manager with defining development task schedule and level-of-effort. Lead technical solution deployment. Job Requirements Minimum of 7 years experience in agile development, with at least 3 years of SharePoint-related development experience (SPS, SharePoint 2007/2010, WSS2-4). Thorough understanding of and demonstrated experience in development under the SharePoint Object Model, with focus on the WSS 3.0 foundation (MOSS 2007 Standard/Enterprise, Project Server 2007). Experience with using multiple data sources/repositories for database CRUD activities, including relational databases, SAP, Oracle e-Business. Experience with designing and deploying performance-based solutions in SharePoint for business processes that involve a very large number of records. Experience designing dynamic dashboards and mashups with data from multiple sources (internal to SharePoint as well as from external sources). Experience designing custom forms to facilitate user data entry, both with and without leveraging Forms Services. Experience building custom web part solutions. Experience with designing custom solutions for processing underlying business logic requirements including, but not limited to, SQL stored procedures, C#/ASP.Net workflows/event handlers (including timer jobs) to support multi-tiered decision trees and associated computations. Ability to create complex solution packages for deployment (e.g., feature-stapled site definitions). Must have impeccable communication skills, both written and verbal. Seeking a "tinkerer"; proactive with a thirst for knowledge (and a sense of humor). A US Citizen is required, and need to be able to pass NAC/E-Verify. An active Secret clearance is preferred. Applicants must pass a skills assessment test. MCP/MCTS or comparable certification preferred. Salary & Travel Negotiable SharePoint Project Lead Define project task schedule, work breakdown structure and level-of-effort. Serve as principal liaison to the customer to manage deliverables and expectations. Day-to-day project and team management, including preparation and maintenance of project plans, budgets, and status reports. Prepare technical briefings and presentation decks, provide briefs to C-level stakeholders. Work with business consultants and clients to gather requirements to prepare business functional specifications. Analyze and recommend technical/development alternative paths based on business functional specifications. The SharePoint Project Lead will be working with SharePoint architects and system owners to perform requirements/gap analysis and develop the underlying functional specifications. Once we have functional specifications as close to "final" as possible, the Project Lead will be responsible for preparation of the associated technical specification/development blueprint, along with assistance in preparing IV&V/test plan materials with support from other team members. This person will also be responsible for day-to-day management of "developers", but is also expected to engage in development directly as needed. Job Requirements Minimum 8 years of technology project management across the software development life-cycle, with a minimum of 3 years of project management relating specifically to SharePoint (SPS 2003, SharePoint2007/2010) and/or Project Server. Thorough understanding of and demonstrated experience in development under the SharePoint Object Model, with focus on the WSS 3.0 foundation (MOSS 2007 Standard/Enterprise, Project Server 2007). Ability to interact and collaborate effectively with team members and stakeholders of different skill sets, personalities and needs. General "development" skill set required is a fundamental understanding of MOSS 2007 Enterprise, SP1/SP2, from the top-level of skinning to the core of the SharePoint object model. Impeccable communication skills, both written and verbal, and a sense of humor are required. The projects will require being at a client site at least 50% of the time in Washington DC (NW DC) and Maryland (near Suitland). A US Citizen is required, and need to be able to pass NAC/E-Verify. An active Secret clearance is preferred. PMP certification, PgMP preferred. Salary & Travel Negotiable

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And the Winners of Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards in Data Integration are…

