Abstract: Techniques for optimizing a software application include receiving, at a local computing system, a query from an application for data stored on a database table, the query including a context defined by a name of the database table; comparing the context of the query to a context of a predefined query scenario; based on the context of the query matching the context of the predefined query scenario, retrieving data stored on a secondary database replicated from data stored on a main database; and passing the retrieved data from the secondary database to the application.

Abstract: Techniques for optimizing a software application include receiving, at a local computing system, a query from an application for data stored on a database table, the query including a context defined by a name of the database table; comparing the context of the query to a context of a predefined query scenario; based on the context of the query matching the context of the predefined query scenario, retrieving data stored on a secondary database replicated from data stored on a main database; and passing the retrieved data from the secondary database to the application.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of installing a set of ceiling panels to a basic ceiling by use of a supporting grid, said set of ceiling panels includes at least three substantially rectangular panels. The method includes establishing and attaching a supporting grid to the basic ceiling, said supporting grid being established by mounting two or more carrier profiles and two or more support profiles to each to provide a grid of at least one rectangle; installing the set of ceiling panels in the carrying grid by applying said ceiling panels in side by side relationship with each other in the rectangle of the grid, so that each panel is supported by support flanges on the supporting profiles, and a first and a second panel are supported by one or more support flanges of one of the carrier profiles constituting the edges of the rectangle. The invention also includes a set of ceiling panels and methods for installing a suspended ceiling.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat exchanger including a plurality of fins, each having a first aperture and a second aperture. A first aperture of a downstream one of the plurality of fins decreases relative to a first aperture of an upstream one of the plurality of fins. A first fluid from the first aperture of the upstream one of the plurality of fins is received partially in the first aperture of the downstream one of the plurality of fins and the remainder of the first fluid is diverted along the downstream one of the plurality of fins and received in the second aperture of the downstream one of the plurality of fins. An inner jacket contacts each of the plurality of fins. An outer jacket surrounds the inner jacket defining a chamber for containing a second fluid therein. The first aperture and the second aperture each define sectors of a circle extending from a central part to an outer periphery for conducting the first fluid toward the inner jacket.