Category Archives: Database

WordPress Plugin: Subtraction Style Archives

Looking for a new way to display your WordPress archives page? Look no further, you’ve found the Subtraction Style Archives plugin. The Subtraction Style Archives plugin provides functionality which will allow you to generate an archive page similar to that … Continue reading

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Oracle ORA-04030 Application Errors

Recently I posted about an ORA-04030 Oracle error we received at work. At the end of many hours of pain, the solution was to swap the apparently damaged physical memory for fresh sticks of memory. This post is a follow … Continue reading

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ORA-04030: out of process memory when trying to allocate <x> bytes

Quite some time ago, we encountered a very strange Oracle problem at work: ORA-04030: out of process memory when trying to allocate <number> bytes Initially, the problem was intermittent then its frequency increased. Soon enough, you could nearly generate the … Continue reading

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WordPress Performance

In the last month or two, I’ve begun writing some simple plugins for WordPress and I’ve been a little frustrated by one of the application/database design decisions which have been made. Most web sites consist predominantly of read activity and … Continue reading

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IIS Dropping Sessions

You might have noticed that at times, it appears that IIS6 is losing or dropping your ASP.net session information. After looking around under the hood of IIS, there are a couple settings in IIS6 which can affect the consistency of … Continue reading

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