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  • jquery how to access the an xml node by index?

    - by DS
    Hi, say I've an xml returned from server like this: <persons> <person> <firstname>Jon</firstname> </person> <person> <firstname>Jack</firstname> </person> <person> <firstname>James</firstname> </person> </persons> If I want to access the 3rd firstname node (passed dynamically and stored in i, assumed to be 3 here), how do I do that? My weird attempt follows: var i=3; $(xml).find('firstname').each(function(idx){ if (idx==i) alert($(this).text()); }); It does fetch me the right content... but it just feels wrong to me especially the looping part. Basically I'm looping through the whole tree using .each()! Is there any better approach than this? Something that'd take me to the nth node directly like: alert( $(xml).find('firstname')[idx].text() ); // where idx=n I'm new to jquery so please excuse my jquery coding approach.

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  • Java program using a class from a JAR file

    - by Myn
    Hi guys, I'll try to phrase this as best I can. I have a program which has an API-like functionality - it uses reflection to dynamically call methods from within a class. In this instance: Server.java public static void main(String[] args) { Class<?> clazz = Class.forName("DiHandler"); StHandler out = (StHandler) clazz; out.read(); DiHandler.java // implements StHandler import edu.ds.*; public void read() { Ds aType = new Ds(); aType = "134"; } So DiHandler has a method read() which can contain anything, it doesn't matter to Server.java after compile time. My problem is: DiHandler.java uses the class Ds from a JAR file. When I'm working on DiHandler.java in Eclipse (in a separate project from the project Server.java is in) I can add this JAR without a problem. But when I move DiHandler.class, after it's compiled, to be used by Server.class, how can it still use the JAR file? I hope this makes some sense, I suppose another way to phrase it would be how can I allow DiHandler to call on a class from the JAR without editing the classpath? Thanks very much in advance and sorry for any confusion or poor phrasing, I can only offer thanks and the customary offer of a pint for any assistance. M

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  • transaction handling in dataset based insert/update in c#

    - by user3703611
    I am trying to insert bulk records in a sql server database table using dataset. But i am unable to do transaction handling. Please help me to apply transaction handling in below code. I am using adapter.UpdateCommand.Transaction = trans; but this line give me an error of Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Code: string ConnectionString = "server=localhost\\sqlexpress;database=WindowsApp;Integrated Security=SSPI;"; SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(ConnectionString); conn.Open(); SqlTransaction trans = conn.BeginTransaction(IsolationLevel.Serializable); SqlDataAdapter adapter = new SqlDataAdapter("SELECT * FROM Test ORDER BY Id", conn); SqlCommandBuilder builder = new SqlCommandBuilder(adapter); adapter.UpdateCommand.Transaction = trans; // Create a dataset object DataSet ds = new DataSet("TestSet"); adapter.Fill(ds, "Test"); // Create a data table object and add a new row DataTable TestTable = ds.Tables["Test"]; for (int i=1;i<=50;i++) { DataRow row = TestTable.NewRow(); row["Id"] = i; TestTable .Rows.Add(row); } // Update data adapter adapter.Update(ds, "Test"); trans.Commit(); conn.Close();

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  • How to load the SQL data into several ComboBox easily, am i doing the correctly or is there another way

    - by Dominic Deepan.d
    I have a Combobox to fill the data for City, State and PinCode these combobox is dopdown list and the user will pick it. and it loads once the form opens. Here is the CODE: /// CODE TO BRING A DATA FROM SQL INTO THE FORM DROP LIST /// To fill the sates from States Table cn = new SqlConnection(@"Data Source=Nick-PC\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=AutoDB;Integrated Security=True"); cmd= new SqlCommand("select * from TblState",cn); cn.Open(); SqlDataReader dr; try { dr = cmd.ExecuteReader(); while (dr.Read()) { SelectState.Items.Add(dr["State"].ToString()); } } catch (Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show(ex.Message); } finally { cn.Close(); } //To fill the Cities from City Table cn1 = new SqlConnection(@"Data Source=Nick-PC\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=AutoDB;Integrated Security=True"); cmd1 = new SqlCommand("SELECT * FROM TblCity", cn); cn.Open(); SqlDataReader ds; try { ds = cmd1.ExecuteReader(); while (ds.Read()) { SelectCity.Items.Add(ds["City"].ToString()); } } catch (Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show(ex.Message); } finally { cn1.Close(); } // To fill the Data in the Pincode from the City Table cn2 = new SqlConnection(@"Data Source=Nick-PC\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=AutoDB;Integrated Security=True"); cmd2 = new SqlCommand("SELECT (Pincode) FROM TblCity ", cn2); cn2.Open(); SqlDataReader dm; try { dm = cmd2.ExecuteReader(); while (dm.Read()) { SelectPinCode.Items.Add(dm["Pincode"].ToString()); } } catch (Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show(ex.Message); } finally { cn2.Close(); } its kinda Big, i am doing the same steps for all the combo-box, but is there a way i can merge it in a simple way.

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  • Javascript match part of url, if statement based on result.

    - by nick
    Here is an example of the url i'm trying to match: http://store.mywebsite.com/folder-1/folder-2/item3423434.aspx What im trying to match is http: //store.mywebsite.com/folder-1 except that "folder-1" will always be a different value. I can't figure out how to write an if statement for this: Example (pseudo-code) if(url contains http://store.mywebsite.com/folder-1) do this else if (url contains http://store.mywebsite.com/folder-2) do something else etc

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  • Regex: How to leave out webding font characters?

    - by DS
    Hi, I've a free text field on my form where the users can type in anything. Some users are pasting text into this field from Word documents with some weird characters that I don't want to go in my DB. (e.g. webding font characters) I'm trying to get a regular expression that would give me only the alphanum and the punctuation characters. But when I try the following, the output is still all the characters. How can I leave them out? <html><body><script type="text/javascript">var str="???????";document.write(str.replace(/[^a-zA-Z 0-9 [:punct]]+/g, " "));</script></body></html>

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  • IF statement within WHILE not working

    - by Ds.109
    I am working on a basic messaging system. This is to get all the messages and to make the row of the table that has an unread message Green. In the table, there is a column called 'msgread'. this is set to '0' by default. Therefore it should make any row with the msgread = 0 - green. this is only working for the first row of the table with the code i have - i verified that it is always getting a 0 value, however it only works the first time through in the while statement .. require('./connect.php'); $getmessages = "SELECT * FROM messages WHERE toperson = '" . $userid . "'"; echo $getmessages; $messages = mysql_query($getmessages); if(mysql_num_rows($messages) != 0) { $table = "<table><tr><th>From</th><th>Subject</th><th>Message</th></tr>"; while($results = mysql_fetch_array($messages)) { if(strlen($results[message]) < 30){ $message = $results[message]; } else { $message = substr($results[message], 0 ,30) . "..."; } if($results[msgread] == 0){ $table .= "<tr style='background:#9CFFB6'>"; $table .= "<td>" . $results[from] . "</td><td>" . $results[subject] . "</td><td><a href='viewmessage.php?id=" . $results[message_id] ."'>" . $message . "</a></td></tr>"; } else { $table .= "<tr>"; $table .= "<td>" . $results[from] . "</td><td>" . $results[subject] . "</td><td><a href='viewmessage.php?id=" . $results[message_id] ."'>" . $message . "</a></td></tr>"; } } echo $table ."</table>"; } else { echo "No Messages Found"; } There's all the code, including grabbing the info from the database. Thanks.

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  • Can't run Eclipse after installing ADT Plugin

    - by user89439
    So, I've installed the ADT Plugin, run a HelloWorld, restart my computer and after that the Eclipse can't run. A message appear: "An error has ocurred. See the log file: /home/todi (...)" Here is the log file: !SESSION 2011-07-26 22:51:59.381 ----------------------------------------------- eclipse.buildId=I20110613-1736 java.version=1.6.0_26 java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc. BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=pt_BR Framework arguments: -product org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product Command-line arguments: -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86 -product org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product !ENTRY org.eclipse.update.configurator 4 0 2011-07-26 22:57:34.135 !MESSAGE Could not rename configuration temp file !ENTRY org.eclipse.update.configurator 4 0 2011-07-26 22:57:34.157 !MESSAGE Unable to save configuration file "C:\Program Files\eclipse\configuration\org.eclipse.update\platform.xml.tmp" !STACK 0 java.io.IOException: Unable to save configuration file "C:\Program Files\eclipse\configuration\org.eclipse.update\platform.xml.tmp" at org.eclipse.update.internal.configurator.PlatformConfiguration.save(PlatformConfiguration.java:690) at org.eclipse.update.internal.configurator.PlatformConfiguration.save(PlatformConfiguration.java:574) at org.eclipse.update.internal.configurator.PlatformConfiguration.startup(PlatformConfiguration.java:714) at org.eclipse.update.internal.configurator.ConfigurationActivator.getPlatformConfiguration(ConfigurationActivator.java:404) at org.eclipse.update.internal.configurator.ConfigurationActivator.initialize(ConfigurationActivator.java:136) at org.eclipse.update.internal.configurator.ConfigurationActivator.start(ConfigurationActivator.java:69) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl$1.run(BundleContextImpl.java:711) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.startActivator(BundleContextImpl.java:702) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.start(BundleContextImpl.java:683) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleHost.startWorker(BundleHost.java:381) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.AbstractBundle.start(AbstractBundle.java:299) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.util.SecureAction.start(SecureAction.java:440) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.setLazyTrigger(BundleLoader.java:268) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseLazyStarter.postFindLocalClass(EclipseLazyStarter.java:107) at org.eclipse.osgi.baseadaptor.loader.ClasspathManager.findLocalClass(ClasspathManager.java:462) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader.findLocalClass(DefaultClassLoader.java:216) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findLocalClass(BundleLoader.java:400) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClassInternal(BundleLoader.java:476) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:429) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:417) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader.loadClass(DefaultClassLoader.java:107) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.loadClass(BundleLoader.java:345) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleHost.loadClass(BundleHost.java:229) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.AbstractBundle.loadClass(AbstractBundle.java:1207) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.ds.model.ServiceComponent.createInstance(ServiceComponent.java:480) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.ds.model.ServiceComponentProp.createInstance(ServiceComponentProp.java:271) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.ds.model.ServiceComponentProp.build(ServiceComponentProp.java:332) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.ds.InstanceProcess.buildComponent(InstanceProcess.java:588) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.ds.ServiceReg.getService(ServiceReg.java:53) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.serviceregistry.ServiceUse$1.run(ServiceUse.java:138) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.serviceregistry.ServiceUse.getService(ServiceUse.java:136) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.serviceregistry.ServiceRegistrationImpl.getService(ServiceRegistrationImpl.java:468) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.serviceregistry.ServiceRegistry.getService(ServiceRegistry.java:467) at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.internal.core.BundleContextImpl.getService(BundleContextImpl.java:594) at org.osgi.util.tracker.ServiceTracker.addingService(ServiceTracker.java:450) at org.osgi.util.tracker.ServiceTracker$Tracked.customizerAdding(ServiceTracker.java:980) at org.osgi.util.tracker.ServiceTracker$Tracked.customizerAdding(ServiceTracker.java:1) at org.osgi.util.tracker.AbstractTracked.trackAdding(AbstractTracked.java:262) at org.osgi.util.tracker.AbstractTracked.trackInitial(AbstractTracked.java:185) at org.osgi.util.tracker.ServiceTracker.open(ServiceTracker.java:348) at org.osgi.util.tracker.ServiceTracker.open(ServiceTracker.java:283) at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.getBundleGroupProviders(InternalPlatform.java:225) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform.getBundleGroupProviders(Platform.java:1261) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEWorkbenchPlugin.getFeatureInfos(IDEWorkbenchPlugin.java:291) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.WorkbenchActionBuilder.makeFeatureDependentActions(WorkbenchActionBuilder.java:1217) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.WorkbenchActionBuilder.makeActions(WorkbenchActionBuilder.java:1026) at org.eclipse.ui.application.ActionBarAdvisor.fillActionBars(ActionBarAdvisor.java:147) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.WorkbenchActionBuilder.fillActionBars(WorkbenchActionBuilder.java:341) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow.fillActionBars(WorkbenchWindow.java:3564) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow.(WorkbenchWindow.java:419) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.tweaklets.Workbench3xImplementation.createWorkbenchWindow(Workbench3xImplementation.java:31) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.newWorkbenchWindow(Workbench.java:1920) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$14(Workbench.java:1918) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$68.runWithException(Workbench.java:3658) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.StartupThreading$StartupRunnable.run(StartupThreading.java:31) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:35) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:135) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Display.java:4140) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3757) at org.eclipse.ui.application.WorkbenchAdvisor.openWindows(WorkbenchAdvisor.java:803) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$33.runWithException(Workbench.java:1595) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.StartupThreading$StartupRunnable.run(StartupThreading.java:31) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:35) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:135) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Display.java:4140) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3757) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:2604) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$4(Workbench.java:2494) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$7.run(Workbench.java:674) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:667) at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:123) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:344) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:622) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:577) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1410) !ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.p2.operations 4 0 2011-07-27 00:15:28.049 !MESSAGE Operation details !SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director 4 1 2011-07-27 00:15:28.049 !MESSAGE Cannot complete the install because some dependencies are not satisfiable !SUBENTRY 2 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director 4 0 2011-07-27 00:15:28.049 !MESSAGE org.eclipse.linuxtools.callgraph.feature.group [0.0.2.201106060936] cannot be installed in this environment because its filter is not applicable. !ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.p2.operations 4 0 2011-07-27 00:15:28.644 !MESSAGE Operation details !SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director 4 1 2011-07-27 00:15:28.644 !MESSAGE Cannot complete the install because some dependencies are not satisfiable !SUBENTRY 2 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director 4 0 2011-07-27 00:15:28.644 !MESSAGE org.eclipse.linuxtools.callgraph.feature.group [0.0.2.201106060936] cannot be installed in this environment because its filter is not applicable. !ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.p2.operations 4 0 2011-07-27 00:27:35.152 !MESSAGE Operation details !SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director 4 1 2011-07-27 00:27:35.158 !MESSAGE Cannot complete the install because some dependencies are not satisfiable !SUBENTRY 2 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director 4 0 2011-07-27 00:27:35.159 !MESSAGE org.eclipse.linuxtools.callgraph.feature.group [0.0.2.201106060936] cannot be installed in this environment because its filter is not applicable. !ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.p2.operations 4 0 2011-07-27 00:27:35.215 !MESSAGE Operation details !SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director 4 1 2011-07-27 00:27:35.216 !MESSAGE Cannot complete the install because some dependencies are not satisfiable !SUBENTRY 2 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director 4 0 2011-07-27 00:27:35.216 !MESSAGE org.eclipse.linuxtools.callgraph.feature.group [0.0.2.201106060936] cannot be installed in this environment because its filter is not applicable. !ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.p2.operations 4 0 2011-07-27 01:07:17.988 !MESSAGE Operation details !SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director 4 1 2011-07-27 01:07:18.006 !MESSAGE Cannot complete the install because some dependencies are not satisfiable !SUBENTRY 2 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director 4 0 2011-07-27 01:07:18.006 !MESSAGE org.eclipse.linuxtools.callgraph.feature.group [0.0.2.201106060936] cannot be installed in this environment because its filter is not applicable. !ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.p2.operations 4 0 2011-07-27 01:07:19.847 !MESSAGE Operation details !SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director 4 1 2011-07-27 01:07:19.848 !MESSAGE Cannot complete the install because some dependencies are not satisfiable !SUBENTRY 2 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director 4 0 2011-07-27 01:07:19.848 !MESSAGE org.eclipse.linuxtools.callgraph.feature.group [0.0.2.201106060936] cannot be installed in this environment because its filter is not applicable. I don't understand how the path windows like has appeared... if anyone knows how to solve this, I'll appreciate! Thank you for all your answers! Best regards, Alexandre Ferreira.

