It’s funny, right after writing The Day the DB Died, the American Pie parody about a DBA that loses their database and their job due to not having backups…the disk dies on my non-backed-up dedicated server that houses this website. Oracle Alchemist was down for a while, but he wasn’t
Month: November 2006
The Day the DB Died
I have a habit of writing parody songs about things I like, and Oracle is one of those things. I’ve never seen a full on Oracle parody song, so I will make the claim that this is the first. If it’s not, I’m sure it’s the first of this magnitude!
GQLPlus – Command Line Goodness
I just found a link to a command line wrapper for SQL*Plus called GQLPlus. Supposedly this wrapper allows historical editing, table/column name completion, and more. Even better, it’s just a precompiled drop-in with SQL Plus. Download and run; nothing else is required. From the website: “gqlplus is a drop-in replacement
Make History with Streams
Oracle Streams is an outstanding way to get data from one server to another. It is NOTHING like the advanced replication of old, which is why I call it “outstanding” and not “horribly inefficient and error-prone, not to mention annoying.” Recently I was asked how to implement a custom INSERT
Internet Explorer Users Rejoice!
It looks like I got everything looking good on IE6 and 7 again. If you notice any pages that don’t look right, please leave me a note by clicking on the Contact link.
Rise and Do Honor! Oracle Awards
If you get the chance, check out the Oracle Award-Winners from the November/December edition of Oracle Magazine. You can find them at this link: http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/06-nov/o66eca.html I got the chance to meet a few of these fine people while at OpenWorld, and have spoken to others before and afterward as a
My APEX/AJAX Presentation at OpenWorld 2006
Now that Oracle has officially made the OpenWorld 2006 presentations public, I figured I’d make mine available from my site. You can click the link below to download it in PDF format: Putting the Express Back Into Oracle Application Express with AJAX Enjoy! I am also working on getting the