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SPL's CC&B to Oracle Utilities

It is almost two years since Oracle bought SPL. Though CC&B has been popular in the West, it had made very little inroads in the EMEA and the

Software Package Free! ... about our Free Software

Software Package Free! ... about our Free Software )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) )))))))))))))>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [link]

Omneon At IBC 2008 - broadcastbuyer.tv (press release)

Omneon At IBC 2008 broadcastbuyer.tv (press release), UK - 22 hours ago

Moving/compressing *.trc files.

Hello all, Is it safe to move/compress (gzip) *.trc files from oracle [b u]dump directories while database instance is up? I'm getting some of these files growing much more than expected (due to a known bug...) and would like to know if i can safely move them automatically to another directory using an script or similar.

My Big IBM Information on Demand 2008 Conference Preview

We are exactly three months away from the IBM IOD 2008 Global Conference at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas and the session titles and abstracts have all been published!

On The Job Promotion - The Daily Work Log

Recently I wrote about tools to help organize and hence enhance creativity.  One of the tools mentioned was Notepad - the simple text editor that comes with Windows. This is also one of the more simple tools you can use to help your career...  How you ask? Simple - a daily work log... I maintain a folder, on my desktop, called Notes.  I keep

xml to table

Hello, I know this code will convert on the fly an XML document to a table: SELECT xml.extract('//EMPNO/text()') as empno, xml.extract('//ENAME/text()') as ename, xml.extract('//JOB/text()') as job, xml.extract('//MGR/text()') as mgr, xml.extract('//HIREDATE/text() ') as hiredate,

how much swap for 10g on a 4Gb RAM system?

Hi I'm just going through installing 10g and wondered about the swap requirements. The documents I'm reading suggest: " Swap space should be twice the amount of RAM for systems with 2GB of RAM or less and between one and two times the amount of RAM for systems with more than 2GB. " Since I've got 4 Gig, do I really need 4Gig of Swap? I'm not pressing this

listener question

Hi when I start my listener I get the following appear on the screen Listening Endpoints Summary... (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCO L=ipc)(KEY=EXTPROC1))) (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCO L=tcp)(HOST=localhost.localdom ain)(PORT=1521))) Services Summary... Service "PLSExtProc" has 1 instance(s). however in my tnsnames.ora file and my listner.ora files I have a different

Question about undo

Hi, We just migrated to Oracle 10g, from 8i. We had one question about UNDO. The documentation states that the UNDO table space keeps the 'undo' information for whatever time you specify and then writes it to disk. Does this mean that the rollback segments are no longer used and can be removed/deleted from the system/init.ora?

Dogear-Nation - Episode 61 - Adding e-mail to Luis' Inbox

Here is a blog post where I reference my first dive into participating as a special guest over at the Dogear-Nation podcasting series with Michael Rowe & Michael Martine, two fellow IBM colleagues and good friends, where we spent a few minutes talking about multiple subjects, including my experiment on giving up on corporate e-mail. Plenty of good fun, overall!

It's Customer Service, Not Rocket Science

Providing great customer service is nothing more than treating others as you wish to be treated.