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  • The broken Promise of the Mobile Web

    - by Rick Strahl
    High end mobile devices have been with us now for almost 7 years and they have utterly transformed the way we access information. Mobile phones and smartphones that have access to the Internet and host smart applications are in the hands of a large percentage of the population of the world. In many places even very remote, cell phones and even smart phones are a common sight. I’ll never forget when I was in India in 2011 I was up in the Southern Indian mountains riding an elephant out of a tiny local village, with an elephant herder in front riding atop of the elephant in front of us. He was dressed in traditional garb with the loin wrap and head cloth/turban as did quite a few of the locals in this small out of the way and not so touristy village. So we’re slowly trundling along in the forest and he’s lazily using his stick to guide the elephant and… 10 minutes in he pulls out his cell phone from his sash and starts texting. In the middle of texting a huge pig jumps out from the side of the trail and he takes a picture running across our path in the jungle! So yeah, mobile technology is very pervasive and it’s reached into even very buried and unexpected parts of this world. Apps are still King Apps currently rule the roost when it comes to mobile devices and the applications that run on them. If there’s something that you need on your mobile device your first step usually is to look for an app, not use your browser. But native app development remains a pain in the butt, with the requirement to have to support 2 or 3 completely separate platforms. There are solutions that try to bridge that gap. Xamarin is on a tear at the moment, providing their cross-device toolkit to build applications using C#. While Xamarin tools are impressive – and also *very* expensive – they only address part of the development madness that is app development. There are still specific device integration isssues, dealing with the different developer programs, security and certificate setups and all that other noise that surrounds app development. There’s also PhoneGap/Cordova which provides a hybrid solution that involves creating local HTML/CSS/JavaScript based applications, and then packaging them to run in a specialized App container that can run on most mobile device platforms using a WebView interface. This allows for using of HTML technology, but it also still requires all the set up, configuration of APIs, security keys and certification and submission and deployment process just like native applications – you actually lose many of the benefits that  Web based apps bring. The big selling point of Cordova is that you get to use HTML have the ability to build your UI once for all platforms and run across all of them – but the rest of the app process remains in place. Apps can be a big pain to create and manage especially when we are talking about specialized or vertical business applications that aren’t geared at the mainstream market and that don’t fit the ‘store’ model. If you’re building a small intra department application you don’t want to deal with multiple device platforms and certification etc. for various public or corporate app stores. That model is simply not a good fit both from the development and deployment perspective. Even for commercial, big ticket apps, HTML as a UI platform offers many advantages over native, from write-once run-anywhere, to remote maintenance, single point of management and failure to having full control over the application as opposed to have the app store overloads censor you. In a lot of ways Web based HTML/CSS/JavaScript applications have so much potential for building better solutions based on existing Web technologies for the very same reasons a lot of content years ago moved off the desktop to the Web. To me the Web as a mobile platform makes perfect sense, but the reality of today’s Mobile Web unfortunately looks a little different… Where’s the Love for the Mobile Web? Yet here we are in the middle of 2014, nearly 7 years after the first iPhone was released and brought the promise of rich interactive information at your fingertips, and yet we still don’t really have a solid mobile Web platform. I know what you’re thinking: “But we have lots of HTML/JavaScript/CSS features that allows us to build nice mobile interfaces”. I agree to a point – it’s actually quite possible to build nice looking, rich and capable Web UI today. We have media queries to deal with varied display sizes, CSS transforms for smooth animations and transitions, tons of CSS improvements in CSS 3 that facilitate rich layout, a host of APIs geared towards mobile device features and lately even a number of JavaScript framework choices that facilitate development of multi-screen apps in a consistent manner. Personally I’ve been working a lot with AngularJs and heavily modified Bootstrap themes to build mobile first UIs and that’s been working very well to provide highly usable and attractive UI for typical mobile business applications. From the pure UI perspective things actually look very good. Not just about the UI But it’s not just about the UI - it’s also about integration with the mobile device. When it comes to putting all those pieces together into what amounts to a consolidated platform to build mobile Web applications, I think we still have a ways to go… there are a lot of missing pieces to make it all work together and integrate with the device more smoothly, and more importantly to make it work uniformly across the majority of devices. I think there are a number of reasons for this. Slow Standards Adoption HTML standards implementations and ratification has been dreadfully slow, and browser vendors all seem to pick and choose different pieces of the technology they implement. The end result is that we have a capable UI platform that’s missing some of the infrastructure pieces to make it whole on mobile devices. There’s lots of potential but what is lacking that final 10% to build truly compelling mobile applications that can compete favorably with native applications. Some of it is the fragmentation of browsers and the slow evolution of the mobile specific HTML APIs. A host of mobile standards exist but many of the standards are in the early review stage and they have been there stuck for long periods of time and seem to move at a glacial pace. Browser vendors seem even slower to implement them, and for good reason – non-ratified standards mean that implementations may change and vendor implementations tend to be experimental and  likely have to be changed later. Neither Vendors or developers are not keen on changing standards. This is the typical chicken and egg scenario, but without some forward momentum from some party we end up stuck in the mud. It seems that either the standards bodies or the vendors need to carry the torch forward and that doesn’t seem to be happening quickly enough. Mobile Device Integration just isn’t good enough Current standards are not far reaching enough to address a number of the use case scenarios necessary for many mobile applications. While not every application needs to have access to all mobile device features, almost every mobile application could benefit from some integration with other parts of the mobile device platform. Integration with GPS, phone, media, messaging, notifications, linking and contacts system are benefits that are unique to mobile applications and could be widely used, but are mostly (with the exception of GPS) inaccessible for Web based applications today. Unfortunately trying to do most of this today only with a mobile Web browser is a losing battle. Aside from PhoneGap/Cordova’s app centric model with its own custom API accessing mobile device features and the token exception of the GeoLocation API, most device integration features are not widely supported by the current crop of mobile browsers. For example there’s no usable messaging API that allows access to SMS or contacts from HTML. Even obvious components like the Media Capture API are only implemented partially by mobile devices. There are alternatives and workarounds for some of these interfaces by using browser specific code, but that’s might ugly and something that I thought we were trying to leave behind with newer browser standards. But it’s not quite working out that way. It’s utterly perplexing to me that mobile standards like Media Capture and Streams, Media Gallery Access, Responsive Images, Messaging API, Contacts Manager API have only minimal or no traction at all today. Keep in mind we’ve had mobile browsers for nearly 7 years now, and yet we still have to think about how to get access to an image from the image gallery or the camera on some devices? Heck Windows Phone IE Mobile just gained the ability to upload images recently in the Windows 8.1 Update – that’s feature that HTML has had for 20 years! These are simple concepts and common problems that should have been solved a long time ago. It’s extremely frustrating to see build 90% of a mobile Web app with relative ease and then hit a brick wall for the remaining 10%, which often can be show stoppers. The remaining 10% have to do with platform integration, browser differences and working around the limitations that browsers and ‘pinned’ applications impose on HTML applications. The maddening part is that these limitations seem arbitrary as they could easily work on all mobile platforms. For example, SMS has a URL Moniker interface that sort of works on Android, works badly with iOS (only works if the address is already in the contact list) and not at all on Windows Phone. There’s no reason this shouldn’t work universally using the same interface – after all all phones have supported SMS since before the year 2000! But, it doesn’t have to be this way Change can happen very quickly. Take the GeoLocation API for example. Geolocation has taken off at the very beginning of the mobile device era and today it works well, provides the necessary security (a big concern for many mobile APIs), and is supported by just about all major mobile and even desktop browsers today. It handles security concerns via prompts to avoid unwanted access which is a model that would work for most other device APIs in a similar fashion. One time approval and occasional re-approval if code changes or caches expire. Simple and only slightly intrusive. It all works well, even though GeoLocation actually has some physical limitations, such as representing the current location when no GPS device is present. Yet this is a solved problem, where other APIs that are conceptually much simpler to implement have failed to gain any traction at all. Technically none of these APIs should be a problem to implement, but it appears that the momentum is just not there. Inadequate Web Application Linking and Activation Another important piece of the puzzle missing is the integration of HTML based Web applications. Today HTML based applications are not first class citizens on mobile operating systems. When talking about HTML based content there’s a big difference between content and applications. Content is great for search engine discovery and plain browser usage. Content is usually accessed intermittently and permanent linking is not so critical for this type of content.  