- by Irem Radzik

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Raymond James and Morrison Supermarkets were selected for the data integration category for their innovative use of Oracle’s data integration products and the great results they have achieved. In this blog I would like to briefly introduce you to these award winning projects. Raymond James is a diversified financial services company, which provides financial planning, wealth management, investment banking, and asset management. They are using Oracle GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator to feed their operational data store (ODS), which supports application services across the enterprise. A major requirement for their project was low data latency, as key decisions are made based on the data in the ODS. They were able to fulfill this requirement due to the Oracle Data Integrator’s integrated solution with Oracle GoldenGate. Oracle GoldenGate captures changed data from different systems including Oracle Database, HP NonStop and Microsoft SQL Server into a single data store on SQL Server 2008. Oracle Data Integrator provides data transformations for the ODS. Leveraging ODI’s integration with GoldenGate, Raymond James now sees a 9 second median latency (from source commit to ODS target commit). The ODS solution delivers high quality, accurate data for consuming applications such as Raymond James’ next generation client and portfolio management systems as well as real-time operational reporting. It enables timely information for making better decisions. There are more benefits Raymond James achieved with this implementation of Oracle’s data integration solution. The software developers and architects of this solution, Tim Garrod and Ryan Fonnett, have told us during their presentation at OpenWorld that they also reduced application complexity significantly while improving developer productivity through trusted operational services. They were able to utilize CDC to generate alerts for business users, and for applications (for example for cache hydration mechanisms). One cool innovation example among many in this project is that using ODI's flexible architecture, Tim and Ryan could build 24/7 self-healing processes. And these processes have hardly failed. Integration processes fixes the errors itself. Pretty amazing; and a great solution for environments that need such reliability and availability. (You can see Tim and Ryan’s photo with the Innovation Award above.) The other winner of this year in the data integration category, Morrison Supermarkets, is the UK’s 4th largest grocery retailer. The company has been migrating all their legacy applications on to a new-world application set based on Oracle and consolidating all BI on to a single Oracle platform. The company recently implemented Oracle Exadata as the data warehouse engine and uses Oracle Business Intelligence EE. Their goal with deploying GoldenGate and ODI was to provide BI data to the enterprise in a way that it also supports operational decision making requirements from a wide range of Oracle based ERP applications such as E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Oracle Retail Suite. They use GoldenGate’s log-based change data capture capabilities and Oracle Data Integrator to populate the Oracle Retail Data Model. The electronic point of sale (EPOS) integration solution they built processes over 80 million transactions/day at busy periods in near real time (15 mins). It provides valuable insight to Retail and Commercial teams for both intra-day and historical trend analysis. As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog, the right data integration platform can transform the business. Here is another example: The point-of-sale integration enabled the grocery chain to optimize its stock management, leading to another award: Morrisons won the Grocer 33 award in 2012 - beating all other major UK supermarkets in product availability. Congratulations, Morrisons,on another award! Celebrating the innovation and the success of our customers with Oracle’s data integration products was definitely a highlight of Oracle OpenWorld for me. I look forward to hearing more from Raymond James, Morrisons, and the other customers that presented their data integration projects at OpenWorld, on how they are creating more value for their organizations.

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World Record Oracle Business Intelligence Benchmark on SPARC T4-4

