Category Archives: Oracle

Form vs Function in Applications

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Gaius

When you have been around the industry for a little while, you will see that nearly all applications, especially user-facing ones, are made of only three kinds of things: Forms, Reports and Workflows. A Form is simply an interface, a … Continue reading →

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2014

Posted on December 28, 2014 by Gaius

So, how was 2014 for me, in tech at least? Pretty good. It has been quite an interesting experience adapting to an all-proprietary tech stack (database, language, IDE, job scheduler) but I feel I am finally getting a grip on … Continue reading →

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2013

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Gaius

Long time since I have updated here, a lot has been happening. For a start part 4 of my series on Oracle 12c new features is unlikely to be written since in October I started a new job which is … Continue reading →

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Strange Datetime Problem

Posted on August 17, 2013 by Gaius

While working on my unit tests, I came across a sporadic failure in inserting and selecting Datetimes to the database, so I wrote a quick test harness to see what’s going on: This fails about 3% of the time, for … Continue reading →

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OCI*ML: Make Test

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Gaius

Before resuming feature implementation in OCI*ML I thought I ought to tighten up the test suite a bit, so I have started on a make test target, including some utilities for generating large test datasets, which should be useful elsewhere. … Continue reading →

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Oracle 12c Launch Event (3)

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Gaius

This is the third segment of my series of posts on interesting new features in Oracle 12c. In this I will cover enhancements to RAC, DataGuard (DG) and RMAN. Application Continuity (AC) is the next logical step in Oracle’s existing … Continue reading →

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Oracle 12c Launch Event (2)

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Gaius

Continuing from the previous post, here are some more of the new features of Oracle 12c that I am excited about. The first is transparent redaction. Like the privilege analysis feature, this is something that you could implement using 11g … Continue reading →

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Oracle 12c Launch Event (1)

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Gaius

Back in July, I attended the Oracle Database 12c Launch event in London, and this is my rather belated writeup of some of the new features, some of which were introduced to me on the day, and others I had … Continue reading →

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August

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Gaius

As of today I am on gardening leave, and I intend to spend the time productively (after taking a long-planned and well-deserved holiday next week!). In no particular order: Update this blog more regularly, I have some posts that I … Continue reading →

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HOWTO: Install Oracle 12c on Debian Wheezy

Posted on June 27, 2013 by Gaius

I can confirm that the previous post basically works too for the installation of Oracle 12c on 64-bit Debian 7.1/Wheezy, with the following modifications. Using lib64 for the library symlinks: And the following changes to $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib/env_rdbms.mk The bug requiring the … Continue reading →

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