But applications have different needs. Applications need to be started up quickly and must be easily switchable to support a multi-tasking user workflow. Therefore, it’s pretty crucial that mobile Web apps are integrated into the underlying mobile OS and work with the standard task management features. Unfortunately this integration is not as smooth as it should be. It starts with actually trying to find mobile Web applications, to ‘installing’ them onto a phone in an easily accessible manner in a prominent position. The experience of discovering a Mobile Web ‘App’ and making it sticky is by no means as easy or satisfying. Today the way you’d go about this is: Open the browser Search for a Web Site in the browser with your search engine of choice Hope that you find the right site Hope that you actually find a site that works for your mobile device Click on the link and run the app in a fully chrome’d browser instance (read tiny surface area) Pin the app to the home screen (with all the limitations outline above) Hope you pointed at the right URL when you pinned Even for you and me as developers, there are a few steps in there that are painful and annoying, but think about the average user. First figuring out how to search for a specific site or URL? And then pinning the app and hopefully from the right location? You’ve probably lost more than half of your audience at that point. This experience sucks. For developers too this process is painful since app developers can’t control the shortcut creation directly. This problem often gets solved by crazy coding schemes, with annoying pop-ups that try to get people to create shortcuts via fancy animations that are both annoying and add overhead to each and every application that implements this sort of thing differently. And that’s not the end of it - getting the link onto the home screen with an application icon varies quite a bit between browsers. Apple’s non-standard meta tags are prominent and they work with iOS and Android (only more recent versions), but not on Windows Phone. Windows Phone instead requires you to create an actual screen or rather a partial screen be captured for a shortcut in the tile manager. Who had that brilliant idea I wonder? Surprisingly Chrome on recent Android versions seems to actually get it right – icons use pngs, pinning is easy and pinned applications properly behave like standalone apps and retain the browser’s active page state and content. Each of the platforms has a different way to specify icons (WP doesn’t allow you to use an icon image at all), and the most widely used interface in use today is a bunch of Apple specific meta tags that other browsers choose to support. The question is: Why is there no standard implementation for installing shortcuts across mobile platforms using an official format rather than a proprietary one? Then there’s iOS and the crazy way it treats home screen linked URLs using a crazy hybrid format that is neither as capable as a Web app running in Safari nor a WebView hosted application. Moving off the Web ‘app’ link when switching to another app actually causes the browser and preview it to ‘blank out’ the Web application in the Task View (see screenshot on the right). Then, when the ‘app’ is reactivated it ends up completely restarting the browser with the original link. This is crazy behavior that you can’t easily work around. In some situations you might be able to store the application state and restore it using LocalStorage, but for many scenarios that involve complex data sources (like say Google Maps) that’s not a possibility. The only reason for this screwed up behavior I can think of is that it is deliberate to make Web apps a pain in the butt to use and forcing users trough the App Store/PhoneGap/Cordova route. App linking and management is a very basic problem – something that we essentially have solved in every desktop browser – yet on mobile devices where it arguably matters a lot more to have easy access to web content we have to jump through hoops to have even a remotely decent linking/activation experience across browsers. Where’s the Money? It’s not surprising that device home screen integration and Mobile Web support in general is in such dismal shape – the mobile OS vendors benefit financially from App store sales and have little to gain from Web based applications that bypass the App store and the cash cow that it presents. On top of that, platform specific vendor lock-in of both end users and developers who have invested in hardware, apps and consumables is something that mobile platform vendors actually aspire to. Web based interfaces that are cross-platform are the anti-thesis of that and so again it’s no surprise that the mobile Web is on a struggling path. But – that may be changing. More and more we’re seeing operations shifting to services that are subscription based or otherwise collect money for usage, and that may drive more progress into the Web direction in the end . Nothing like the almighty dollar to drive innovation forward. Do we need a Mobile Web App Store? As much as I dislike moderated experiences in today’s massive App Stores, they do at least provide one single place to look for apps for your device. I think we could really use some sort of registry, that could provide something akin to an app store for mobile Web apps, to make it easier to actually find mobile applications. This could take the form of a specialized search engine, or maybe a more formal store/registry like structure. Something like apt-get/chocolatey for Web apps. It could be curated and provide at least some feedback and reviews that might help with the integrity of applications. Coupled to that could be a native application on each platform that would allow searching and browsing of the registry and then also handle installation in the form of providing the home screen linking, plus maybe an initial security configuration that determines what features are allowed access to for the app. I’m not holding my breath. In order for this sort of thing to take off and gain widespread appeal, a lot of coordination would be required. And in order to get enough traction it would have to come from a well known entity – a mobile Web app store from a no name source is unlikely to gain high enough usage numbers to make a difference. In a way this would eliminate some of the freedom of the Web, but of course this would also be an optional search path in addition to the standard open Web search mechanisms to find and access content today. Security Security is a big deal, and one of the perceived reasons why so many IT professionals appear to be willing to go back to the walled garden of deployed apps is that Apps are perceived as safe due to the official review and curation of the App stores. Curated stores are supposed to protect you from malware, illegal and misleading content. It doesn’t always work out that way and all the major vendors have had issues with security and the review process at some time or another. Security is critical, but I also think that Web applications in general pose less of a security threat than native applications, by nature of the sandboxed browser and JavaScript environments. Web applications run externally completely and in the HTML and JavaScript sandboxes, with only a very few controlled APIs allowing access to device specific features. And as discussed earlier – security for any device interaction can be granted the same for mobile applications through a Web browser, as they can for native applications either via explicit policies loaded from the Web, or via prompting as GeoLocation does today. Security is important, but it’s certainly solvable problem for Web applications even those that need to access device hardware. Security shouldn’t be a reason for Web apps to be an equal player in mobile applications. Apps are winning, but haven’t we been here before? So now we’re finding ourselves back in an era of installed app, rather than Web based and managed apps. Only it’s even worse today than with Desktop applications, in that the apps are going through a gatekeeper that charges a toll and censors what you can and can’t do in your apps. Frankly it’s a mystery to me why anybody would buy into this model and why it’s lasted this long when we’ve already been through this process. It’s crazy… It’s really a shame that this regression is happening. We have the technology to make mobile Web apps much more prominent, but yet we’re basically held back by what seems little more than bureaucracy, partisan bickering and self interest of the major parties involved. Back in the day of the desktop it was Internet Explorer’s 98+%  market shareholding back the Web from improvements for many years – now it’s the combined mobile OS market in control of the mobile browsers. If mobile Web apps were allowed to be treated the same as native apps with simple ways to install and run them consistently and persistently, that would go a long way to making mobile applications much more usable and seriously viable alternatives to native apps. But as it is mobile apps have a severe disadvantage in placement and operation. There are a few bright spots in all of this. Mozilla’s FireFoxOs is embracing the Web for it’s mobile OS by essentially building every app out of HTML and JavaScript based content. It supports both packaged and certified package modes (that can be put into the app store), and Open Web apps that are loaded and run completely off the Web and can also cache locally for offline operation using a manifest. Open Web apps are treated as full class citizens in FireFoxOS and run using the same mechanism as installed apps. Unfortunately FireFoxOs is getting a slow start with minimal device support and specifically targeting the low end market. We can hope that this approach will change and catch on with other vendors, but that’s also an uphill battle given the conflict of interest with platform lock in that it represents. Recent versions of Android also seem to be working reasonably well with mobile application integration onto the desktop and activation out of the box. Although it still uses the Apple meta tags to find icons and behavior settings, everything at least works as you would expect – icons to the desktop on pinning, WebView based full screen activation, and reliable application persistence as the browser/app is treated like a real application. Hopefully iOS will at some point provide this same level of rudimentary Web app support. What’s also interesting to me is that Microsoft hasn’t picked up on the obvious need for a solid Web App platform. Being a distant third in the mobile OS war, Microsoft certainly has nothing to lose and everything to gain by using fresh ideas and expanding into areas that the other major vendors are neglecting. But instead Microsoft is trying to beat the market leaders at their own game, fighting on their adversary’s terms instead of taking a new tack. Providing a kick ass mobile Web platform that takes the lead on some of the proposed mobile APIs would be something positive that Microsoft could do to improve its miserable position in the mobile device market. Where are we at with Mobile Web? It sure sounds like I’m really down on the Mobile Web, right? I’ve built a number of mobile apps in the last year and while overall result and response has been very positive to what we were able to accomplish in terms of UI, getting that final 10% that required device integration dialed was an absolute nightmare on every single one of them. Big compromises had to be made and some features were left out or had to be modified for some devices. In two cases we opted to go the Cordova route in order to get the integration we needed, along with the extra pain involved in that process. Unless you’re not integrating with device features and you don’t care deeply about a smooth integration with the mobile desktop, mobile Web development is fraught with frustration. So, yes I’m frustrated! But it’s not for lack of wanting the mobile Web to succeed. I am still a firm believer that we will eventually arrive a much more functional mobile Web platform that allows access to the most common device features in a sensible way. It wouldn't be difficult for device platform vendors to make Web based applications first class citizens on mobile devices. But unfortunately it looks like it will still be some time before this happens. So, what’s your experience building mobile Web apps? Are you finding similar issues? Just giving up on raw Web applications and building PhoneGap apps instead? Completely skipping the Web and going native? Leave a comment for discussion. Resources Rick Strahl on DotNet Rocks talking about Mobile Web© Rick Strahl, West Wind Technologies, 2005-2014Posted in HTML5  Mobile   Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();

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  • Currency Conversion in Oracle BI applications