- by Brian

Oracle's SPARC T4-4 server configured with four SPARC T4 3.0 GHz processors delivered the first and best performance of 25,000 concurrent users on Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (BI EE) 11g benchmark using Oracle Database 11g Release 2 running on Oracle Solaris 10. A SPARC T4-4 server running Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g achieved 25,000 concurrent users with an average response time of 0.36 seconds with Oracle BI server cache set to ON. The benchmark data clearly shows that the underlying hardware, SPARC T4 server, and the Oracle BI EE 11g (11.1.1.6.0 64-bit) platform scales within a single system supporting 25,000 concurrent users while executing 415 transactions/sec. The benchmark demonstrated the scalability of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g 11.1.1.6.0, which was deployed in a vertical scale-out fashion on a single SPARC T4-4 server. Oracle Internet Directory configured on SPARC T4 server provided authentication for the 25,000 Oracle BI EE users with sub-second response time. A SPARC T4-4 with internal Solid State Drive (SSD) using the ZFS file system showed significant I/O performance improvement over traditional disk for the Web Catalog activity. In addition, ZFS helped get past the UFS limitation of 32767 sub-directories in a Web Catalog directory. The multi-threaded 64-bit Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g and SPARC T4-4 server proved to be a successful combination by providing sub-second response times for the end user transactions, consuming only half of the available CPU resources at 25,000 concurrent users, leaving plenty of head room for increased load. The Oracle Business Intelligence on SPARC T4-4 server benchmark results demonstrate that comprehensive BI functionality built on a unified infrastructure with a unified business model yields best-in-class scalability, reliability and performance. Oracle BI EE 11g is a newer version of Business Intelligence Suite with richer and superior functionality. Results produced with Oracle BI EE 11g benchmark are not comparable to results with Oracle BI EE 10g benchmark. Oracle BI EE 11g is a more difficult benchmark to run, exercising more features of Oracle BI. Performance Landscape Results for the Oracle BI EE 11g version of the benchmark. Results are not comparable to the Oracle BI EE 10g version of the benchmark. Oracle BI EE 11g Benchmark System Number of Users Response Time (sec) 1 x SPARC T4-4 (4 x SPARC T4 3.0 GHz) 25,000 0.36 Results for the Oracle BI EE 10g version of the benchmark. Results are not comparable to the Oracle BI EE 11g version of the benchmark. Oracle BI EE 10g Benchmark System Number of Users 2 x SPARC T5440 (4 x SPARC T2+ 1.6 GHz) 50,000 1 x SPARC T5440 (4 x SPARC T2+ 1.6 GHz) 28,000 Configuration Summary Hardware Configuration: SPARC T4-4 server 4 x SPARC T4-4 processors, 3.0 GHz 128 GB memory 4 x 300 GB internal SSD Storage Configuration: "> Sun ZFS Storage 7120 16 x 146 GB disks Software Configuration: Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Oracle Solaris Studio 12.1 Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g (11.1.1.6.0) Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.5 Oracle Internet Directory 11.1.1.6.0 Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Benchmark Description Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (Oracle BI EE) delivers a robust set of reporting, ad-hoc query and analysis, OLAP, dashboard, and scorecard functionality with a rich end-user experience that includes visualization, collaboration, and more. The Oracle BI EE benchmark test used five different business user roles - Marketing Executive, Sales Representative, Sales Manager, Sales Vice-President, and Service Manager. These roles included a maximum of 5 different pre-built dashboards. Each dashboard page had an average of 5 reports in the form of a mix of charts, tables and pivot tables, returning anywhere from 50 rows to approximately 500 rows of aggregated data. The test scenario also included drill-down into multiple levels from a table or chart within a dashboard. The benchmark test scenario uses a typical business user sequence of dashboard navigation, report viewing, and drill down. For example, a Service Manager logs into the system and navigates to his own set of dashboards using Service Manager. The BI user selects the Service Effectiveness dashboard, which shows him four distinct reports, Service Request Trend, First Time Fix Rate, Activity Problem Areas, and Cost Per Completed Service Call spanning 2002 to 2005. The user then proceeds to view the Customer Satisfaction dashboard, which also contains a set of 4 related reports, drills down on some of the reports to see the detail data. The BI user continues to view more dashboards – Customer Satisfaction and Service Request Overview, for example. After navigating through those dashboards, the user logs out of the application. The benchmark test is executed against a full production version of the Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Applications with a fully populated underlying database schema. The business processes in the test scenario closely represent a real world customer scenario. See Also SPARC T4-4 Server oracle.com OTN Oracle Business Intelligence oracle.com OTN Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Enterprise Edition oracle.com OTN WebLogic Suite oracle.com OTN Oracle Solaris oracle.com OTN Disclosure Statement Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Results as of 30 September 2012.

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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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SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #005

