Daily Archives Tuesday, August 2008

Looking for Oracle BI Applications Training For Your Team?

A new course we’ve recently developed is one around the Oracle BI Applications 7.9.5. Covering the initial setup, data load and mapping customizations and using an Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10 data set, we initially developed this course for a couple of customers who wanted to get their development team up to speed with the key [...]

Script: Display valid values for multioption parameters (including hidden parameters)

I wrote a little script pvalid.sql for listing valid values for multioption parameters (the ones which are not string, number or boolean type, but accept a parameter from predetermined list, like optimizer_mode which can have values of ALL_ROWS, FIRST_ROWS, CHOOSE, FIRST_ROWS_1, etc).
The script accepts a (part of) Oracle parameter name as first argument, for example [...]

mod_rewrite and APEX

I’m working on a publication and one concept I’d like to include is the use of mod_rewrite and APEX as it helps simplify another concept.  Here’s the problem, while I’ve used mod_rewrite in many production environments, I’ve never used the exact concept I want to write about.  Essentially, I want to force all requests for [...]

Article on HOW TO Handle Block Corruption in Oracle 11g published

Today I have reveived a parcel from IOUG containing five copies of the current SELECT magazine.

Plus a sweater with the SELECT Journal Contributer logo:

Additionally I was granted a one year free membership for Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG) for my article on DETECTING AND REPAIRING CORRUPT BLOCKS IN ORACLE DATABASE 11g WITH THE DATA RECOVERY ADVISER [...]

APEX news: APEX 3.2, Forms migration, new blogs, OOW, Metalink

During the holidays the number of blog posts I write is significantly less. If you follow the other blogs or watch on apexblogs.info you’ve seen most of the latest news.Nevertheless I thought it was a good idea to do a combined post of the APEX news of…