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Daily Archives Saturday, April 2008

Not at Collaborate, Stuck in the UK

Today I should have been jetting off with British Airways to Denver for Collaborate’08, however last night I noticed that I couldn’t check in online, and when I checked the flight status the flight had been cancelled. By the time I found out it was too late to call the ticket office, so I set [...]

Posted 12 April 2008 † Mark Rittman § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Collaborate 08, RAC SIG & other sessions of interest

Collaborate 08 is here and I’m in Denver already to prepare for the start of the conference. This year, I won’t be blogging a day-by-day accounting of my whereabouts and happenings. Instead, I’ll save up for a summary of what I saw, heard, and vibes I felt during the week.
If you’re still one of the [...]

Posted 12 April 2008 † Dan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

alert log in xml format

The alert log is in xml format in Oracle 11g. If you want to parse the content of the file and use the XML functions to retrieve the data, you can use this way :
SQL> create or replace directory alert as
2 ‘C:\app\oracle\diag\rdbms\lsc01\lsc01\alert’;

Directory created.

SQL> var c clob
SQL> declare
2 [...]

Posted 12 April 2008 † Laurent Schneider § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Post APEX 3.1 - Enhancement requests


Posted 12 April 2008 † Dimitri Gielis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Arrived in Denver


Posted 12 April 2008 † Dimitri Gielis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °