This post was promised long ago, and I apologize for the tardiness. Some of you may recall my whining about seemingly unexplainable instance hanging since migrating our database to 64-bit hardware in September. Well, after some back and forth and hand-offs from one rep to another, we finally were given...
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Don: 1 vs. 1Z0-043: 0
Passed the 1Z0-043 exam today, otherwise known as the OCP exam. Just need some other jazz like my hands-on course requirement form to be processed and then I should get my badge and gun and key to the executive washroom.Thanks to Bradd Piontek for reminding me of how silly it...
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Some Comic Humor For You
From Married To The Sea, one of my favorite web comics.
ALTER TABLE doesn't like synonyms
Something new I found out today. When performing an ALTER TABLE statement (in this case to add a column) in another schema for which you have a synonym (public or private), you must refer to it with the schema qualifier, e.g. HR.EMPLOYEES rather than just EMPLOYEES. It seems the DDL...
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netca and /etc/hosts
When I first re-installed my laptop with Fedora 8, I naturally set about installing Oracle 10g. However at the end of the dbca process, the launching of netca failed. Trying to run netca manually yielded this fun error:[oracle ~]$ netcaOracle Net Services Configuration:## An unexpected error has been detected by...
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