Accessing MySQL Database(s) from StarOffice / OpenOffice.org Suite of Applications

This blog post is organized into two major sections and several sub-sections. The major sections focus on the tasks to be performed at the MySQL server and the *Office client while the sub-sections talk about the steps to be performed in detail.To show the examples in this exercise, we will be creating a new MySQL database user with user ID SOUSER. This new user will be granted read-only access to couple of tables in a MySQL database called ISVe....

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PeopleSoft North American Payroll on Sun Solaris with F5100 Flash Array : A blog Reprise

(Copied from my other blog at blogs.sun.com. Original post is at: http://blogs.sun.com/mandalika/entry/peoplesoft_north_american_payroll_on)During the "Sun day" keynote at OOW 09, John Fowler stated that we are #1 in PeopleSoft North American Payroll performance. Later Vince Carbone from our Performance Technologies group went on comparing our benchmark numbers with HP's and IBM's in BestPerf's group blog at Oracle PeopleSoft Payroll (NA) Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 and Sun Storage F5100 World Record Performance. Meanwhile Jeorg Moellenkamp had...

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Java Code to Convert TWiki URLs to HTML Links

Few days ago I was looking for some code or tool with the ability to convert TWiki URLs to equivalent HTML URLs. (For the uninitiated, TWiki supports wide variety of URL formats in addition to the standard HTML format.). I spent almost 3 hours searching the web and trying out different code, Java classes etc., But at the end, none of the things that I found elsewhere seems to have the ability to convert almost all the TWiki URL formats that I'm trying to convert [to HTML]. So, I gave up looking for some readymade code and quickly wrote some Java...

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Sun achieves the Magic Number 50,000 on T5440 with Oracle Business Intelligence EE 10.1.3.4

Less than two months ago, Sun Microsystems published an Oracle Business Intelligence benchmark with the best single system performance of 28,000 concurrent BI EE users at ~75% CPU utilization. Sun and Oracle Corporation announced another Oracle Business Intelligence benchmark result today with two identical T5440 servers in the Oracle BI Cluster serving 50,000 concurrent BI EE users.An Oracle white paper with Sun's 50,000 user benchmark results can...

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Hindi Music - V.Man's Recommendations

*****1. Race - Race is On My Mind2. Bluff Master - Right Here Right Now3. Rang De Basanti - Pathshala4. Bhool Bhulaiya - Hare Rama Hare Krishna****1. Pyar Tu Ne Kya Kiya - Kambakth Ishq2. Bluff Master - Bure Bure3. Dus - Deedar De4. Cash - Title Song5. Dhoom 2 - Dhoom Again6. Dus - Dus Bahane7. Delhi 6 - Masakali8. Cash - Mind Blowing Mahiya9. Tashan - Chaliya Chaliya10. Shootout at Lokhandwala - Ganapat11. Blue - Chiggy Wiggy***1. What's Your Rashee - Chehre Jo Dekhe Hain2. Taxi No 9211 - Meter Down3. Main Aur Mrs Khanna - Happening4. 13B - Oh...

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T5440 Rocks [again] with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Workload

A while ago, I blogged about how we scaled Siebel 8.0 up to 14,000 concurrent users by consolidating the entire Siebel stack on a single Sun SPARC® Enterprise T5440 server with 4 x 1.4 GHz eight-core UltraSPARC® T2 Plus Processors. OLTP workload was used in that performance benchmark effort.We repeated a similar effort by collaborating with Oracle Corporation, but with an OLAP workload this time around. Today Sun and Oracle announced the 28,000 user...

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Oracle Business Intelligence on Sun : Few Best Practices

The following suggested best practices are applicable to all Oracle BI EE deployments on Sun hardware (CMT and M-class) running Solaris 10 or later. These recommendations are based on our observations from the 28,000 user benchmark on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440. It is not the complete list, and your mileage may vary. Ensure that the system's firmware is up-to-date. Check the Sun System Firmware Release Hub for the latest firmware. Upgrade to the...

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Instructions to Create a Facebook Application

Here is a quick HOW-To document with step-by-step instructions to create a simple Facebook application. Create an account with Facebook at facebook.com To create an application in Facebook, go to Facebook Developers web site Click on Set Up New Application. Name the Appliaction and click on save changes. Enter a brief description for the application. On the left side of the page click on Canvas. Fill the application name in Canvas Page URL field....

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Oracle Business Intelligence : Workaround / Solution to "[46036] Internal Assertion" Error

Symptom:When checking in changes to Oracle BI repository (RPD), Admintool fails with an error message: [46036] Internal Assertion: Condition FALSE, file server/Utility/Generic/NQThreads/SUGThread.cpp, line 515Solution / Workaround:Edit <BI_HOME>/server/Config/NQSConfig.INI configuration file to increase the value of SERVER_THREAD_STACK_SIZE parameter. Replace the line SERVER_THREAD_STACK_SIZE = 0; with SERVER_THREAD_STACK_SIZE = 512 KB;...

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Mac OS X 10.5 Tip: Outgoing Only sendmail

By default, sendmail is disabled on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). If you just want to enable/disable sending outgoing mail, run the following highlighted commands.% sudo postfix startPassword:postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system% netstat -an | grep LIST | grep 25tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.25 *.* LISTEN% sudo postfix stoppostfix/postfix-script: stopping the Postfix mail system% netstat -an | grep LIST | grep 25%One of several possible error messages [that might have lead you to this page] is pasted...

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Installing Siebel Web Extension (SWE) on top of Sun Java System Web Server 7.0

As of today, Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 is not a certified platform to deploy Siebel 8.0 enterprise on. We are working with Oracle Corporation to make this certification happen so our customers can take advantage of the performance optimizations that went into the web server release 7.0.Meanwhile those who want to give it a try can do so with little effort. In release SJSWS 7.0, the start/stop/restart/.. scripts were appropriately relocated to...

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Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Database Tier on Solaris 10 x64

The long wait for this certification is over. Oracle Corporation finally announced support for Solaris 10 x64 as the certified E-Business Suite platform for the database tier. Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (12.0.4) is now certified with Oracle Database Server 10g R2 version 10.2.0.4 on the 'database tier only' (previously known as 'split configuration' in 11i) platform Sun Solaris x86/64.The following Metalink documents might be of interest...

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