Month: November 2016

  • Hierarchy of Credibility

    Hierarchy of credibility: Journals Conferences Academic books Manufacturer’s white papers & internally published papers Wikipedia/Webpodia Web blogs Manufacturer’s white papers may not be considered as credible as journals or conference papers as there will be a degree of bias toward their own service or product. The white paper will also likely not have gone through…

  • Conferences

    Academic conference papers and presentations represent current position – point research has reached. Not usually completed work but tentative conclusions are drawn based on results obtained so far, Level of review not necessarily as high as journal.

  • Kill Oracle processes in Unix

    Found this article from Donald Burleson (Burleson Consulting) on his website which gives a very good example of how to identify and kill processes associated with a specific ORACLE_SID. ps -ef|grep $ORACLE_SID| grep -v grep|awk ‘{print $2}’|xargs -i kill -9 {}  Check out the original article and take a look around his website as there are other…