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Daily Archives Friday, July 2008

OWB 10.2.0.4 is out

I noticed on Greg Partenach’s blog that the 10.2.0.4 patchset had been released.
Taking a quick look on Metalink I see that patch 7005587 is out for Linux and Windows - no doubt the other platforms will follow quite soon.
I have not had chance to test the patch yet, but if it does what is [...]

Posted 18 July 2008 † Peter Scott § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Show Blob of other table in APEX Form

A few weeks ago I got a mail with this question:–I read your answer in the forum on a problem regarding : display BLOB in Apex.My question is if it is possible (and HOW) to display an image on a form page based on table A but the image is in table B (…

Posted 18 July 2008 † Dimitri Gielis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

More Server Builds and Presenting…

Server Builds
My room is full of servers again. I’m still rebuilding loads of kit to send to the new site. Yesterday I installed RHEL4 on two servers ready for 10gR2 installations, and RHEL3 on three servers ready for AS10g (9.0.4) installations. The versions, especially App Server, may sound strange, but this is to duplicate the [...]

Posted 18 July 2008 † Tim... § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

More iPwnage

Disclaimer: Honestly, I love my iPhone. It still rules, and I wouldn’t own another smartphone. However, the cynical misanthrope in me loves to deconstruct the hype that surrounds the “God phone”.
On today’s agenda, two items: 1) the “Best phone for business. Ever.” claim and 2) more 3G nonsense.
For Business? Not yet.
Beyond the brazen, marketing claims [...]

Posted 18 July 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Oracle Database 10g 10.2.0.4 Cannot Boot a Large SGA on AMD Servers Running Linux

In the comment thread of my recent blog entry entitled Of Gag-Orders, Excitement, and New Products, a fellow blogger, Jeff Hunter wrote:
I’d be happy if the major innovation was being able to run a 10.2.0.4 16G SGA on x86_64.
He offered a link to a thread on his blog where he has been chronicling his unsuccessful [...]

Posted 18 July 2008 † kevinclosson § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °