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Frankie’s Deli
Frankie’s Deli is a quick deli store in Yorktown Center, Lombard, Illinois. It is close to my current work location. In my opinion, this deli store makes the best sandwiches at unbeatable prices. All ingredients are top quality. My favorites are: 1. Frankie’s special, with imported capicola, marinated eggplant, and optional provolone cheese. You get…
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Seeking mobile communication advice
I am going through some changes, dear reader: I have decided to quit my corporate day job and start my own consulting/training business, starting on April 9th, 2007. I could use your help here: I’d appreciate it greatly if you could offer me leads on Sql Server, Oracle, and MySQL consulting and training gigs. I…
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A few handy Sql Server tips
Here are a few handy tips I learned lately: 1. When using sp_configure, you don’t need to type the whole parameter string. You just need to type enough of it for Sql Server to be uniquely identify it. For example, sp_configure ‘show ad’ will resolve to sp_configure ‘show advanced’ 2. In Query Analyzer or Management…
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美国太子党
Todd Stroger, son of former Cook County Board President John Stroger, was elected to his father’s position recently. John had to resign due to a stroke last year, after serving tirelessly and heroically for 12 years, on behalf of good ‘ol tax-paying residents of Cook County, yours truly included. He left with 500 million dollars…
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Monitoring error logs in Oracle and Sql Server
In Oracle, there are 3 places that I know of that are important for monitoring: the bdump, where background process error is stored; udump, where user trace error is dumped; and cdump, the core dump, where Oracle internal error is dumped. cdump is in the binary format, you can use “strings -a” to look at…