Monday 27 June 2011

Windows : Alt-tab problems

go to "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\System" [wich shows
information about windows edition, system , activation & …]

on the right click on "advanced system settings"

under the "advanced" tab under "performance" click on "settings"

under "visual effects" tab click on custom and check all of the items on
the list and after that click ok .... I hope it works for you!

Friday 24 June 2011

Oracle : Startup 9.2 dataguard

startup nomount
alter database mount standby database;
alter database recover managed standby database disconnect;

Netapps : Delete blocking locks

* Log on to netapp filer
To view locks - priv set diag; lock status -f
 To delete locks - priv set diag; sm_mon -l [servername]


Friday 17 June 2011

Linux : Yum - installing a specific version

To get all versions of a package in a repo
* yum search --showduplicates  mercurial
* Then install with full name
yum install mercurial-1.7.2-1.el5.rf.x86_6

Wednesday 8 June 2011

Visual Studio : Disable vshost generation

The Visual Studio hosting process improves debugger performance and enables new debugger features, such as partial-trust debugging and design-time expression evaluation. You can disable the hosting process if you need to.
To disable the hosting process
* Open a project in Visual Studio.
* On the Project menu, click Properties.
* Click the Debug tab.
* Clear the Enable the Visual Studio hosting process check box.

Thursday 2 June 2011

Oracle : Dropping queue tables

alter session set events '10851 trace name context forever, level 2'" , followed by a DROP TABLE tname