    - by Saurabh Verma
    Authored by Vijay Aggarwal and Hichem Sellami A typical data warehouse contains Star and/or Snowflake schema, made up of Dimensions and Facts. The facts store various numerical information including amounts. Example; Order Amount, Invoice Amount etc. With the true global nature of business now-a-days, the end-users want to view the reports in their own currency or in global/common currency as defined by their business. This presents a unique opportunity in BI to provide the amounts in converted rates either by pre-storing or by doing on-the-fly conversions while displaying the reports to the users. Source Systems OBIA caters to various source systems like EBS, PSFT, Sebl, JDE, Fusion etc. Each source has its own unique and intricate ways of defining and storing currency data, doing currency conversions and presenting to the OLTP users. For example; EBS stores conversion rates between currencies which can be classified by conversion rates, like Corporate rate, Spot rate, Period rate etc. Siebel stores exchange rates by conversion rates like Daily. EBS/Fusion stores the conversion rates for each day, where as PSFT/Siebel store for a range of days. PSFT has Rate Multiplication Factor and Rate Division Factor and we need to calculate the Rate based on them, where as other Source systems store the Currency Exchange Rate directly. OBIA Design The data consolidation from various disparate source systems, poses the challenge to conform various currencies, rate types, exchange rates etc., and designing the best way to present the amounts to the users without affecting the performance. When consolidating the data for reporting in OBIA, we have designed the mechanisms in the Common Dimension, to allow users to report based on their required currencies. OBIA Facts store amounts in various currencies: Document Currency: This is the currency of the actual transaction. For a multinational company, this can be in various currencies. Local Currency: This is the base currency in which the accounting entries are recorded by the business. This is generally defined in the Ledger of the company. Global Currencies: OBIA provides five Global Currencies. Three are used across all modules. The last two are for CRM only. A Global currency is very useful when creating reports where the data is viewed enterprise-wide. Example; a US based multinational would want to see the reports in USD. The company will choose USD as one of the global currencies. OBIA allows users to define up-to five global currencies during the initial implementation. The term Currency Preference is used to designate the set of values: Document Currency, Local Currency, Global Currency 1, Global Currency 2, Global Currency 3; which are shared among all modules. There are four more currency preferences, specific to certain modules: Global Currency 4 (aka CRM Currency) and Global Currency 5 which are used in CRM; and Project Currency and Contract Currency, used in Project Analytics. When choosing Local Currency for Currency preference, the data will show in the currency of the Ledger (or Business Unit) in the prompt. So it is important to select one Ledger or Business Unit when viewing data in Local Currency. More on this can be found in the section: Toggling Currency Preferences in the Dashboard. Design Logic When extracting the fact data, the OOTB mappings extract and load the document amount, and the local amount in target tables. It also loads the exchange rates required to convert the document amount into the corresponding global amounts. If the source system only provides the document amount in the transaction, the extract mapping does a lookup to get the Local currency code, and the Local exchange rate. The Load mapping then uses the local currency code and rate to derive the local amount. The load mapping also fetches the Global Currencies and looks up the corresponding exchange rates. The lookup of exchange rates is done via the Exchange Rate Dimension provided as a Common/Conforming Dimension in OBIA. The Exchange Rate Dimension stores the exchange rates between various currencies for a date range and Rate Type. Two physical tables W_EXCH_RATE_G and W_GLOBAL_EXCH_RATE_G are used to provide the lookups and conversions between currencies. The data is loaded from the source system’s Ledger tables. W_EXCH_RATE_G stores the exchange rates between currencies with a date range. On the other hand, W_GLOBAL_EXCH_RATE_G stores the currency conversions between the document currency and the pre-defined five Global Currencies for each day. Based on the requirements, the fact mappings can decide and use one or both tables to do the conversion. Currency design in OBIA also taps into the MLS and Domain architecture, thus allowing the users to map the currencies to a universal Domain during the implementation time. This is especially important for companies deploying and using OBIA with multiple source adapters. Some Gotchas to Look for It is necessary to think through the currencies during the initial implementation. 1) Identify various types of currencies that are used by your business. Understand what will be your Local (or Base) and Documentation currency. Identify various global currencies that your users will want to look at the reports. This will be based on the global nature of your business. Changes to these currencies later in the project, while permitted, but may cause Full data loads and hence lost time. 2) If the user has a multi source system make sure that the Global Currencies and Global Rate Types chosen in Configuration Manager do have the corresponding source specific counterparts. In other words, make sure for every DW specific value chosen for Currency Code or Rate Type, there is a source Domain mapping already done. Technical Section This section will briefly mention the technical scenarios employed in the OBIA adaptors to extract data from each source system. In OBIA, we have two main tables which store the Currency Rate information as explained in previous sections. W_EXCH_RATE_G and W_GLOBAL_EXCH_RATE_G are the two tables. W_EXCH_RATE_G stores all the Currency Conversions present in the source system. It captures data for a Date Range. W_GLOBAL_EXCH_RATE_G has Global Currency Conversions stored at a Daily level. However the challenge here is to store all the 5 Global Currency Exchange Rates in a single record for each From Currency. Let’s voyage further into the Source System Extraction logic for each of these tables and understand the flow briefly. EBS: In EBS, we have Currency Data stored in GL_DAILY_RATES table. As the name indicates GL_DAILY_RATES EBS table has data at a daily level. However in our warehouse we store the data with a Date Range and insert a new range record only when the Exchange Rate changes for a particular From Currency, To Currency and Rate Type. Below are the main logical steps that we employ in this process. (Incremental Flow only) – Cleanup the data in W_EXCH_RATE_G. Delete the records which have Start Date > minimum conversion date Update the End Date of the existing records. Compress the daily data from GL_DAILY_RATES table into Range Records. Incremental map uses $$XRATE_UPD_NUM_DAY as an extra parameter. Generate Previous Rate, Previous Date and Next Date for each of the Daily record from the OLTP. Filter out the records which have Conversion Rate same as Previous Rates or if the Conversion Date lies within a single day range. Mark the records as ‘Keep’ and ‘Filter’ and also get the final End Date for the single Range record (Unique Combination of From Date, To Date, Rate and Conversion Date). Filter the records marked as ‘Filter’ in the INFA map. The above steps will load W_EXCH_RATE_GS. Step 0 updates/deletes W_EXCH_RATE_G directly. SIL map will then insert/update the GS data into W_EXCH_RATE_G. These steps convert the daily records in GL_DAILY_RATES to Range records in W_EXCH_RATE_G. We do not need such special logic for loading W_GLOBAL_EXCH_RATE_G. This is a table where we store data at a Daily Granular Level. However we need to pivot the data because the data present in multiple rows in source tables needs to be stored in different columns of the same row in DW. We use GROUP BY and CASE logic to achieve this. Fusion: Fusion has extraction logic very similar to EBS. The only difference is that the Cleanup logic that was mentioned in step 0 above does not use $$XRATE_UPD_NUM_DAY parameter. In Fusion we bring all the Exchange Rates in Incremental as well and do the cleanup. The SIL then takes care of Insert/Updates accordingly. PeopleSoft:PeopleSoft does not have From Date and To Date explicitly in the Source tables. Let’s look at an example. Please note that this is achieved from PS1 onwards only. 1 Jan 2010 – USD to INR – 45 31 Jan 2010 – USD to INR – 46 PSFT stores records in above fashion. This means that Exchange Rate of 45 for USD to INR is applicable for 1 Jan 2010 to 30 Jan 2010. We need to store data in this fashion in DW. Also PSFT has Exchange Rate stored as RATE_MULT and RATE_DIV. We need to do a RATE_MULT/RATE_DIV to get the correct Exchange Rate. We generate From Date and To Date while extracting data from source and this has certain assumptions: If a record gets updated/inserted in the source, it will be extracted in incremental. Also if this updated/inserted record is between other dates, then we also extract the preceding and succeeding records (based on dates) of this record. This is required because we need to generate a range record and we have 3 records whose ranges have changed. Taking the same example as above, if there is a new record which gets inserted on 15 Jan 2010; the new ranges are 1 Jan to 14 Jan, 15 Jan to 30 Jan and 31 Jan to Next available date. Even though 1 Jan record and 31 Jan have not changed, we will still extract them because the range is affected. Similar logic is used for Global Exchange Rate Extraction. We create the Range records and get it into a Temporary table. Then we join to Day Dimension, create individual records and pivot the data to get the 5 Global Exchange Rates for each From Currency, Date and Rate Type. Siebel: Siebel Facts are dependent on Global Exchange Rates heavily and almost none of them really use individual Exchange Rates. In other words, W_GLOBAL_EXCH_RATE_G is the main table used in Siebel from PS1 release onwards. As of January 2002, the Euro Triangulation method for converting between currencies belonging to EMU members is not needed for present and future currency exchanges. However, the method is still available in Siebel applications, as are the old currencies, so that historical data can be maintained accurately. The following description applies only to historical data needing conversion prior to the 2002 switch to the Euro for the EMU member countries. If a country is a member of the European Monetary Union (EMU), you should convert its currency to other currencies through the Euro. This is called triangulation, and it is used whenever either currency being converted has EMU Triangulation checked. Due to this, there are multiple extraction flows in SEBL ie. EUR to EMU, EUR to NonEMU, EUR to DMC and so on. We load W_EXCH_RATE_G through multiple flows with these data. This has been kept same as previous versions of OBIA. W_GLOBAL_EXCH_RATE_G being a new table does not have such needs. However SEBL does not have From Date and To Date columns in the Source tables similar to PSFT. We use similar extraction logic as explained in PSFT section for SEBL as well. What if all 5 Global Currencies configured are same? As mentioned in previous sections, from PS1 onwards we store Global Exchange Rates in W_GLOBAL_EXCH_RATE_G table. The extraction logic for this table involves Pivoting data from multiple rows into a single row with 5 Global Exchange Rates in 5 columns. As mentioned in previous sections, we use CASE and GROUP BY functions to achieve this. This approach poses a unique problem when all the 5 Global Currencies Chosen are same. For example – If the user configures all 5 Global Currencies as ‘USD’ then the extract logic will not be able to generate a record for From Currency=USD. This is because, not all Source Systems will have a USD->USD conversion record. We have _Generated mappings to take care of this case. We generate a record with Conversion Rate=1 for such cases. Reusable Lookups Before PS1, we had a Mapplet for Currency Conversions. In PS1, we only have reusable Lookups- LKP_W_EXCH_RATE_G and LKP_W_GLOBAL_EXCH_RATE_G. These lookups have another layer of logic so that all the lookup conditions are met when they are used in various Fact Mappings. Any user who would want to do a LKP on W_EXCH_RATE_G or W_GLOBAL_EXCH_RATE_G should and must use these Lookups. A direct join or Lookup on the tables might lead to wrong data being returned. Changing Currency preferences in the Dashboard: In the 796x series, all amount metrics in OBIA were showing the Global1 amount. The customer needed to change the metric definitions to show them in another Currency preference. Project Analytics started supporting currency preferences since 7.9.6 release though, and it published a Tech note for other module customers to add toggling between currency preferences to the solution. List of Currency Preferences Starting from 11.1.1.x release, the BI Platform added a new feature to support multiple currencies. The new session variable (PREFERRED_CURRENCY) is populated through a newly introduced currency prompt. This prompt can take its values from the xml file: userpref_currencies_OBIA.xml, which is hosted in the BI Server installation folder, under :< home>\instances\instance1\config\OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent\coreapplication_obips1\userpref_currencies.xml This file contains the list of currency preferences, like“Local Currency”, “Global Currency 1”,…which customers can also rename to give them more meaningful business names. There are two options for showing the list of currency preferences to the user in the dashboard: Static and Dynamic. In Static mode, all users will see the full list as in the user preference currencies file. In the Dynamic mode, the list shown in the currency prompt drop down is a result of a dynamic query specified in the same file. Customers can build some security into the rpd, so the list of currency preferences will be based on the user roles…BI Applications built a subject area: “Dynamic Currency Preference” to run this query, and give every user only the list of currency preferences required by his application roles. Adding Currency to an Amount Field When the user selects one of the items from the currency prompt, all the amounts in that page will show in the Currency corresponding to that preference. For example, if the user selects “Global Currency1” from the prompt, all data will be showing in Global Currency 1 as specified in the Configuration Manager. If the user select “Local Currency”, all amount fields will show in the Currency of the Business Unit selected in the BU filter of the same page. If there is no particular Business Unit selected in that filter, and the data selected by the query contains amounts in more than one currency (for example one BU has USD as a functional currency, the other has EUR as functional currency), then subtotals will not be available (cannot add USD and EUR amounts in one field), and depending on the set up (see next paragraph), the user may receive an error. There are two ways to add the Currency field to an amount metric: In the form of currency code, like USD, EUR…For this the user needs to add the field “Apps Common Currency Code” to the report. This field is in every subject area, usually under the table “Currency Tag” or “Currency Code”… In the form of currency symbol ($ for USD, € for EUR,…) For this, the user needs to format the amount metrics in the report as a currency column, by specifying the currency tag column in the Column Properties option in Column Actions drop down list. Typically this column should be the “BI Common Currency Code” available in every subject area. Select Column Properties option in the Edit list of a metric. In the Data Format tab, select Custom as Treat Number As. Enter the following syntax under Custom Number Format: [$:currencyTagColumn=Subjectarea.table.column] Where Column is the “BI Common Currency Code” defined to take the currency code value based on the currency preference chosen by the user in the Currency preference prompt.

