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Re: dataSetChart image in emails
Do you know how to ensure chart images are displayed in emails correctly? Is there a way to have them embedded (attached, but displayed in the...
Writing a FireMonkey DLL for use with a VCL application.
We have had a lot of questions on the road show tour about how to mix Fire Monkey and VCL. Although this is not officially supported, a number of...
LiveBindings: Fill a TListBox from a TClientDataSet at design time
TBindList can iterate through the records in a TClientDataSet and fill a TListBox. Here is how to configure TBindList in the designer. Drop a...
Understanding SQL Server Statistics
Donabel Santos (twitter (@sqlbelle) | blog) – April 25, 2011 “Statistics provides tools that you need in order to react intelligently to...
Why is the MySQL Table Data Editor and DDL Scripting slow?
I execute a query in MySQL and it returns in 200ms. I "Execute Edit" the same query and it takes 4 minutes. I try to Script...
What are Hardware Requirements for Monyog?
We are often asked by users deploying MONyog what hardware system they should plan for it. Typically they have been evaluating and testing with a...
Active Directory In Up.time 5.5.0
I am trying to get AD authentication working in up.time 5.5.0 as I have several engineers in different locations that want to evaluate it. But so...
How to start a programming career with Delphi XE and C++Builder XE Starter Editions
Over the years, one of the recurring conversations has been around how to get started in computer programming, what language to learn first and how...
Customization of monitors & advisors become more easy with the latest MONyog 4.1
The highlights of this release are: * A brand new helper function interface: We have implemented an easy-form based interface for customizing helper...
Move Groups Of Tables
I've just started to use the Schema Designer feature, and whilst handy it is driving me mad as I can't see any way of moving a group of...
Take your indexed columns out of functions to really boost SQL Server performance!
In a future article I will show how to quantify and rank your “heaviest” SQL Server queries according to the overall load they place on...
Performance of COALESCE vs. IS NULL
There are a great many articles out there expounding the virtues of using the ANSI standard COALESCE function over the...
Monitoring Disk Space Of Nas Devices
I have 3 different NAS devices (Netgear, Lacie, IOmega) that I would like to monitor through uptime to see if their disk space is being used or...
Using Windows Stock Icons in Delphi
it is not a big discovery that all applications are running in the environment provided by the underlying operating system. Delphi is well-known for...
Converting to grayscale with TBitmap.ScanLine property
In my previous post "Boian’s TBitmap Visualizer and converting to grayscale" I have described an algorithm for converting arbitrary TBitmap...
Archive Alternative Methods
We have been looking at how Uptime stores its data and how me can make better use of Uptime.With the exception of the disk performance_fscap table...
“MySQL server has gone away” Part 2: session timeout.
This is the second and last article of a small series on reasons for the error message: “MySQL server has gone away”. The first appeared here...
"MySQL server has gone away" Part 1: max_allowed_packet.
Most MySQL users have tried getting this rather cryptic error message: "MySQL server has gone away". The MySQL documentation describes...
DataSnap Server Method Stream Parameters
This is a continuation of my posts on DataSnap server method parameters and return types. This post is about TStream and TDBXStreamValue. The...
Ldap Monitor
hello, I downloaded friday 20 mars “up-time5″ for test. when i try to use 'test ldap service instance', I have always error=53....
Monthly Capacity Reporting
Monthly Capacity Reporting I need to provide server by server (Wintel) some preety management pictures that show CPU both peaks and average with a...
DataSnap Server Methods Parameters
Delphi 2009 introduced support for DataSnap server methods. If you are not familiar with this feature, here are two articles that describe server...
Building and consuming web services with Delphi 2009
Do you remember that Delphi 6 was the first IDE in the market with Web Services support? This trend continues and Delphi 2009 supports building web...
Custom Plugin Arguments
Hi, I've just installed version 5 uptime and have created a custom plugin to monitor the replication status of my mysql slave servers. I created...
Monitor Failed
Good evening, I have found an error in my uptime monitor (actually got an alert a bit ago) and the message that I see is as follows: Monitor failed:...
Export And Import Uptime Settings
Is it possible to export and import Uptime settings to an external format? I have a primary/secondary server. What i want to do is configuration...
Db2 Tablespace Monitor
This monitor allows you to monitor all of the tablespaces for your DB2 instance. The monitor collects the stats for all of the tablespaces defined...
Db2 Buffer Pool Monitor
This monitor allows you to monitor all of the buffer pools for your DB2 instance. The monitor collects the stats for all of the buffer pools defined...
Basic Tomcat Monitor
Here is a monitor for the Tomcat users out there. This monitor is not based on JMX, and therefore requires that the manager/status servlet is...
Basic Db2 Monitoring
This plugin monitor allows you to monitor a DB2 database. This has been tested with version 9, but should work with older versions as well. 1)...