Oracle related rants (and lots of off-topic stuff)…
MySQL close to SAP certification
Who gets paid for the mySQL licensing costs associated with the InnoDB and Berkeley DB?
Looks like Larry will be buying another fake Japanese village soon 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
PS. Does this mean that Tom is going to start fielding mySQL questions on AskTom.oracle.com? 🙂
Nothing revolutionary here. I just realized I didn’t have an article about them so I thought I’d write one:
I can already hear Tom Kyte groaning. He’s not the worlds biggest fan of autonomous transactions. 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
It was a long and arduous road, but I finally got the January CPU into production this weekend. The Tru64 version was released over 1 month behind most platforms. Still no sign of the 10.1.0.4.0 patch or 10g Release 2…
Cheers
Tim…
I was messing around with the UTL_DBWS package when Oracle 10g was first released and I must admit, I completely missed the point. The other day I came across my draft article and with some fresh eyes noticed what I was doing wrong. So here it is:
UTL_DBWS – Consuming Web Services in Oracle 10g
Cheers
Tim…
I wrote/revamped an article yesterday called Auditing in Oracle 10g Database Release 2. Most of the information was already present on the site, but it was spread across several articles including an 8i article and several new features articles for 9i and 10g. Rather than write a small article on the XML audit trail in Oracle 10g Release 2, I thought I would bring the whole lot up to date.
One point I spotted was an unusual change in the AUDIT_TRAIL parameter. In 10g Release 1 there was an allowed value of DB_EXTENDED, which indicates that the audit records should go to the DB audit trail and the SQL_TEXT and SQL_BIND columns should be populated. In Release 2 this has been changed to DB,EXTENDED. Can’t see the point in this change myself. Personally, I would not have been offended by XML_EXTENDED, rather than XML,EXTENDED… 🙂
Whatever…
Cheers
Tim…
It has finally been released and is currently applied to our development an test environments. Fingers crossed, we’ll get it applied to production before the next one is released 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
Person: Is there a problem this morning?
DBA: A problem with what?
Person: Application “X” is throwing out errors. Do you know what’s going on?
DBA: That’s wierd, as far as I know nothing has changed on that project recently.
Person: They put some new software live yesterday, but they are sure that’s not the problem!
DBA: Which server are they seeing the problem on?
Person: Server “Y”.
DBA: The applications on that server don’t connect directly to the database. It doesn’t even have an Oracle client loaded.
So let me see:
I’m sure there is logic somewhere there, but I’m just too stupid to see it 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
Somebody asked me how to install Oracle9i on Red Hat 4.0, so I wrote quick how-to. Personally, I can’t see the point. Why run an old version of Oracle that requires you to make RHEL 4 think it’s RedHat 9? Each to their own I guess.
A number of bloggers have mentioned the new Oracle blogs site, so I thought I’d check it out. I was more than a little surprised when I found my blog listed there. I’m a very “off-topic” blogger and my opinion of Oracle is not always flattering. I guess I slipped through the quality control net…
Now, who do I need to bribe in order to get one of those little ACE images? 😉
Cheers
Tim…
I’ve modified my “Linux Articles” page to show a matrix of all my installation articles. It makes finding stuff a little easier than reading the text long-hand. For the most part, these are installations I’ve practiced for work, or needed for home, so I doubt I’ll try too hard to fill in the gaps.
There are a couple of draft articles for Fedora Core 5 (FC5). It’s still in beta, so these will need some amendments by the time the final version is released.
Fun, fun, fun 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
The 10.1.0.5.0 patch is now available for:
Why 64-bit Windows and not 32-bit Windows? I would have thought the latter would be the priority as the uptake of 64-bit Windows has been poor so far. Perhaps it’s just a fluke 🙂
Cheers
Tim…