- by pinaldave

Here is the list of curetted articles of SQLAuthority.com across all these years. Instead of just listing all the articles I have selected a few of my most favorite articles and have listed them here with additional notes below it. Let me know which one of the following is your favorite article from memory lane. 2006 SQL SERVER – Cursor to Kill All Process in Database I indeed wrote this cursor and when I often look back, I wonder how naive I was to write this. The reason for writing this cursor was to free up my database from any existing connection so I can do database operation. This worked fine but there can be a potentially big issue if there was any important transaction was killed by this process. There is another way to to achieve the same thing where we can use ALTER syntax to take database in single user mode. Read more about that over here and here. 2007 Rules of Third Normal Form and Normalization Advantage – 3NF The rules of 3NF are mentioned here Make a separate table for each set of related attributes, and give each table a primary key. If an attribute depends on only part of a multi-valued key, remove it to a separate table If attributes do not contribute to a description of the key, remove them to a separate table. Correct Syntax for Stored Procedure SP Sometime a simple question is the most important question. I often see in industry incorrectly written Stored Procedure. Few writes code after the most outer BEGIN…END and few writes code after the GO Statement. In this brief blog post, I have attempted to explain the same. 2008 Switch Between Result Pan and Query Pan – SQL Shortcut Many times when I am writing query I have to scroll the result displayed in the result set. Most of the developer uses the mouse to switch between and Query Pane and Result Pane. There are few developers who are crazy about Keyboard shortcuts. F6 is the keyword which can be used to switch between query pane and tabs of the result pane. Interesting Observation – Use of Index and Execution Plan Query Optimization is a complex game and it has its own rules. From the example in the article we have discovered that Query Optimizer does not use clustered index to retrieve data, sometime non clustered index provides optimal performance for retrieving Primary Key. When all the rows and columns are selected Primary Key should be used to select data as it provides optimal performance. 2009 Interesting Observation – TOP 100 PERCENT and ORDER BY If you pull up any application or system where there are more than 100 SQL Server Views are created – I am very confident that at one or two places you will notice the scenario wherein View the ORDER BY clause is used with TOP 100 PERCENT. SQL Server 2008 VIEW with ORDER BY clause does not throw an error; moreover, it does not acknowledge the presence of it as well. In this article we have taken three perfect examples and demonstrated which clause we should use when. Comma Separated Values (CSV) from Table Column A Very common question – How to create comma separated values from a table in the database? The answer is also very common if we use XML. Check out this article for quick learning on the same subject. Azure Start Guide – Step by Step Installation Guide Though Azure portal has changed a quite bit since I wrote this article, the concept used in this article are not old. They are still valid and many of the functions are still working as mentioned in the article. I believe this one article will put you on the track to use Azure! Size of Index Table for Each Index – Solution Earlier I have posted a small question on this blog and requested help from readers to participate here and provide a solution. The puzzle was to write a query that will return the size for each index that is on any particular table. We need a query that will return an additional column in the above listed query and it should contain the size of the index. This article presents two of the best solutions from the puzzle. 2010 Well, this week in 2010 was the week of puzzles as I posted three interesting puzzles. Till today I am noticing pretty good interesting in the puzzles. They are tricky but for sure brings a great value if you are a database developer for a long time. I suggest you go over this puzzles and their answers. Did you really know all of the answers? I am confident that reading following three blog post will for sure help you enhance the experience with T-SQL. SQL SERVER – Challenge – Puzzle – Usage of FAST Hint SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Challenge – Error While Converting Money to Decimal SQL SERVER – Challenge – Puzzle – Why does RIGHT JOIN Exists 2011 DVM sys.dm_os_sys_info Column Name Changed in SQL Server 2012 Have you ever faced a situation where something does not work? When you try to fix it - you enjoy fixing it and started to appreciate the breaking changes. Well, this was exactly I felt yesterday. Before I begin my story, I want to candidly state that I do not encourage anybody to use * in the SELECT statement. Now the disclaimer is over – I suggest you read the original story – you will love it! Get Directory Structure using Extended Stored Procedure xp_dirtree Here is the question to you – why would you do something in SQL Server where you can do the same task in command prompt much easily. Well, the answer is sometime there are real use cases when we have to do such thing. This is a similar example where I have demonstrated how in SQL Server 2012 we can use extended stored procedure to retrieve directory structure. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com) Filed under: Memory Lane, PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology