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  • Get XML from Server for Use on Windows Phone

    - by psheriff
    When working with mobile devices you always need to take into account bandwidth usage and power consumption. If you are constantly connecting to a server to retrieve data for an input screen, then you might think about moving some of that data down to the phone and cache the data on the phone. An example would be a static list of US State Codes that you are asking the user to select from. Since this is data that does not change very often, this is one set of data that would be great to cache on the phone. Since the Windows Phone does not have an embedded database, you can just use an XML string stored in Isolated Storage. Of course, then you need to figure out how to get data down to the phone. You can either ship it with the application, or connect and retrieve the data from your server one time and thereafter cache it and retrieve it from the cache. In this blog post you will see how to create a WCF service to retrieve data from a Product table in a database and send that data as XML to the phone and store it in Isolated Storage. You will then read that data from Isolated Storage using LINQ to XML and display it in a ListBox. Step 1: Create a Windows Phone Application The first step is to create a Windows Phone application called WP_GetXmlFromDataSet (or whatever you want to call it). On the MainPage.xaml add the following XAML within the “ContentPanel” grid: <StackPanel>  <Button Name="btnGetXml"          Content="Get XML"          Click="btnGetXml_Click" />  <Button Name="btnRead"          Content="Read XML"          IsEnabled="False"          Click="btnRead_Click" />  <ListBox Name="lstData"            Height="430"            ItemsSource="{Binding}"            DisplayMemberPath="ProductName" /></StackPanel> Now it is time to create the WCF Service Application that you will call to get the XML from a table in a SQL Server database. Step 2: Create a WCF Service Application Add a new project to your solution called WP_GetXmlFromDataSet.Services. Delete the IService1.* and Service1.* files and the App_Data folder, as you don’t generally need these items. Add a new WCF Service class called ProductService. In the IProductService class modify the void DoWork() method with the following code: [OperationContract]string GetProductXml(); Open the code behind in the ProductService.svc and create the GetProductXml() method. This method (shown below) will connect up to a database and retrieve data from a Product table. public string GetProductXml(){  string ret = string.Empty;  string sql = string.Empty;  SqlDataAdapter da;  DataSet ds = new DataSet();   sql = "SELECT ProductId, ProductName,";  sql += " IntroductionDate, Price";  sql += " FROM Product";   da = new SqlDataAdapter(sql,    ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["Sandbox"].ConnectionString);   da.Fill(ds);   // Create Attribute based XML  foreach (DataColumn col in ds.Tables[0].Columns)  {    col.ColumnMapping = MappingType.Attribute;  }   ds.DataSetName = "Products";  ds.Tables[0].TableName = "Product";  ret = ds.GetXml();   return ret;} After retrieving the data from the Product table using a DataSet, you will want to set each column’s ColumnMapping property to Attribute. Using attribute based XML will make the data transferred across the wire a little smaller. You then set the DataSetName property to the top-level element name you want to assign to the XML. You then set the TableName property on the DataTable to the name you want each element to be in your XML. The last thing you need to do is to call the GetXml() method on the DataSet object which will return an XML string of the data in your DataSet object. This is the value that you will return from the service call. The XML that is returned from the above call looks like the following: <Products>  <Product ProductId="1"           ProductName="PDSA .NET Productivity Framework"           IntroductionDate="9/3/2010"           Price="5000" />  <Product ProductId="3"           ProductName="Haystack Code Generator for .NET"           IntroductionDate="7/1/2010"           Price="599.00" />  ...  ...  ... </Products> The GetProductXml() method uses a connection string from the Web.Config file, so add a <connectionStrings> element to the Web.Config file in your WCF Service application. Modify the settings shown below as needed for your server and database name. <connectionStrings>  <add name="Sandbox"        connectionString="Server=Localhost;Database=Sandbox;                         Integrated Security=Yes"/></connectionStrings> The Product Table You will need a Product table that you can read data from. I used the following structure for my product table. Add any data you want to this table after you create it in your database. CREATE TABLE Product(  ProductId int PRIMARY KEY IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,  ProductName varchar(50) NOT NULL,  IntroductionDate datetime NULL,  Price money NULL) Step 3: Connect to WCF Service from Windows Phone Application Back in your Windows Phone application you will now need to add a Service Reference to the WCF Service application you just created. Right-mouse click on the Windows Phone Project and choose Add Service Reference… from the context menu. Click on the Discover button. In the Namespace text box enter “ProductServiceRefrence”, then click the OK button. If you entered everything correctly, Visual Studio will generate some code that allows you to connect to your Product service. On the MainPage.xaml designer window double click on the Get XML button to generate the Click event procedure for this button. In the Click event procedure make a call to a GetXmlFromServer() method. This method will also need a “Completed” event procedure to be written since all communication with a WCF Service from Windows Phone must be asynchronous.  Write these two methods as follows: private const string KEY_NAME = "ProductData"; private void GetXmlFromServer(){  ProductServiceClient client = new ProductServiceClient();   client.GetProductXmlCompleted += new     EventHandler<GetProductXmlCompletedEventArgs>      (client_GetProductXmlCompleted);   client.GetProductXmlAsync();  client.CloseAsync();} void client_GetProductXmlCompleted(object sender,                                   GetProductXmlCompletedEventArgs e){  // Store XML data in Isolated Storage  IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings[KEY_NAME] = e.Result;   btnRead.IsEnabled = true;} As you can see, this is a fairly standard call to a WCF Service. In the Completed event you get the Result from the event argument, which is the XML, and store it into Isolated Storage using the IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings class. Notice the constant that I added to specify the name of the key. You will use this constant later to read the data from Isolated Storage. Step 4: Create a Product Class Even though you stored XML data into Isolated Storage when you read that data out you will want to convert each element in the XML file into an actual Product object. This means that you need to create a Product class in your Windows Phone application. Add a Product class to your project that looks like the code below: public class Product{  public string ProductName{ get; set; }  public int ProductId{ get; set; }  public DateTime IntroductionDate{ get; set; }  public decimal Price{ get; set; }} Step 5: Read Settings from Isolated Storage Now that you have the XML data stored in Isolated Storage, it is time to use it. Go back to the MainPage.xaml design view and double click on the Read XML button to generate the Click event procedure. From the Click event procedure call a method named ReadProductXml().Create this method as shown below: private void ReadProductXml(){  XElement xElem = null;   if (IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings.Contains(KEY_NAME))  {    xElem = XElement.Parse(     IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings[KEY_NAME].ToString());     // Create a list of Product objects    var products =         from prod in xElem.Descendants("Product")        orderby prod.Attribute("ProductName").Value        select new Product        {          ProductId = Convert.ToInt32(prod.Attribute("ProductId").Value),          ProductName = prod.Attribute("ProductName").Value,          IntroductionDate =             Convert.ToDateTime(prod.Attribute("IntroductionDate").Value),          Price = Convert.ToDecimal(prod.Attribute("Price").Value)        };     lstData.DataContext = products;  }} The ReadProductXml() method checks to make sure that the key name that you saved your XML as exists in Isolated Storage prior to trying to open it. If the key name exists, then you retrieve the value as a string. Use the XElement’s Parse method to convert the XML string to a XElement object. LINQ to XML is used to iterate over each element in the XElement object and create a new Product object from each attribute in your XML file. The LINQ to XML code also orders the XML data by the ProductName. After the LINQ to XML code runs you end up with an IEnumerable collection of Product objects in the variable named “products”. You assign this collection of product data to the DataContext of the ListBox you created in XAML. The DisplayMemberPath property of the ListBox is set to “ProductName” so it will now display the product name for each row in your products collection. Summary In this article you learned how to retrieve an XML string from a table in a database, return that string across a WCF Service and store it into Isolated Storage on your Windows Phone. You then used LINQ to XML to create a collection of Product objects from the data stored and display that data in a Windows Phone list box. This same technique can be used in Silverlight or WPF applications too. NOTE: You can download the complete sample code at my website. http://www.pdsa.com/downloads. Choose Tips & Tricks, then "Get XML From Server for Use on Windows Phone" from the drop-down. Good Luck with your Coding,Paul Sheriff ** SPECIAL OFFER FOR MY BLOG READERS **Visit http://www.pdsa.com/Event/Blog for a free video on Silverlight entitled Silverlight XAML for the Complete Novice - Part 1.  

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  • ??Database Replay Capture????

