One of the things that sounded kinda neat in SQL Developer 3.1 was the Data Pump Wizards, so I thought I would have a play with them. SQL Developer 3.1 Data Pump Wizards (expdp, impdp) As you would expect, they are pretty straight forward. They can’t do everything you can do with expdp and impdp, [...]
My website was down for the best part of an hour yesterday, between 15:30 and 16:30 UK time. I contacted the hosting provider, but each time they looked at the site it was up, so they close the ticket. The fact that 30 seconds later it was down again does not seem to worry them. [...]
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Posted 07 February 2012
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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Posted 03 February 2012
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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 [...]
The Google Friend Connect badge I’ve been displaying on my website homepage and this blog is no more. Google have canned that widget. Instead it’s been replaced by a Google+ badge. Unfortunately, the G+ badges currently only support Google+ pages, so I can’t connect it to my regular G+ profile, only the ORACLE-BASE.com G+ page. [...]
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Posted 02 February 2012
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So I was just patting myself on the back for finishing my website clean up, then I happened on a few pages with broken links to Oracle documentation. That annoyed me, but I figured I better do a quick scan to see how many broken external links I had. The first attempt was a complete [...]
I wrote last month about some issues with my website as a result of an issue with my hosting provider. It’s been a very long and arduous process, but I think I’ve finally finished the last of the cleanup. It’s certainly not something I would like to repeat again. Having said that, there are lots [...]
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Posted 24 January 2012
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If you loved this, iPhone4 vs HTC EVO And you loved this, Mongo DB Is Web Scale Then you will probably love this, Oracle Cloud Computing Cheers Tim…
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Posted 23 January 2012
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I went to watch the 3D version of Underworld: Awakening yesterday. I’ve made my feeling know about 3D several times and this film changes nothing. The 3D element is an expensive gimmick I can live without. What’s more, the 3D in this film is pretty crappy. It looks like a post-production thing, rather than being [...]