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Partition Wise Joins

- by jean-pierre.dijcks

Some say they are the holy grail of parallel computing and PWJ is the basis for a shared nothing system and the only join method that is available on a shared nothing system (yes this is oversimplified!). The magic in Oracle is of course that is one of many ways to join data. And yes, this is the old flexibility vs. simplicity discussion all over, so I won't go there... the point is that what you must do in a shared nothing system, you can do in Oracle with the same speed and methods. The Theory A partition wise join is a join between (for simplicity) two tables that are partitioned on the same column with the same partitioning scheme. In shared nothing this is effectively hard partitioning locating data on a specific node / storage combo. In Oracle is is logical partitioning. If you now join the two tables on that partitioned column you can break up the join in smaller joins exactly along the partitions in the data. Since they are partitioned (grouped) into the same buckets, all values required to do the join live in the equivalent bucket on either sides. No need to talk to anyone else, no need to redistribute data to anyone else... in short, the optimal join method for parallel processing of two large data sets. PWJ's in Oracle Since we do not hard partition the data across nodes in Oracle we use the Partitioning option to the database to create the buckets, then set the Degree of Parallelism (or run Auto DOP - see here) and get our PWJs. The main questions always asked are: How many partitions should I create? What should my DOP be? In a shared nothing system the answer is of course, as many partitions as there are nodes which will be your DOP. In Oracle we do want you to look at the workload and concurrency, and once you know that to understand the following rules of thumb. Within Oracle we have more ways of joining of data, so it is important to understand some of the PWJ ideas and what it means if you have an uneven distribution across processes. Assume we have a simple scenario where we partition the data on a hash key resulting in 4 hash partitions (H1 -H4). We have 2 parallel processes that have been tasked with reading these partitions (P1 - P2). The work is evenly divided assuming the partitions are the same size and we can scan this in time t1 as shown below. Now assume that we have changed the system and have a 5th partition but still have our 2 workers P1 and P2. The time it takes is actually 50% more assuming the 5th partition has the same size as the original H1 - H4 partitions. In other words to scan these 5 partitions, the time t2 it takes is not 1/5th more expensive, it is a lot more expensive and some other join plans may now start to look exciting to the optimizer. Just to post the disclaimer, it is not as simple as I state it here, but you get the idea on how much more expensive this plan may now look... Based on this little example there are a few rules of thumb to follow to get the partition wise joins. First, choose a DOP that is a factor of two (2). So always choose something like 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and so on... Second, choose a number of partitions that is larger or equal to 2* DOP. Third, make sure the number of partitions is divisible through 2 without orphans. This is also known as an even number... Fourth, choose a stable partition count strategy, which is typically hash, which can be a sub partitioning strategy rather than the main strategy (range - hash is a popular one). Fifth, make sure you do this on the join key between the two large tables you want to join (and this should be the obvious one...). Translating this into an example: DOP = 8 (determined based on concurrency or by using Auto DOP with a cap due to concurrency) says that the number of partitions >= 16. Number of hash (sub) partitions = 32, which gives each process four partitions to work on. This number is somewhat arbitrary and depends on your data and system. In this case my main reasoning is that if you get more room on the box you can easily move the DOP for the query to 16 without repartitioning... and of course it makes for no leftovers on the table... And yes, we recommend up-to-date statistics. And before you start complaining, do read this post on a cool way to do stats in 11.

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Independence Day for Software Components – Loosening Coupling by Reducing Connascence

