Here are my impressions of two Oracle certification exams I’ve had the opportunity to take in the past few months: 1Z0-040 (Oracle Database 10g: New Features for Administrators), and the beta version of 1Z0-238 (Oracle EBS R12: Install, Patch and Maintain Applications)
Being a Mac user and an Oracle DBA need not be an “oil and water” situation. This post describes a way to leverage virtualization (in this case, VMware Fusion) to access tools that are not currently available on OS X. My example is how to launch oidadmin on Mac OS X, but it can easily be adapted to other favorite applications.
I was playing around with using Oracle Internet Directory to resolve database service names recently, and it turned into an adventure. Not exactly a memoir-inspiring adventure, but at least one worth blogging about. Maybe my little voyage of discovery here will help someone else who gets a TNS-03505 when using LDAP to look [...]
I risk being accused of egregious sycophancy with a post title like that, but I’ll stand by it, because I am genuinely grateful: if you went to Oracle Openworld 2008 and blogged, liveblogged, youtubed, podcast (podcasted?), or tweeted about your experiences at the event, thank you. You made my professional life so much [...]
