Locking and Unlocking Oracle Accounts
To lock an Oracle user account open sqlplus and execute:alter user <username> account lock;To unlock an Oracle user account open sqlplus and execute:alter user <username> account unlock;
View ArticleFinding blocked Oracle sessions and killing them
Here's a handy bit of SQL which will find blocked sessions in your Oracle database:select blocking_session, sid, serial#, sql_id, wait_class,seconds_in_waitfrom v$sessionwhere blocking_session is not...
View ArticleGrabbing a Twitter feed using the Universal Feed Parser library
When this blog was hosted on Wordpress I used a Twitter plugin which would connect to my Twitter feed and display my recent tweets. Since I recently moved over to Google App Engine I needed to recreate...
View ArticleFlex and XML over HTTP
I’ve recently been building a flex based GUI and wanted to populate certain UI components using some XML returned via a Java Servlet. I thought this would be very simple using the mx:xml tag. However...
View ArticleStaleConnectionException
The StaleConnectionException comes about when an application tries to use a connection in the connection pool which is invalid.An invalid connection can occur for a number of reasons however in my...
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APM Survey from AppDynamics
Here's an interesting Infographic from AppDynamics summarising results from a recent survey they conducted around application performance. Pretty fascinating percentages around the number of...
View ArticleMy 2012 New Year's Resolution - More APM Blogging
Happy New Year!My New Year's resolution is to update this blog more, particularly with posts on Application Performance Monitoring products. This market is growing fast and becoming increasingly more...
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APM Market Disruptors - AppDynamics and New Relic
Over the past five years I've worked with many large enterprises to help them deploy, manage and optimise their application performance toolsets (and their applications for that matter). I've...
View Article10 Free Website Uptime Monitoring Services
Nice list of free synthetic monitoring sites:http://www.mashgeek.com/website-uptime-monitoring-services/1078/Good for up/down metrics and outage stats.
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