    - by Liu Maclean(???)
    Database Replay?11g??????,??workload capture??????????????,???????? ??Workload Capture???????: ???????????????,???????2????,??????,???????????OLTP???????capture 10????1G???? ?????: ????????????????????? ??startup restrict????,?????????? ??capture???restrict?? ????????????? ???????????????: ??scn???????? ???????? ???????? Capture???????????workload????? ???????SYSDBA?SYSOPER????OS?? ????: ?TPCC???capture??????4.5% ????session????64KB??? ???Workload Capture?????????? ????????2?, ??RAC????workload capture  file??????????????,??start_capture????? ????session????64KB???,??????????????workload  capture file????Server Process??????,?????????parse???execution????,Server Process??LOGON?LOGOFF?SQL??????????PGA?,???WCR Capture PG?WCR Capture PGA?,?PGA?????????????????,Server Process???????????WCR???,?????WCR???Server Process??’WCR: capture file IO write’????? ?WCR?????????: SQL> select * from v$version; BANNER -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production CORE 11.2.0.3.0 Production TNS for Linux: Version 11.2.0.3.0 - Production NLSRTL Version 11.2.0.3.0 - Production SQL> select name from v$event_name where name like '%WCR%'; NAME ---------------------------------------------------------------- WCR: replay client notify WCR: replay clock WCR: replay lock order WCR: replay paused WCR: RAC message context busy WCR: capture file IO write WCR: Sync context busy latch: WCR: sync latch: WCR: processes HT 11g????????WCR???LATCH 1* select name,gets from v$latch where name like '%WCR%' SQL> / NAME GETS ------------------------------ ---------- WCR: kecu cas mem 3 WCR: kecr File Count 37 WCR: MMON Create dir 1 WCR: ticker cache 0 WCR: sync 495 WCR: processes HT 0 WCR: MTS VC queue 0 7 rows selected. ????????????Database Replay Capture????? 1. ????capture dbms_workload_capture.start_capture CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY dbcapture AS '/home/oracle/dbcapture'; execute dbms_workload_capture.start_capture('CAPTURE','DBCAPTURE',default_action=>'INCLUDE'); SQL> select id,name,status,start_time,end_time,connects,user_calls,dir_path from dba_workload_captures where id = (select max(id) from dba_workload_captures) ; ID ---------- NAME -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STATUS START_TIM END_TIME CONNECTS ---------------------------------------- --------- --------- ---------- USER_CALLS ---------- DIR_PATH -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 CAPTURE IN PROGRESS 08-DEC-12 11 ID ---------- NAME -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STATUS START_TIM END_TIME CONNECTS ---------------------------------------- --------- --------- ---------- USER_CALLS ---------- DIR_PATH -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 167 /home/oracle/dbcapture 2. ?? capture file?? [oracle@mlab2 dbcapture]$ ls -lR .: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Dec 8 07:24 cap drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 4096 Dec 8 07:24 capfiles -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 0 Dec 8 07:24 wcr_cap_00001.start ./cap: total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 91 Dec 8 07:24 wcr_scapture.wmd ./capfiles: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 12 oracle oinstall 4096 Dec 8 07:24 inst1 ./capfiles/inst1: total 40 drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Dec 8 08:31 aa drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Dec 8 07:24 ab drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Dec 8 07:24 ac drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Dec 8 07:24 ad drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Dec 8 07:24 ae drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Dec 8 07:24 af drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Dec 8 07:24 ag drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Dec 8 07:24 ah drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Dec 8 07:24 ai drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Dec 8 07:24 aj ./capfiles/inst1/aa: total 316 -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1762 Dec 8 07:25 wcr_c6cdah0000001.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 16478 Dec 8 07:28 wcr_c6cf1h0000002.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1772 Dec 8 07:29 wcr_c6cjdh0000004.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1535 Dec 8 07:29 wcr_c6cnah0000005.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1821 Dec 8 07:41 wcr_c6cpfh0000007.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1815 Dec 8 07:33 wcr_c6cq6h000000a.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1535 Dec 8 07:34 wcr_c6cxmh000000h.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1427 Dec 8 07:41 wcr_c6cxvh000000j.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1425 Dec 8 07:41 wcr_c6czph000000k.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 2398 Dec 8 07:49 wcr_c6dqfh000000q.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 259321 Dec 8 08:35 wcr_c6du7h000000r.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 0 Dec 8 07:55 wcr_c6f6yh000000t.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 0 Dec 8 08:28 wcr_c6h3qh0000013.rec ./capfiles/inst1/ab: total 0 ./capfiles/inst1/ac: total 0 ./capfiles/inst1/ad: total 0 ./capfiles/inst1/ae: total 0 ./capfiles/inst1/af: total 0 ./capfiles/inst1/ag: total 0 ./capfiles/inst1/ah: total 0 ./capfiles/inst1/ai: total 0 ./capfiles/inst1/aj: total 0 [oracle@mlab2 dbcapture]$ cd ./capfiles/inst1/aa [oracle@mlab2 aa]$ ls -l total 316 -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1762 Dec 8 07:25 wcr_c6cdah0000001.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 16478 Dec 8 07:28 wcr_c6cf1h0000002.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1772 Dec 8 07:29 wcr_c6cjdh0000004.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1535 Dec 8 07:29 wcr_c6cnah0000005.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1821 Dec 8 07:41 wcr_c6cpfh0000007.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1815 Dec 8 07:33 wcr_c6cq6h000000a.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1535 Dec 8 07:34 wcr_c6cxmh000000h.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1427 Dec 8 07:41 wcr_c6cxvh000000j.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1425 Dec 8 07:41 wcr_c6czph000000k.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 2398 Dec 8 07:49 wcr_c6dqfh000000q.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 259321 Dec 8 08:35 wcr_c6du7h000000r.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 0 Dec 8 07:55 wcr_c6f6yh000000t.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 0 Dec 8 08:28 wcr_c6h3qh0000013.rec [oracle@mlab2 aa]$ ls -l |wc -l 14 ???????14??? 3. ??LOGON????Server Process [oracle@mlab2 ~]$ sqlplus / as sysdba SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.3.0 Production on Sat Dec 8 08:37:40 2012 Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, Automatic Storage Management, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options ?????wcr?? [oracle@mlab2 aa]$ ls -ltr total 316 -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1762 Dec 8 07:25 wcr_c6cdah0000001.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 16478 Dec 8 07:28 wcr_c6cf1h0000002.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1772 Dec 8 07:29 wcr_c6cjdh0000004.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1535 Dec 8 07:29 wcr_c6cnah0000005.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1815 Dec 8 07:33 wcr_c6cq6h000000a.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1535 Dec 8 07:34 wcr_c6cxmh000000h.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1425 Dec 8 07:41 wcr_c6czph000000k.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1427 Dec 8 07:41 wcr_c6cxvh000000j.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 1821 Dec 8 07:41 wcr_c6cpfh0000007.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 2398 Dec 8 07:49 wcr_c6dqfh000000q.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 0 Dec 8 07:55 wcr_c6f6yh000000t.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 0 Dec 8 08:28 wcr_c6h3qh0000013.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 259321 Dec 8 08:35 wcr_c6du7h000000r.rec -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 0 Dec 8 08:37 wcr_c6hp4h0000018.rec ??????wcr_c6hp4h0000018.rec ??? SQL> select spid from v$process where addr = ( select paddr from v$session where sid=(select distinct sid from v$mystat)); SPID ------------------------ 14293 ????????????????14293, ???????????????,??????wcr_c6hp4h0000018.rec [oracle@mlab2 ~]$ ls -l /proc/14293/fd total 0 lr-x------ 1 oracle oinstall 64 Dec 8 08:39 0 -> /dev/null l-wx------ 1 oracle oinstall 64 Dec 8 08:39 1 -> /dev/null lrwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 64 Dec 8 08:39 10 -> /u01/app/oracle/product/11201/db_1/rdbms/audit/CRMV_ora_14293_1.aud l-wx------ 1 oracle oinstall 64 Dec 8 08:39 11 -> /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/crmv/CRMV/trace/CRMV_ora_14293.trc l-wx------ 1 oracle oinstall 64 Dec 8 08:39 12 -> pipe:[34585895] l-wx------ 1 oracle oinstall 64 Dec 8 08:39 13 -> /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/crmv/CRMV/trace/CRMV_ora_14293.trm l-wx------ 1 oracle oinstall 64 Dec 8 08:39 2 -> /dev/null lr-x------ 1 oracle oinstall 64 Dec 8 08:39 3 -> /dev/null lr-x------ 1 oracle oinstall 64 Dec 8 08:39 4 -> /dev/null lr-x------ 1 oracle oinstall 64 Dec 8 08:39 5 -> /u01/app/oracle/product/11201/db_1/rdbms/mesg/oraus.msb lr-x------ 1 oracle oinstall 64 Dec 8 08:39 6 -> /proc/14293/fd lr-x------ 1 oracle oinstall 64 Dec 8 08:39 7 -> /dev/zero lrwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 64 Dec 8 08:39 8 -> /home/oracle/dbcapture/capfiles/inst1/aa/wcr_c6hp4h0000018.rec lr-x------ 1 oracle oinstall 64 Dec 8 08:39 9 -> pipe:[34585894] ?????lsof?? [root@mlab2 ~]# lsof|grep wcr_c6hp4h0000018.rec oracle 14293 oracle 8u REG 8,1 0 17629644 /home/oracle/dbcapture/capfiles/inst1/aa/wcr_c6hp4h0000018.rec ????????,??Server Process????WCR REC??,?Server Process LOGON?????? 3.????SQL??: SQL> select 1 from dual; 1 ---------- 1 SQL> / 1 ---------- 1 [oracle@mlab2 aa]$ strings wcr_c6hp4h0000018.rec ==»????SQL????, ??????? ??????SQL???,???????????????WCR??????,LOGON???????????SQL????,????????? [oracle@mlab2 aa]$ strings wcr_c6hp4h0000018.rec 11.2.0.3.0 *File header info. (Shadow process='14293') D0576B5D710A34F4E043B201A8C0ECFE SYS; NLS_LANGUAGE? AMERICAN> NLS_TERRITORY? AMERICA> NLS_CURRENCY? NLS_ISO_CURRENCY? AMERICA> NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS? NLS_CALENDAR? GREGORIAN> NLS_DATE_FORMAT? DD-MON-RR> NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE? AMERICAN> NLS_CHARACTERSET? AL32UTF8> NLS_SORT? BINARY> NLS_TIME_FORMAT? HH.MI.SSXFF AM> NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT? DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM> NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT? HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR> NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT? DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR> NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY? NLS_SPECIAL_CHARS? NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET? UTF8> NLS_COMP? BINARY> NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS? BYTE> NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP? FALSE (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=beq)(PROGRAM=/u01/app/oracle/product/11201/db_1/bin/oracle)(ARGV0=oracleCRMV)(ARGS='(DESCRIPTION=(LOCAL=YES)(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=beq)))')(DETACH=NO))(CONNECT_DATA=(CID=(PROGRAM=sqlplus)(HOST=mlab2.oracle.com)(USER=oracle)))) ,[email protected] (TNS V1-V3)U tselect spid from v$process where addr = ( select paddr from v$session where sid=(select distinct sid from v$mystat)) ` _ select 1 from dual select 1 from dual ??????????????????? [oracle@mlab2 aa]$ strings wcr_c6hp4h0000018.rec 9`9_^B create table vva(t1 int) `:_i :`:_iB `;_^ ;`;_^B create table vva(t1 int) `_i >`>_iB FusC `?_^ ?`?_^B FvWC _begin for i in 1..50000 loop execute immediate 'select 1 from dual where 2='||i; end loop; end; ?SERVER PROCESS LOGOFF ??????? C`E_ B k^2C ????Server Process????parse?execution???WCR??,??????????PGA?,????????????,????????,?????WCR???????????,???????? 4. ?????? SQL> oradebug setmypid Statement processed. SQL> oradebug dump processstate 10; Statement processed. SQL> oradebug tracefile_name /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/crmv/CRMV/trace/CRMV_ora_14293.trc ?processstate ??????????????? WCR: capture file IO write,??Server process??WCR ?? 3: waited for 'SQL*Net message to client' driver id=0x62657100, #bytes=0x1, =0x0 wait_id=139 seq_num=140 snap_id=1 wait times: snap=0.000007 sec, exc=0.000007 sec, total=0.000007 sec wait times: max=infinite wait counts: calls=0 os=0 occurred after 0.934091 sec of elapsed time 4: waited for 'latch: shared pool' address=0x60106b20, number=0x133, tries=0x0 wait_id=138 seq_num=139 snap_id=1 wait times: snap=0.000066 sec, exc=0.000066 sec, total=0.000066 sec wait times: max=infinite wait counts: calls=0 os=0 occurred after 1.180690 sec of elapsed time 5: waited for 'WCR: capture file IO write' =0x0, =0x0, =0x0 wait_id=137 seq_num=138 snap_id=1 wait times: snap=0.000189 sec, exc=0.000189 sec, total=0.000189 sec wait times: max=infinite wait counts: calls=0 os=0 occurred after 3.122783 sec of elapsed time 6: waited for 'WCR: capture file IO write' =0x0, =0x0, =0x0 wait_id=136 seq_num=137 snap_id=1 wait times: snap=0.000191 sec, exc=0.000191 sec, total=0.000191 sec wait times: max=infinite wait counts: calls=0 os=0 occurred after 3.053132 sec of elapsed time 7: waited for 'WCR: capture file IO write' 5.??PGA???? SQL> oradebug dump heapdump 536870917; Statement processed. grep WCR /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/crmv/CRMV/trace/CRMV_ora_14293.trc Chunk 7fb1b606bfc0 sz= 65600 freeable "WCR Capture PG " ds=0x7fb1b6115f90 Chunk 7fb1b6111e18 sz= 4224 freeable "WCR Capture PG " ds=0x7fb1b6115f90 Chunk 7fb1b6112e98 sz= 4184 freeable "WCR Capture PG " ds=0x7fb1b6115f90 Chunk 7fb1b6113ef0 sz= 4224 freeable "WCR Capture PG " ds=0x7fb1b6115f90 Chunk 7fb1b6114f70 sz= 4104 recreate "WCR Capture PG " latch=(nil) Chunk 7fb1b6115f78 sz= 160 freeable "WCR Capture PGA" Chunk 7fb1b6116018 sz= 3248 freeable "WCR Capture PGA" Subheap ds=0x7fb1b6115f90 heap name= WCR Capture PG size= 82336 HEAP DUMP heap name="WCR Capture PG" desc=0x7fb1b6115f90 FIVE LARGEST SUB HEAPS for heap name="WCR Capture PG" desc=0x7fb1b6115f9 PGA???WCR Capture PG ?WCR Capture PGA?freeable or recreate??chunk,???????Server Process???OS Chunk 7fb1b606bfc0 sz= 65600 freeable "WCR Capture PG " ds=0x7fb1b6115f90 sz= 65600=» 64k ??????????64k??,???????????????64k WCR????????????:)! 6.???? ??WCR CAPTURE????????2? SQL> SELECT x.ksppinm NAME, y.ksppstvl VALUE, x.ksppdesc describ 2 FROM SYS.x$ksppi x, SYS.x$ksppcv y 3 WHERE x.inst_id = USERENV ('Instance') 4 AND y.inst_id = USERENV ('Instance') 5 AND x.indx = y.indx 6 AND x.ksppinm in ('_capture_buffer_size','_wcr_control'); NAME VALUE DESCRIB -------------------- -------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ _wcr_control 0 Oracle internal test WCR parameter used ONLY for testing! _capture_buffer_size 65536 To set the size of the PGA I/O recording buffers ??_capture_buffer_size ??PGA?WCR BUFFER?SIZE,???64k _wcr_control ??WCR?????,?????? ????,??????: 1. ???WCR WORKLOAD CAPTURE???????????,??Server Process????(????)2. ???server process????WCR??3. Server Proess???LOGON?LOGOFF?SQL?????????WCR???4. Server Process????????Immediate mode,????????PGA?(WCR Capture) subheap?,??????????????(timeout?????)5. ????, Server Process????????Immediate mode,?capture????parse??execution??(?????capture???parse?????????????,parse????capture???),?????LOGON?SQL??(???????)??PGA?WCR Capture?????,???????,????????,??tpcc??????4.5%6. ????_capture_buffer_size ??PGA?WCR BUFFER?SIZE,???64k7. WCR Capture?????binrary 2????,?????,????????????????WCR capture file8. WCR: capture file IO write?????Server Process??WCR??

