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Daily Archives Friday, August 2008

Messed-Up App of the Day

My family has a cat. I don’t like to talk about it, because I really don’t like cats that much.One thing our cat does that’s kind of interesting to me, is that she brings “gifts” into our garage near her food bowl. Here’s a picture of one. She climbs t…

Posted 22 August 2008 † Cary Millsap § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

read uncommitted

the default isolation level is READ COMMITTED. It means, a session read the committed data.
Session 1:

SQL> set transaction isolation level read committed;

Transaction set.

Session 2:

SQL> update emp set sal=4000 where ename='SCOTT';

1 row updated.

Session 1:

SQL> select sal from emp where ename='SCOTT';

       SAL
———-
      3000

Session 2:

SQL> commit;
Commit complete.

Session 1:

SQL> select sal from emp where ename='SCOTT';

       SAL
———-
      4000
SQL> update emp set [...]

Posted 22 August 2008 † Laurent Schneider § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Copy and Paste for the iPhone? Sort of . . .

This feed item on Techmeme got me all excited earlier in the week.
Copy and Paste for iPhone
Digging more deeply, it turns out not to be copy and paste, but rather an open source solution called OpenClip that iPhone app developers can use to accomplish copy and paste.
Because Apple forbids third party apps from running in [...]

Posted 22 August 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Corrupt download caused installation to hang, unzip lessons learned

I’m posting this because apparently it hasn’t happened to anyone else except me (heavens knows I searched for help!). The root cause certainly wasn’t obvious to me, so hopefully, this will help someone (maybe me, once I forget about it).
All I needed to do was install a default Oracle Database 11g R1 environment with a [...]

Posted 22 August 2008 † Dan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

APEX for 55+ people - The first steps

This article is following some previous articles:- The concept (the idea)- The landscape (more info about 55+ person and the environment)So how do you start with a 55+ year old person to explain what APEX is, what it can do and how to use it?We started…

Posted 22 August 2008 † Dimitri Gielis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Oracle OpenWorld 2008 - My Schedule

Even though it only seems like a few months since we were in the Cow Palace listening to Billy Joel, Oracle OpenWorld 2008 is just a few weeks away.
There are lots of Apex sessions going on at OOW this year, it seems to increase every year (in the 3 years I’ve been going to [...]

Posted 22 August 2008 † John Scott § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °