Posts by DvlsAdvc8

First off, I'm not really a DBA... I'm learning as I go. The office I work in has a lot of problems when it comes to the integrity and reliability of data stored in our Oracle database. One of the little things I'm wanting to resolve is the duplication of lookup values across different applications.

Everytime a new feature is added, new lookup tables have typically been created and nothing is reused. Then, later, everyone complains when data in different applications doesn't marry up (well durr... you changed the lookup value for one app, but not another, or you allowed the user to manually enter data introducing mispellings and nonstandard values).

Sometimes, new lookups are created because at the time, no one is aware that a lookup table for X purpose already exists - or where it exists.

So I was thinking of creating a "reference" or "lookup" or "standard" schema for the various standards and lookup tables that we use across multiple applications (we typically have created a new schema for a new application). All of these applications are really a part of one "enterprise system" - only they've been built in a sort of "stovepipe" way such that while it would be tremendously advantageous for them to more easily share data, they don't. I'm tired of reinventing the world every time a project comes along for some new tool.

Is this a good idea or bad?

Ok... I'm going to do some predicting...

You have Logitech Setpoint installed.
You have a Logitech bluetooth mouse or keyboard or both
You have Windows Media Player 10

This was a really tough one to figure out.

Uninstall logitech setpoint and I'll bet $$ media player 10 begins behaving normally. I have talked to Logitech about this, and their lame support just told me "setpoint is not compatible with media player 10." Well, I guess not... unfortunately, I didn't even want to use WMP10 with the damn thing. Who knew they couldn't even co-exist peacefully.

I have the same situation. For me, my system would be normal until starting and then closing media player 10. Then wmplayer.exe would constantly start and stop itself eating up processor and memory... and never ending until I restarted. The player never appears on screen, just in task manager. Of course, you're going to notice that big chunk of your processor you're not getting to use. Would result in alot of slowdown. Logitech won't say if they are planning to fix this or not. Basically, this is the last logitech thing I buy. Their support really turned me off.