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  • The Shift: how Orchard painlessly shifted to document storage, and how it’ll affect you

    - by Bertrand Le Roy
    We’ve known it all along. The storage for Orchard content items would be much more efficient using a document database than a relational one. Orchard content items are composed of parts that serialize naturally into infoset kinds of documents. Storing them as relational data like we’ve done so far was unnatural and requires the data for a single item to span multiple tables, related through 1-1 relationships. This means lots of joins in queries, and a great potential for Select N+1 problems. Document databases, unfortunately, are still a tough sell in many places that prefer the more familiar relational model. Being able to x-copy Orchard to hosters has also been a basic constraint in the design of Orchard. Combine those with the necessity at the time to run in medium trust, and with license compatibility issues, and you’ll find yourself with very few reasonable choices. So we went, a little reluctantly, for relational SQL stores, with the dream of one day transitioning to document storage. We have played for a while with the idea of building our own document storage on top of SQL databases, and Sébastien implemented something more than decent along those lines, but we had a better way all along that we didn’t notice until recently… In Orchard, there are fields, which are named properties that you can add dynamically to a content part. Because they are so dynamic, we have been storing them as XML into a column on the main content item table. This infoset storage and its associated API are fairly generic, but were only used for fields. The breakthrough was when Sébastien realized how this existing storage could give us the advantages of document storage with minimal changes, while continuing to use relational databases as the substrate. public bool CommercialPrices { get { return this.Retrieve(p => p.CommercialPrices); } set { this.Store(p => p.CommercialPrices, value); } } This code is very compact and efficient because the API can infer from the expression what the type and name of the property are. It is then able to do the proper conversions for you. For this code to work in a content part, there is no need for a record at all. This is particularly nice for site settings: one query on one table and you get everything you need. This shows how the existing infoset solves the data storage problem, but you still need to query. Well, for those properties that need to be filtered and sorted on, you can still use the current record-based relational system. This of course continues to work. We do however provide APIs that make it trivial to store into both record properties and the infoset storage in one operation: public double Price { get { return Retrieve(r => r.Price); } set { Store(r => r.Price, value); } } This code looks strikingly similar to the non-record case above. The difference is that it will manage both the infoset and the record-based storages. The call to the Store method will send the data in both places, keeping them in sync. The call to the Retrieve method does something even cooler: if the property you’re looking for exists in the infoset, it will return it, but if it doesn’t, it will automatically look into the record for it. And if that wasn’t cool enough, it will take that value from the record and store it into the infoset for the next time it’s required. This means that your data will start automagically migrating to infoset storage just by virtue of using the code above instead of the usual: public double Price { get { return Record.Price; } set { Record.Price = value; } } As your users browse the site, it will get faster and faster as Select N+1 issues will optimize themselves away. If you preferred, you could still have explicit migration code, but it really shouldn’t be necessary most of the time. If you do already have code using QueryHints to mitigate Select N+1 issues, you might want to reconsider those, as with the new system, you’ll want to avoid joins that you don’t need for filtering or sorting, further optimizing your queries. There are some rare cases where the storage of the property must be handled differently. Check out this string[] property on SearchSettingsPart for example: public string[] SearchedFields { get { return (Retrieve<string>("SearchedFields") ?? "") .Split(new[] {',', ' '}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries); } set { Store("SearchedFields", String.Join(", ", value)); } } The array of strings is transformed by the property accessors into and from a comma-separated list stored in a string. The Retrieve and Store overloads used in this case are lower-level versions that explicitly specify the type and name of the attribute to retrieve or store. You may be wondering what this means for code or operations that look directly at the database tables instead of going through the new infoset APIs. Even if there is a record, the infoset version of the property will win if it exists, so it is necessary to keep the infoset up-to-date. It’s not very complicated, but definitely something to keep in mind. Here is what a product record looks like in Nwazet.Commerce for example: And here is the same data in the infoset: The infoset is stored in Orchard_Framework_ContentItemRecord or Orchard_Framework_ContentItemVersionRecord, depending on whether the content type is versionable or not. A good way to find what you’re looking for is to inspect the record table first, as it’s usually easier to read, and then get the item record of the same id. Here is the detailed XML document for this product: <Data> <ProductPart Inventory="40" Price="18" Sku="pi-camera-box" OutOfStockMessage="" AllowBackOrder="false" Weight="0.2" Size="" ShippingCost="null" IsDigital="false" /> <ProductAttributesPart Attributes="" /> <AutoroutePart DisplayAlias="camera-box" /> <TitlePart Title="Nwazet Pi Camera Box" /> <BodyPart Text="[...]" /> <CommonPart CreatedUtc="2013-09-10T00:39:00Z" PublishedUtc="2013-09-14T01:07:47Z" /> </Data> The data is neatly organized under each part. It is easy to see how that document is all you need to know about that content item, all in one table. If you want to modify that data directly in the database, you should be careful to do it in both the record table and the infoset in the content item record. In this configuration, the record is now nothing more than an index, and will only be used for sorting and filtering. Of course, it’s perfectly fine to mix record-backed properties and record-less properties on the same part. It really depends what you think must be sorted and filtered on. In turn, this potentially simplifies migrations considerably. So here it is, the great shift of Orchard to document storage, something that Orchard has been designed for all along, and that we were able to implement with a satisfying and surprising economy of resources. Expect this code to make its way into the 1.8 version of Orchard when that’s available.

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  • Windows Phone Developer Spotlight: Nikolai Joukov

    - by Lori Lalonde
    Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/lorilalonde/archive/2014/06/04/windows-phone-developer-spotlight-nikolai-joukov.aspxAs part of an ongoing series, I plan to include a spotlight post on people within the community that are stars in their field and area of expertise. For my first spotlight post, I interviewed Nikolai Joukov, who is a regular attendee at my local area .NET User Group (CTTDNUG), and has also participated in many of the Mobile and Cloud workshops we have hosted over the past few years. Nikolai stood out immediately, because of his passion for developing mobile apps, his interest in continuous learning, and his drive to publish quality apps that people will find useful and entertaining. Background: Nikolai immigrated to Canada in 1995, and has been working in IT since 1997. He moved on to become an independent contractor in 2005, and has worked at various large scale organizations over the course of his career, including BMO, Enbridge, Economical Insurance, Equitable Life, Manulife and Sun Life. Nikolai is an accomplished Windows Phone and Windows Store publisher, with 11 published Windows Phone apps, and 8 published Windows Store apps. He has almost 6000 downloads and favourable reviews. Q & A with Nikolai How many years have you been developing Windows Phone apps? 2 years When did you develop your very first Windows Phone app, and what was it about? Actually, the very first app I wrote was for the Microsoft “Smart Phone” back in 2004. This phone was given to me by Microsoft during the Developers Days Conference in Toronto. It was some kind of experimental model named Smart Phone, but you had to use VB 3 to develop the applications. Needless to say, this was not very successful at that time. My app was a Stock Trades Calculator. Very primitive, but it was working for me. The phone was heavy and the battery barely lasted 4 hours. Microsoft stopped supporting it few months later and the phone stopped working shortly after, but I still have it as a souvenir. For Windows Phone, my first app was “Trip Packing Assistant”. This is a simple trip packing check list that allows you to list items by category, set required quantity of items, and mark off the item in the list when it is packed. I designed it for me and my wife Galina, since we love to travel and this program helps manage our list for us. How did you get started in Windows Phone development? I have to say thanks to our .NET User Group for introducing me to Windows Phone development. I was intrigued and decided to give it a try. In October 2012 during a 2 day training event that ObjectSharp hosted in London, I met Bruce Johnson. On his advice, I registered for Developer Movement, and it is was a good push to actually complete the apps that I started. You have a great series of travel guide apps both for Windows Phone and Windows Store. Tell us about how you came up with the idea to develop those apps and what process you went through to put it all together. Like I said earlier, my wife and I love to travel. Before I created Trip Packing Assistant, every time we were planning to travel somewhere new, Galina would spend 3-4 weeks doing research. She would create a Word document with all of the information. We didn’t want to have to carry our laptop with us all the time, so we printed out the Word document she created, and would take it with us. After we returned from the trip, we would bring back tons of pictures and materials. Then our friends started to ask us about our materials before they planned their trips to the same places we had visited. So I decided to give it a try and started making apps for Windows Phone and for Windows 8. I hope these applications will help people who are planning to travel. So, all of the pictures used in the travel apps you created were actually taken by you during these amazing trips? Yes Do you have another Windows Store/Windows Phone project in development right now? If so, can you give us a hint at what it will be about? I want to stay with travel apps for now. But this time I will try to write an app for us (Galina and I). Usually we go on the trip, then I write the apps after we have all this beautiful pictures in our hands. We are planning a trip to Rome. This app will not have the pictures, but I want to add a map with points of interest and all information that can be useful for us. Then we will go on our trip and test it on location. As well I am planning to work on my existing apps to make them better. What learning resources would you recommend for other developers that want to get started in Window Store and Windows Phone development? I would start with dev.windowsphone.com to get all tools and samples, also links to training materials. I like MVA (Microsoft Virtual Academy). Their videos are really useful and it is free. Pluralsight is good too but it is not free and I do not have a subscription anymore. Our .NET User Group meetings give good insights too. I went to all meetings and full day training events. When you start to develop your app, you need to do research for specific questions that arise during development. The Developer Portal and Nokia Developer are good resources too. Wrap Up Thanks Nikolai for participating in my first Spotlight blog post! Shown below is Nikolai’s publisher page in the Windows Phone Store and his publisher page in the Windows Store. Simply click on it to be taken to there to check out his portfolio of apps. Be sure to download his apps and try them out! They are all free! Nikolai’s Windows Phone apps   Nikolai’s Windows Store Apps

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  • HTG Explains: Should You Buy Extended Warranties?

