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Daily Archives Thursday, April 2008

RMAN-08137 Followup

Before I got a chance to apply my 10.2.0.4 patch, my problem fixed itself! Well, maybe not fixed itself, but certainly went away.As I was reviewing my backup log from last night, I noticed that my RMAN-08137 error was gone. I didn’t do anything differe…

Posted 10 April 2008 † Jeff Hunter § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Yahoo-Microsoft Endgame?

I blogged about the Yahoo-Microsoft soap opera when it first began. I expected it to end pretty quickly, with Yahoo realizing they couldn’t go it alone anymore.
Since then, rumors have swirled and now the plot is as thick as mud. News Corp has gone from savior to Microsoft conspirator, and Google is still lurking, messing [...]

Posted 10 April 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

APEX Sessions at Collaborate


Posted 10 April 2008 † Dimitri Gielis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

oradebug tracefile_name

I have enabled tracing in a session and now I want to retrieve the name of the tracefile.
Ex: my session has sid 335.
How do I retrieve trace file name from sqlplus ?

select pid from v$process where addr in
(select paddr from v$session where sid=335);

PID
———-
[...]

Posted 10 April 2008 † Laurent Schneider § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

IOUG - Are you going?

Sorry for not posting more. I’ve really been head’s down in some coding efforts. Having a blast too. I haven’t done coding like this in a while.

Anyway, I will be at IOUG next week and was wondering who else will be there. EnterpriseDB will have a booth and I will be manning it off and on. We’re giving away signed copies of my book. I’m not sure how many they will bring but make sure to stop by and get one.

I haven’t even looked at the sessions yet. I have no idea which I’ll be atte

Posted 10 April 2008 † An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Lords and Ladies and Men at Arms…

My quest to read the Discworld series continues:
Lords and Ladies - This book starts where Witches Abroad finished. This time the witches have to prevent elves returning to the Discworld. Love, marriage, death and elves. What more could you want.
Men at Arms - I keep reading these books and saying, “This one is [...]

Posted 10 April 2008 † Tim... § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

OBI SE One Seminar, Birmingham 30th April 2008

Rittman Mead Consulting, in conjunction with Oracle, are running a half-day Oracle BI Suite Standard Edition One seminar at Oracle Birmingham on Wednesday, 30th April 2008. Free to attend, this event is aimed at organizations new to BI and will provide an overview of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite with a focus on Standard Edition One, [...]

Posted 10 April 2008 † Mark Rittman § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °