ucp

Effort Estimation based on Use Case Points

As of now I have done effort estimation based on experience and recently using function points. I am now exploring UCP, read this article http://www.codeproject.com/KB/architecture/usecasep.aspx. I then checked various other articles based on Use Case Points (UCP). I am not able to find out how exactly it works and is it correct. For e...

Labeling connections using Oracle Universal Connection Pool (UCP) doesn't seem to work

I'm evaluating the Oracle Universal Connection Pool (UCP) included with their 11.2 JDBC driver, but cannot get the labeling functionality to work properly (which I'd like to use to minimize the amount of ALTER SESSION statements). I'm basically following their sample code to implement the ConnectionLabelingCallback interface. The callba...

How to enable utility control point in SQL Server 'Standard Edition (64-bit)'?

I was trying to register a 64 bit machine under new Utility control point name, get the following "The SQL Server edition must support UCP creation. Validation failed. The specified instance of SQL Server cannot be used as a utility control point because the feature is not enabled in SQL Server 'Standard Edition (64-bit)'. For more info...