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Comment on Querying Oracle directly from XML by maclochlainn

maclochlainn — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:42:42 +0000

It was a struggle to get the benefit of overlay but lose the ability to copy the code. Unfortunately, the code gets ordinary apostrophes converted to specialized characters that make copying fail without editing. I use images and provide the code at the bottom of static pages but not for blog entries. My intent is to add more content here and move it all to a static page. When I do that, I’ll put the source code at the bottom. Hope that works for you? If you have a better alternative, please let me know.

Comment on Querying Oracle directly from XML by Mike Farmer

Mike Farmer — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:23:35 +0000

Nice tip. I’m not a big fan of the way you paste in code. 1) not searchable by Google 2) not copy and pasteable 3) difficult to read. Maybe 1 and 2 are intended, but it would make it easier to implement your ideas if they were just changed to display in a different font.

Comment on How to configure Mac OS X as an Oracle Client by Mike Farmer

Mike Farmer — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:30:45 +0000

This is exactly the configuration I recommend for your CIT 320, 420, 425 students. They all think it’s a pain, but once you’ve got this up and running it is very nice to be able to develop and code in OS X and assume the Oracle server is exactly that, an Oracle server on another machine. This is how they will use it in the work environment so they’d better be used to it in class as well. Very nice post.

Comment on Magic configuration steps for Mac OS X and Oracle Client 10g by » How to configure SQL*Developer on a Mac OS X - Mac Life

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Comment on How to configure Mac OS X as an Oracle Client by Magic configuration steps for Mac OS X and Oracle Client 10g « Maclochlainn’s Weblog

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:31:20 +0000

[...] You can find the steps here … Tagged with: Configuring SQL*Developer on the Mac OS X, ORA-12162, ORA-12514, ORA-12545, SQL*Developer on Mac OS X, SQL*Plus on Mac OS X « Cows don’t fly and LOBs don’t resolve across a DB_LINK [...]

Comment on Magic configuration steps for Mac OS X and Oracle Client 10g by David Weiss

David Weiss — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:30:17 +0000

This looks splendid! Thanks for doing the work of documenting this!

Comment on Changing Windows hostname and Oracle Enterprise Manager by How to configure SQL*Developer on a Mac OS X « Maclochlainn’s Weblog

How to configure SQL*Developer on a Mac OS X « Maclochlainn’s Weblog — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:20:59 +0000

[...] 3. Once you’ve installed the operating system and patched it to the current level, you should name your machine before installing the Oracle Database. If you forget, you can rebuild the Enterprise Manager by following the instructions in this earlier blog page. [...]

Comment on How to convert XML to CSV and upload into Oracle by Querying Oracle directly from XML « Maclochlainn’s Weblog

Querying Oracle directly from XML « Maclochlainn’s Weblog — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:56:25 +0000

[...] Xalan-Java of the example. Xalan-Java is a convenient open source XSLT Processor, covered in an earlier blog. You can refer to that blog page for the download location and general configuration of Xalan-Java. [...]

Comment on The FOR UPDATE and WHERE CURRENT OF statements by Mike Farmer

Mike Farmer — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:35:09 +0000

The correlated UPDATE and DELETE is by far a more elegant solution so long as there aren’t any performance issues. The more code I write the more I appreciate elegance over obscurity and terseness. Nice post!

Comment on The FOR UPDATE and WHERE CURRENT OF statements by maclochlainn

maclochlainn — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:10:34 +0000

That’s great to hear it does work. I went back and checked that documentation, and I’d read it wrong. It says, “Oracle does not currently support positioned UPDATE or positioned DELETE by way of a WHERE CURRENT OF clause, as specified by the SQLJ specification. Instead, Oracle recommends the use of ROWIDs to simulate this functionality.”