I'd like to slice and dice large datafiles, up to a gig, in a fairly quick and efficient manner. If I use something like UNIX's "CUT", it's extremely fast, even in a CYGWIN environment. I've tried developing and benchmarking various Ruby scripts to process these files, and always end up with glacial results. What would you do in Ru...
I've been trying to access the dba_data_files table to see whether the autoextend is turned on for my data files. However, even though I'm using Oracle 10g, this table seems to not exist: Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options SQL> select...
I have a database backup for which SQL Server Management Studio says that it has three files in it: an .mdf file, an .ndf file and one .ldf file. This secondary data file (the .ndf one) was created for no obvious reason, so I want to remove it altogether (without losing data, of course), preferably during while the database is being rest...
What is a "Visual Studio SharePoint Package file" (.package)? I am trying to extract some data and this is the only file that looks large enough to contain what I'm after. ...
Primarily this seems to be a technique used by games, where they have all the sounds in one file, textures in another etc. With these files commonly reaching the GB size. What is the reason behind doing this over maintaining it all in subdirectories as small files - one per texture which many small games use this, with the monolithic sy...