The company went belly up about 4 years ago, and the product was an English product (although it was sold in the US, which i think makes it valid for patents). I have the source code and a copy of the executable for the product but I am unable to run it, need a DLL for a 3rd party add-in (IMW3232D40.DLL). I have tinkered around with rewriting in VS2008, and removing the library, but there are a lot of compile time errors, and it uses the Jet DB engine so all the DB code needs to be redone. This is why I don't want to give the product name, eventually I would like to resurrect it as an open source portfolio manager, but I am not sure who holds the copyright (I wrote at least 90% of the code, but I was employed to do this, so I know I don't)
I know we had a large manual that described this and all the other functionality in the app, but unfortunately, i don't have a copy. Shame really, would be fun to see what happened
This line is from a header file for a charting object we wrote in a windows desktop app written in MFC// Inception - 2.13.96
It does exactly what is described in the patent, chart with shields on it that you could click to link to corporate events and news stories, a smaller version of the chart with sliders to allow you to set the date range, and so on. Of course, the product is no longer sold, so that properly means you can reinvent the wheel where software is concerned
Sorry, we still use the stupid DBMS_LOGMINER packages to do it, then we get the SQL_REDO and just apply it to the MySQL server.
We just keep a running record of the last CSCN processed, and you have to make sure supplemental logging is on, as well as setting primary keys to appear in the logs as well.
Primarily cost, as load on the web site ramped up, we simply added more servers, no oracle licensing cost. Plus our dbadmins seem to have a hard time keeping the oracle boxes up for more than a week at a time, whereas the mysql boxes have been running for 90 days without a glitch, and our sysadmins love the fact that they do not have to do anything with them
We replicate from Oracle to MySQL using redo-logs and a 143 line perl script. This has worked for about the last year, although there is a 15 minute delay in Oracle 9i, as there is no easy way to query online redo logs. All that changes when our data warehouse goes up to 10g, at that point we will get real time replication.
The MySQL database is only 250gig, around 2.2 billion records, used for all our websites (read-only), while all update systems hit Oracle, the updates are fed to a single MySQL master, which then uses MySQL replication to replicate to the web farm. No need to validate data on the MySQL servers, as the Oracle box has already done that.
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The company went belly up about 4 years ago, and the product was an English product (although it was sold in the US, which i think makes it valid for patents). I have the source code and a copy of the executable for the product but I am unable to run it, need a DLL for a 3rd party add-in (IMW3232D40.DLL). I have tinkered around with rewriting in VS2008, and removing the library, but there are a lot of compile time errors, and it uses the Jet DB engine so all the DB code needs to be redone. This is why I don't want to give the product name, eventually I would like to resurrect it as an open source portfolio manager, but I am not sure who holds the copyright (I wrote at least 90% of the code, but I was employed to do this, so I know I don't)
I know we had a large manual that described this and all the other functionality in the app, but unfortunately, i don't have a copy. Shame really, would be fun to see what happened
This line is from a header file for a charting object we wrote in a windows desktop app written in MFC // Inception - 2.13.96
It does exactly what is described in the patent, chart with shields on it that you could click to link to corporate events and news stories, a smaller version of the chart with sliders to allow you to set the date range, and so on. Of course, the product is no longer sold, so that properly means you can reinvent the wheel where software is concerned
Stupid patents
Sorry, we still use the stupid DBMS_LOGMINER packages to do it, then we get the SQL_REDO and just apply it to the MySQL server.
We just keep a running record of the last CSCN processed, and you have to make sure supplemental logging is on, as well as setting primary keys to appear in the logs as well.
Primarily cost, as load on the web site ramped up, we simply added more servers, no oracle licensing cost. Plus our dbadmins seem to have a hard time keeping the oracle boxes up for more than a week at a time, whereas the mysql boxes have been running for 90 days without a glitch, and our sysadmins love the fact that they do not have to do anything with them
We replicate from Oracle to MySQL using redo-logs and a 143 line perl script. This has worked for about the last year, although there is a 15 minute delay in Oracle 9i, as there is no easy way to query online redo logs. All that changes when our data warehouse goes up to 10g, at that point we will get real time replication.
The MySQL database is only 250gig, around 2.2 billion records, used for all our websites (read-only), while all update systems hit Oracle, the updates are fed to a single MySQL master, which then uses MySQL replication to replicate to the web farm. No need to validate data on the MySQL servers, as the Oracle box has already done that.