- by Brian Schroer

Today is Independence Day in the USA, which got me thinking about loosely-coupled “independent” software components. I was reminded of a video I bookmarked quite a while ago of Jim Weirich’s “Grand Unified Theory of Software Design” talk at MountainWest RubyConf 2009. I finally watched that video this morning. I highly recommend it. In the video, Jim talks about software connascence. The dictionary definition of connascence (con-NAY-sense) is: 1. The common birth of two or more at the same time 2. That which is born or produced with another. 3. The act of growing together. The brief Wikipedia page about Connascent Software Components says that: Two software components are connascent if a change in one would require the other to be modified in order to maintain the overall correctness of the system. Connascence is a way to characterize and reason about certain types of complexity in software systems. The term was introduced to the software world in Meilir Page-Jones’ 1996 book “What Every Programmer Should Know About Object-Oriented Design”. The middle third of that book is the author’s proposed graphical notation for describing OO designs. UML became the standard about a year later, so a revised version of the book was published in 1999 as “Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Design in UML”. Weirich says that the third part of the book, in which Page-Jones introduces the concept of connascence “is worth the price of the entire book”. (The price of the entire book, by the way, is not much – I just bought a used copy on Amazon for $1.36, so that was a pretty low-risk investment. I’m looking forward to getting the book and learning about connascence from the original source.) Meanwhile, here’s my summary of Weirich’s summary of Page-Jones writings about connascence: The stronger the form of connascence, the more difficult and costly it is to change the elements in the relationship. Some of the connascence types, ordered from weak to strong are: Connascence of Name Connascence of name is when multiple components must agree on the name of an entity. If you change the name of a method or property, then you need to change all references to that method or property. Duh. Connascence of name is unavoidable, assuming your objects are actually used. My main takeaway about connascence of name is that it emphasizes the importance of giving things good names so you don’t need to go changing them later. Connascence of Type Connascence of type is when multiple components must agree on the type of an entity. I assume this is more of a problem for languages without compilers (especially when used in apps without tests). I know it’s an issue with evil JavaScript type coercion. Connascence of Meaning Connascence of meaning is when multiple components must agree on the meaning of particular values, e.g that “1” means normal customer and “2” means preferred customer. The solution to this is to use constants or enums instead of “magic” strings or numbers, which reduces the coupling by changing the connascence form from “meaning” to “name”. Connascence of Position Connascence of positions is when multiple components must agree on the order of values. This refers to methods with multiple parameters, e.g.: eMailer.Send("[email protected]", "[email protected]", "Your order is complete", "Order completion notification"); The more parameters there are, the stronger the connascence of position is between the component and its callers. In the example above, it’s not immediately clear when reading the code which email addresses are sender and receiver, and which of the final two strings are subject vs. body. Connascence of position could be improved to connascence of type by replacing the parameter list with a struct or class. This “introduce parameter object” refactoring might be overkill for a method with 2 parameters, but would definitely be an improvement for a method with 10 parameters. This points out two “rules” of connascence: The Rule of Degree: The acceptability of connascence is related to the degree of its occurrence. The Rule of Locality: Stronger forms of connascence are more acceptable if the elements involved are closely related. For example, positional arguments in private methods are less problematic than in public methods. Connascence of Algorithm Connascence of algorithm is when multiple components must agree on a particular algorithm. Be DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself. If you have “cloned” code in multiple locations, refactor it into a common function. Those are the “static” forms of connascence. There are also “dynamic” forms, including… Connascence of Execution Connascence of execution is when the order of execution of multiple components is important. Consumers of your class shouldn’t have to know that they have to call an .Initialize method before it’s safe to call a .DoSomething method. Connascence of Timing Connascence of timing is when the timing of the execution of multiple components is important. I’ll have to read up on this one when I get the book, but assume it’s largely about threading. Connascence of Identity Connascence of identity is when multiple components must reference the entity. The example Weirich gives is when you have two instances of the “Bob” Employee class and you call the .RaiseSalary method on one and then the .Pay method on the other does the payment use the updated salary? Again, this is my summary of a summary, so please be forgiving if I misunderstood anything. Once I get/read the book, I’ll make corrections if necessary and share any other useful information I might learn. See Also: Gregory Brown: Ruby Best Practices Issue #24: Connascence as a Software Design Metric (That link is failing at the time I write this, so I had to go to the Google cache of the page.)