    - by Chris Hoffman
    Buy something at an electronics store and you’ll be confronted by a pushy salesperson who insists you need an extended warranty. You’ll also see extended warranties pushed hard when shopping online. But are they worth it? There’s a reason stores push extended warranties so hard. They’re almost always pure profit for the store involved. An electronics store may live on razor-thin product margins and make big profits on extended warranties and overpriced HDMI cables. You’re Already Getting Multiple Warranties First, back up. The product you’re buying already includes a warranty. In fact, you’re probably getting several different types of warranties. Store Return and Exchange: Most electronics stores allow you to return a malfunctioning product within the first 15 or 30 days and they’ll provide you with a new one. The exact period of time will vary from store to store. If you walk out of the store with a defective product and have to swap it for a new one within the first few weeks, this should be easy. Manufacturer Warranty: A device’s manufacturer — whether the device is a laptop, a television, or a graphics card — offers their own warranty period. The manufacturer warranty covers you after the store refuses to take the product back and exchange it. The length of this warranty depends on the type of product. For example, a cheap laptop may only offer a one-year manufacturer warranty, while a more expensive laptop may offer a two-year warranty. Credit Card Warranty Extension: Many credit cards offer free extended warranties on products you buy with that credit card. Credit card companies will often give you an additional year of warranty. For example, if you buy a laptop with a two year warranty and it fails in the third year, you could then contact your credit card company and they’d cover the cost of fixing or replacing it. Check your credit card’s benefits and fine print for more information. Why Extended Warranties Are Bad You’re already getting a fairly long warranty period, especially if you have a credit card that offers you a free extended warranty — these are fairly common. If the product you get is a “lemon” and has a manufacturing error, it will likely fail pretty soon — well within your warranty period. The extended warranty matters after all your other warranties are exhausted. In the case of a laptop with a two-year warranty that you purchase with a credit card giving you a one-year warranty extension, your extended warranty will kick in three years after you purchase the laptop. In that many years, your current laptop will likely feel pretty old and laptops that are as good — or better — will likely be pretty cheap. If it’s a television, better television displays will be available at a lower price point. You’ll either want to upgrade to a newer model or you’ll be able to buy a new, just-as-good product for very cheap. You’ll only have to pay out-of-pocket if your device fails after the normal warranty period — in over two or three years for typical laptops purchased with a decent credit card. Save the money you would have spent on the warranty and put it towards a future upgrade. How Much Do Extended Warranties Cost? Let’s look at an example from a typical pushy retail outlet, Best Buy. We went to Best Buy’s website and found a pretty standard $600 Samsung laptop. This laptop comes with a one-year warranty period. If purchased with a fairly common credit card, you can easily get a two-year warranty period on this laptop without spending an additional penny. (Yes, such credit cards are available with no yearly fees.) During the check-out process, Best Buy tries to sell you a Geek Squad “Accidental Protection Plan.” To get an additional year of Best Buy’s extended warranty, you’d have to pay $324.98 for a “3-Year Accidental Protection Plan”. You’d basically be paying more than half the price of your laptop for an additional year of warranty — remember, the standard warranties would cover you anyway for the first two years. If this laptop did break sometime between two and three years from now, we wouldn’t be surprised if you could purchase a comparable laptop for about $325 anyway. And, if you don’t need to replace it, you’ve saved that money. Best Buy would object that this isn’t a standard extended warranty. It’s a supercharged warranty plan that will also provide coverage if you spill something on your laptop or drop it and break it. You just have to ask yourself a question. What are the odds that you’ll drop your laptop or spill something on it? They’re probably pretty low if you’re a typical human being. Is it worth spending more than half the price of the laptop just in case you’ll make an uncommon mistake? Probably not. There may be occasional exceptions to this — some Apple users swear by Apple’s AppleCare, for example — but you should generally avoid buying these things. There’s a reason stores are so pushy about extended warranties, and it’s not because they want to help protect you. It’s because they’re making lots of profit from these plans, and they’re making so much profit because they’re not a good deal for customers. Image Credit: Philip Taylor on Flickr     

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  • Essential Business Server

    - by Dan
    We are trying to run the Preparation Wizard for Essential Business Server 2008 and receive the following error. "A list of servers could not be collected from Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). Ensure that your network is functioning correctly and that this computer can access AD DS." Our network is an Windows Server 2003 network with all of the services running fine. I can't run this from either a machine or a server. Any idea where we should start?

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  • .NET ExcelLibrary Export Problems - .XLS corruption

    - by hamlin11
    The library is located here: http://code.google.com/p/excellibrary/ I'm using some basic code to create an .XLS file. When I open the file in Excel 2007, I get the following errors: I click yes, then I get: And just for fun, here's the XML error details (not very helpful) Here's the code that I'm using to generate the Excel file: Dim ds As New DataSet Dim dt1 As New DataTable("table 1") dt1.Columns.Add("column A", GetType(String)) dt1.Columns.Add("column B", GetType(String)) dt1.Rows.Add("test 1", "Test 2") dt1.Rows.Add("test 3", "Test 4") ds.Tables.Add(dt1) ExcelLibrary.DataSetHelper.CreateWorkbook("c:/temp/test1.xls", ds) Note: I added a reference to the DLL provided by the project download page and have an "Imports ExcelLibrary.Office.Excel" to link up with it Any ideas on what the corruption is and/or how to fix it? Thanks

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  • php doctrine last identifier issue

    - by mike
    I'm running in to the issue below when trying to run the following: $store = new Store(); $store->url =$this->form_validation->set_value('website'); $store->save(); $store_id = $store->identifier(); Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Doctrine_Connection_Exception' with message 'Couldn't get last insert identifier.' in /home/yummm/public_html/system/application/plugins/doctrine/lib/Doctrine/Connection/UnitOfWork.php:932 Stack trace: #0 /home/yummm/public_html/system/application/plugins/doctrine/lib/Doctrine/Connection/UnitOfWork.php(632): Doctrine_Connection_UnitOfWork->_assignIdentifier(Object(Category_store_assn)) #1 /home/yummm/public_html/system/application/plugins/doctrine/lib/Doctrine/Connection/UnitOfWork.php(562): Doctrine_Connection_UnitOfWork->processSingleInsert(Object(Category_store_assn)) #2 /home/yummm/public_html/system/application/plugins/doctrine/lib/Doctrine/Connection/UnitOfWork.php(81): Doctrine_Connection_UnitOfWork->insert(Object(Category_store_assn)) #3 /home/yummm/public_html/system/application/plugins/doctrine/lib/Doctrine/Record.php(1691): Doctrine_Connection_UnitOfWork->saveGraph(Object(Category_store_assn)) #4 /home/yummm/public_html/system/application/controllers/auth.php(375): Doctrine_Reco in /home/yummm/public_html/system/application/plugins/doctrine/lib/Doctrine/Connection/UnitOfWork.php on line 932 When I echo $store_id, it seems to be grabbing the last id without any issues. Any idea why this error keeps coming up even though the ID is passing correctly?

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  • WCF Data Services implementation strategies.

    - by Nix
    Microsoft has done a savvy job of not outlining the actual place for data services in the wonderful world of SOA/Web dev. So my question is simple, are WCF Data Services designed to be used via clients? Or has anyone ever heard of someone using them on the server side? Simple scenario a general layered architecture using BO business objects (parenthesis indicate what is being passed between layers) (XML) WCF Service - (BO)Business Logic - (BO) Dao - Entity Framework or using data services it would be where DS BO are modeled business entities to be used in data service. (XML) WCF Service -(BO) Business Logic - (BO) WCF Data Service - (DS BO)Server I can't see a use for the later, unless there are going to be a lot of cases people would be accessing your data via your Data Service Layer vs the Service layer? Thoughts anyone? I have not seen any mention of using DS from within a Service Layer....

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  • Using TCPDF and FPDI with cake php

    - by kwhohasamullet
    Hi Guys, I have go TCPDF setup in my cake php install and am now trying to also use FPDI with it as i need to add a PDF to the start of the PDF that is being generated. WHen trying to do this i am using 3 classes XTCPDF which holds my header data FPDI - FPDI class TCPDF - TCPDF class and it is setup as so: XTCPDF extends FPDI FPDI extends TCPDF When i try and generate a PDF with this using commands from teh FPDI classs i get the following error: Fatal error: Cannot access protected property XTCPDF::$PDFVersion in C:\Program Files\XAMPP\xampp\htdocs\quote\app\vendors\fpdi\fpdi_pdf_parser.php on line 388 Im thinking this may be a scope problem but im not too sure, i have also tested by changing it around to not include XTCPDF class but the same error occurs, EDIT: The code that i am using that accesses the FPDI class is: $tcpdf->setSourceFile(APP.'webroot'.DS.'img'.DS.'pdf'.DS.'front_cover.pdf'); $frontCover = $tcpdf->importPage(1); $tcpdf->useTemplate($frontCover); Thanks in advance for any help :D

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  • Reading DBF with VFPOLEDB driver problem.

    - by John Sheares
    I am using VFPOLEDB driver to read DBF files and I keep getting this error and I am not sure why and how to fix the problem: The provider could not determine the Decimal value. For example, the row was just created, the default for the Decimal column was not available, and the consumer had not yet set a new Decimal value. Here is the code. I call this routine to return a DataSet of the DBF file and display the data in a DataGridView. public DataSet GetDBFData(FileInfo fi, string tbl) { using (OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection( @"Provider=VFPOLEDB.1;Data Source=" + fi.DirectoryName + ";")) { conn.Open(); string command = "SELECT * FROM " + tbl; OleDbDataAdapter da = new OleDbDataAdapter(command, conn); DataSet ds = new DataSet(); da.Fill(ds); return ds; } }

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  • How to read XML from the internet using a Web Proxy?

    - by Mark Allison
    This is a follow-up to this question: How to load XML into a DataTable? I want to read an XML file on the internet into a DataTable. The XML file is here: http://rates.fxcm.com/RatesXML If I do: public DataTable GetCurrentFxPrices(string url) { WebProxy wp = new WebProxy("http://mywebproxy:8080", true); wp.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials; WebClient wc = new WebClient(); wc.Proxy = wp; MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(wc.DownloadData(url)); DataSet ds = new DataSet("fxPrices"); ds.ReadXml(ms); DataTable dt = ds.Tables["Rate"]; return dt; } It works fine. I'm struggling with how to use the default proxy set in Internet Explorer. I don't want to hard-code the proxy. I also want the code to work if no proxy is specified in Internet Explorer.

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  • Core Data multi-threading

    - by JK
    My app starts by presenting a tableview whose datasource is a Core Data SQLite store. When the app starts, a secondary thread with its own store controller and context is created to obtain updates from the web for data in the store. However, any resulting changes to the store are not notified to the fetchedresults controller (I presume because it has its own coordinator) and consequently the table is not updated with store changes. What would be the most efficient way to refresh the context on the main thread? I am considering tracking the objectIDs of any objects changed on the secondary thread, sending those to the main thread when the secondary thread completes and invoking "[context refreshObject:....] Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  • Sort data using DataView

    - by Kristina Fiedalan
    I have a DataGridView with column Remarks (Passed, Failed). For example, I want to show all the records Failed in the column Remarks using DataView, how do I do that? Thank you. Here's the code I'm working on: ds.Tables["Grades"].PrimaryKey = new DataColumn[] { ds.Tables["Grades"].Columns["StudentID"] }; DataRow dRow = ds.Tables["Students"].Rows.Find(txtSearch.Text); DataView dataView = new DataView(dt); dataView.RowFilter = "Remarks = " + txtSearch.Text; dgvReport.DataSource = dataView;

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  • ExtJS combo setting problem

    - by Hubidubi
    Hi I run into an interesting problem while was using combos in input form. My form contains combos that get data from json stores. It works fine when adding new record, but when the form is opened for editing an existing record, sometimes the id appears as selected not its value (eg: there's 5 instead of "apple"). I think it tries to set the value before it finishes loading the combo. Is there a way to solve this? I put the code down here that creates combos: function dictComboMaker( store, fieldLabel, hiddenName, name, allowBlank, myToolTipp ) { comboo = { xtype : 'combo', id: 'id-'+name, allowBlank: allowBlank, fieldLabel : fieldLabel, forceSelection : true, displayField : 'value', valueField : 'id', editable: false, name: name, hiddenName : hiddenName, minChars : 2, mode: 'remote', triggerAction : 'all', store : store }; function dictJsonMaker(url) { store = new Ext.data.JsonStore({ root : 'results', // 1 fields : [ 'id','value' ], url : url, autoLoad: true}); return store; } var comboKarStore = dictJsonMaker('/service/karok'); var comboKar= dictComboMaker(comboKarStore, 'Kar', 'karid', 'kar', false, ''); // then comboKar is added to the form Hubidubi

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