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@orcldoug what about keywords in uppercase and variables in lower? That's my coding rule. And _ instead of camelCase. about 14 hours ago via web in reply to orcldoug
@phurley @alexgorbachev is that your pool? Respect! about 21 hours ago via web in reply to phurley
Dear software vendors, please do not build your application around the sudoers file, requiring lots of wild cards to work. about 22 hours ago via web
@orcldoug but you will be there? Won't you? And if it is just for drinks and good company... 2:37 PM May 28th via TweetCaster for Android in reply to orcldoug
@myoraclesupport may I ask for fixed-width font in HTML MOS when entering problems or updates to SRs please? 8:31 AM May 28th via Silver Bird
@sgyurov actually-that's a VERY good idea! Haven't thought about it that way round. MIght be possible to do so even in virtual box! 6:47 AM May 28th via web in reply to sgyurov
@pfierens I didn't have time to explore PXE booting yet. Might give that a go actually. Have OL 5.8 and 6.2 ready this way. 2:51 AM May 28th via Silver Bird in reply to pfierens
@pfierens tried it too-using unetbuntin, but didn't work. BIOS doesn't recognize it. 2:44 AM May 28th via web in reply to pfierens
@yvelikanov Thanks Yury, for me it's necessity-my laptop doesn't come with an optical drive ;) Blog post in case I manage 12:40 AM May 28th via Silver Bird in reply to yvelikanov
Does anyone if it's possible to install Oracle VM 3.1.1 using a USB key? I want to run it from hard disk, but prefer not to waste a CD-ROM 12:37 AM May 28th via web
Ugh. One of these late evening where PL/SQL won't come lightly... 2:37 PM May 27th via Silver Bird
@MDWidlake agreed. Do you know how much time went into the RAC book ;) But at least I learned a little bit more about RAC as a side effect 1:49 PM May 27th via Silver Bird in reply to MDWidlake
@MDWidlake I have done it COMPLETELY wrong-2 months slide polishing (on train), ending up having too much material :) /cc @orcldoug 1:46 PM May 27th via Silver Bird in reply to MDWidlake
@martinpaulnash Nice! Keep it up, you know why! 2:31 AM May 27th via web in reply to martinpaulnash
@leight0nn do you install the full set or software only? 2:49 AM May 25th via web in reply to leight0nn
@simon_haslam abstract already submitted :) 1:31 AM May 25th via web in reply to simon_haslam
Performance testing with Virident PCIe SCM wp.me/pDczL-lq 12:57 AM May 25th via WordPress.com
@TanelPoder of course! Tried to be too clever looking at v$sqltext and v$sqltext_with_newlines :) 5:13 AM May 24th via web in reply to TanelPoder
@fritshoogland that's what I'm doing. I'm being caught out by identifiers wrapping lines, introducing spaces which are hard to track 3:56 AM May 24th via web in reply to fritshoogland
OK, I admit defeat. Does anyone know how to extract and pretty-print a SQL statement from the database? DBMS_XPLAN fails, more than 4k text 3:50 AM May 24th via web