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Measuring Usability with Common Industry Format (CIF) Usability Tests

- by Applications User Experience

Sean Rice, Manager, Applications User Experience A User-centered Research and Design Process The Oracle Fusion Applications user experience was five years in the making. The development of this suite included an extensive and comprehensive user experience design process: ethnographic research, low-fidelity workflow prototyping, high fidelity user interface (UI) prototyping, iterative formative usability testing, development feedback and iteration, and sales and customer evaluation throughout the design cycle. However, this process does not stop when our products are released. We conduct summative usability testing using the ISO 25062 Common Industry Format (CIF) for usability test reports as an organizational framework. CIF tests allow us to measure the overall usability of our released products. These studies provide benchmarks that allow for comparisons of a specific product release against previous versions of our product and against other products in the marketplace. What Is a CIF Usability Test? CIF refers to the internationally standardized method for reporting usability test findings used by the software industry. The CIF is based on a formal, lab-based test that is used to benchmark the usability of a product in terms of human performance and subjective data. The CIF was developed and is endorsed by more than 375 software customer and vendor organizations led by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), a US government entity. NIST sponsored the CIF through the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards-making processes. Oracle played a key role in developing the CIF. The CIF report format and metrics are consistent with the ISO 9241-11 definition of usability: “The extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use.” Our goal in conducting CIF tests is to measure performance and satisfaction of a representative sample of users on a set of core tasks and to help predict how usable a product will be with the larger population of customers. Why Do We Perform CIF Testing? The overarching purpose of the CIF for usability test reports is to promote incorporation of usability as part of the procurement decision-making process for interactive products. CIF provides a common format for vendors to report the methods and results of usability tests to customer organizations, and enables customers to compare the usability of our software to that of other suppliers. CIF also enables us to compare our current software with previous versions of our software. CIF Testing for Fusion Applications Oracle Fusion Applications comprises more than 100 modules in seven different product families. These modules encompass more than 400 task flows and 400 user roles. Due to resource constraints, we cannot perform comprehensive CIF testing across the entire product suite. Therefore, we had to develop meaningful inclusion criteria and work with other stakeholders across the applications development organization to prioritize product areas for testing. Ultimately, we want to test the product areas for which customers might be most interested in seeing CIF data. We also want to build credibility with customers; we need to be able to make the case to current and prospective customers that the product areas tested are representative of the product suite as a whole. Our goal is to test the top use cases for each product. The primary activity in the scoping process was to work with the individual product teams to identify the key products and business process task flows in each product to test. We prioritized these products and flows through a series of negotiations among the user experience managers, product strategy, and product management directors for each of the primary product families within the Oracle Fusion Applications suite (Human Capital Management, Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management, Financials, Projects, and Procurement). The end result of the scoping exercise was a list of 47 proposed CIF tests for the Fusion Applications product suite. Figure 1. A participant completes tasks during a usability test in Oracle’s Usability Labs Fusion Supplier Portal CIF Test The first Fusion CIF test was completed on the Supplier Portal application in July of 2011. Fusion Supplier Portal is part of an integrated suite of Procurement applications that helps supplier companies manage orders, schedules, shipments, invoices, negotiations and payments. The user roles targeted for the usability study were Supplier Account Receivables Specialists and Supplier Sales Representatives, including both experienced and inexperienced users across a wide demographic range. The test specifically focused on the following functionality and features: Manage payments – view payments Manage invoices – view invoice status and create invoices Manage account information – create new contact, review bank account information Manage agreements – find and view agreement, upload agreement lines, confirm status of agreement lines upload Manage purchase orders (PO) – view history of PO, request change to PO, find orders Manage negotiations – respond to request for a quote, check the status of a negotiation response These product areas were selected to represent the most important subset of features and functionality of the flow, in terms of frequency and criticality of use by customers. A total of 20 users participated in the usability study. The results of the Supplier Portal evaluation were favorable and exceeded our expectations. Figure 2. Fusion Supplier Portal Next Studies We plan to conduct two Fusion CIF usability studies per product family over the next nine months. The next product to be tested will be Self-service Procurement. End users are currently being recruited to participate in this usability study, and the test sessions are scheduled to begin during the last week of November.

