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Repairman Jack: The Tomb…

The Tomb is the first book in the Repairman Jack series by F. Paul Wilson. Jack fixes things. Not washing machines and stuff like that. He fixes situations for people. It’s a job that takes him outside the law and means he has to separate himself from most of the things society think of as [...]

Posted 06 February 2012 † Tim... § ‡ Comments Off °

lose ends…

Finally worked out how to change the admin email ids in the blog!For some reason I never quite fathomed, Google took the wrong email id for admin of this blog when they took over Blogger. With the result that for quite a while I had to login with a di…

Posted 06 February 2012 † Noons § ‡ Comments Off °

E-Business Suite and APEX integration using APIs (1)

I didn’t expect to many technical issues using E-Business Suite (EBS) APIs in APEX as it’s basically a call to PL/SQL packages.Next to that the EBS APIs seems to be well documented. I first didn’t realise, but for a long time I was using the Oracle Int…

Posted 05 February 2012 † Dimitri Gielis § ‡ Comments Off °

Oracle Query Optimizer Vanishing Acts

February 3, 2012 A couple of days ago I noticed an interesting thread in the comp.databases.oracle.server Usenet group that described a problem of vanishing tables.  The title of the thread certainly caught my attention, and I was a bit disappointed …

Posted 04 February 2012 † Charles Hooper § ‡ Comments Off °

All about Security – SQL Injection redux

I just wrote about SQL Injection yesterday – after having giving a web seminar on Wednesday the touched on the topic.One of the comments on that post was by David Litchfield, he wrote:Hey Tom,Funnily enough I just published a paper about doing the same…

Posted 03 February 2012 † Thomas Kyte § ‡ Comments Off °

Hotsos Symposium 2012 Speaker Spotlight – Doug Gault

Doug Gault is returning to Hotsos Symposium 2012. Doug is an entertaining speaker who focuses on Oracle’s Application Express. Doug Gault is a Director & Co-Founder at Sumneva, a world-class Oracle Application Express (APEX) consulting, training & so…

Posted 03 February 2012 † Becky § ‡ Comments Off °

Captain Support: Not to the rescue…

This morning, the display on one of my computers was a bit odd. I rebooted the machine and when it came up I got no output on the monitor. I plugged my laptop into the monitor and that worked fine, so it looked like the graphics card had died. I popped down to a local [...]

Posted 03 February 2012 † Tim... § ‡ Comments Off °

Chronicle…

I thought Chronicle was a cool film. Three kids find some weird object and develop super powers. How will it affect them and how will they choose to use them? It has the “shot on my camcorder” feel, like Cloverfield, and has a kind of Akira feel to me. While I was watching it I [...]

Posted 03 February 2012 † Tim... § ‡ Comments Off °

E-Business Suite and APEX integration using Views

Integrating APEX and EBS by using views is one of the easiest solutions (at first sight!).This is the first scenario, where I have an APEX application and I want to integrate with data sitting in EBS.Pre-requisites:APEX is installed in the same databas…

Posted 03 February 2012 † Dimitri Gielis § ‡ Comments Off °

RMOUG

Just a quick reminder that the Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group Training days are just eleven days away. It’s one of the best Oracle events I’ve attended, and I’ll be there again this year. There are plenty of good speakers and interesting presentations on a wide range of topics – and if you’re wandering around [...]

Posted 03 February 2012 † Jonathan Lewis § ‡ Comments Off °