My good friend Joel showed me how you can connect to a (remote) database using an easy connect identifier. Here’s how it works: sqlplus sergiodb/sergiodb@//127.0.0.1:1521/mvl It looks to be a way of constructing a connect identifier that’s new since database 10g Release 1. The syntax is as follows: [//]host[:port][/service_name] The documentation sums it up nicely: [...]
In my years at Gartner, I worked together with Howard Dresner, who was my mentor, and who I also consider a very good friend. We also worked together at Hyperion. Howard is widely recognized as the ‘father of business intelligence’, the person who put BI on the map. A few weeks ago, I had the [...]
So, we’ll all be making the trip to OpenWorld in a few days. I’m the only one on the team actually flying, but if you’re familiar with Bay Area traffic, you could argue that we’re all traveling (vs. commuting). Photo by our good friend Eddie Awad on Flickr used under Creative Commons Anyway, I’m not [...]
Hi everyoneThe long and eagerly awaited release of Discoverer 11g has just been announced by Oracle and it is available for download right now. This new version of Discoverer is now part of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. Here is a (link) to the software download. Scroll down to the section entitled Portal, Forms, reports and [...]
I’m talking about Raj Mattamal’s session up for votes on mix.oracle.com. Raj is a good friend of mine and used to be on the APEX team until he decided to strike out on his own to use APEX to make money in the real world. He is very knowledge about all subjects APEX and this [...]