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Hello With Oracle Identity Manager Architecture

- by mustafakaya

Hi, my name is Mustafa! I'm a Senior Consultant in Fusion Middleware Team and living in Istanbul,Turkey. I worked many various Java based software development projects such as end-to-end web applications, CRM , Telco VAS and integration projects.I want to share my experiences and research about Fusion Middleware Products in this column. Customer always wants best solution from software consultants or developers. Solution will be a code snippet or change complete architecture. We faced different requests according to the case of customer. In my posts i want to discuss Fusion Middleware Products Architecture or how can extend usability with apis or UI customization and more and I look forward to engaging with you on your experiences and thoughts on this. In my first post, i will be discussing Oracle Identity Manager architecture and i plan to discuss Oracle Identity Manager 11g features in next posts. Oracle Identity Manager System Architecture Oracle Identity Governance includes Oracle Identity Manager,Oracle Identity Analytics and Oracle Privileged Account Manager. I will discuss Oracle Identity Manager architecture in this post. In basically, Oracle Identity Manager is a n-tier standard Java EE application that is deployed on Oracle WebLogic Server and uses a database . Oracle Identity Manager presentation tier has three different screen and two different client. Identity Self Service and Identity System Administration are web-based thin client. Design Console is a Java Swing Client that communicates directly with the Business Service Tier. Identity Self Service provides end-user operations and delegated administration features. System Administration provides system administration functions. And Design Console mostly use for development management operations such as create and manage adapter and process form,notification , workflow desing, reconciliation rules etc. Business service tier is implemented as an Enterprise JavaBeans(EJB) application. So you can extense Oracle Identity Manager capabilities. -The SMPL and EJB APIs allow develop custom plug-ins such as management roles or identities. -Identity Services allow use core business capabilites of Oracle Identity Manager such as The User provisioning or reconciliation service. -Integration Services allow develop custom connectors or adapters for various deployment needs. -Platform Services allow use Entitlement Servers, Scheduler or SOA composites. The Middleware tier allows you using capabilites ADF Faces,SOA Suites, Scheduler, Entitlement Server and BI Publisher Reports. So OIM allows you to configure workflows uses Oracle SOA Suite or define authorization policies use with Oracle Entitlement Server. Also you can customization of OIM UI without need to write code and using ADF Business Editor you can extend custom attributes to user,role,catalog and other objects. Data tiers; Oracle Identity Manager is driven by data and metadata which provides flexibility and adaptability to Oracle Identity Manager functionlities. -Database has five schemas these are OIM,SOA,MDS,OPSS and OES. Oracle Identity Manager uses database to store runtime and configuration data. And all of entity, transactional and audit datas are stored in database. -Metadata Store; customizations and personalizations are stored in file-based repository or database-based repository.And Oracle Identity Manager architecture,the metadata is in Oracle Identity Manager database to take advantage of some of the advanced performance and availability features that this mode provides. -Identity Store; Oracle Identity Manager provides the ability to integrate an LDAP-based identity store into Oracle Identity Manager architecture. Oracle Identity Manager uses the human workflow module of Oracle Service Oriented Architecture Suite. OIM connects to SOA using the T3 URL which is front-end URL for the SOA server.Oracle Identity Manager uses embedded Oracle Entitlement Server for authorization checks in OIM engine. Several Oracle Identity Manager modules use JMS queues. Each queue is processed by a separate Message Driven Bean (MDB), which is also part of the Oracle Identity Manager application. Message producers are also part of the Oracle Identity Manager application. Oracle Identity Manager uses a scheduled jobs for some activities in the background.Some of scheduled jobs come with Out-Of-Box such as the disable users after the end date of the users or you can define your custom schedule jobs with Oracle Identity Manager APIs. You can use Oracle BI Publisher for reporting Oracle Identity Manager transactions or audit data which are in database. About me: Mustafa Kaya is a Senior Consultant in Oracle Fusion Middleware Team, living in Istanbul. Before coming to Oracle, he worked in teams developing web applications and backend services at a telco company. He is a Java technology enthusiast, software engineer and addicted to learn new technologies,develop new ideas. Follow Mustafa on Twitter,Connect on LinkedIn, and visit his site for Oracle Fusion Middleware related tips.

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