Looking ahead to OpenWorld 2010, and coming to terms with the fact that no matter what I do, I’m going to miss out on some interesting content. And sleep. Going to miss out on LOTS of sleep.
A handful of interesting links, while I wait for my mental content logjam to break.
One of my most frequently-visited blog posts is Retrieving Oracle patches with wget. Recently, a commenter asked about using wget to download software from Oracle Technet (OTN). It’s a little more complicated to use wget to download from OTN, because there are cookies involved. This post discusses how to extract the relevant cookies from Firefox and Google Chrome, and use those cookies with wget to retrieve files.
Vancouver Oracle Users Group March 9 2010 meeting announcement
Well, here’s your chance.
As a recent arrival to Vancouver, BC from Pittsburgh, PA, I’d started hunting around for a Vancouver-based Oracle Users Group. I was surprised to discover that the closest group was actually based in Victoria, BC, which I’ve now learned is a scenic but not particularly convenient commute. [...]
Prolific and knowledgeable Oracle Ace LewisC asked a regular expression (more specifically, regexp_replace) question on Twitter, and I found myself thinking, “hey, I bet I could actually answer that!” So I did. Then I thought about my answer a bit more, and decided to write a blog post to expand upon my original 140-character response.
While working from home this evening, I had to download some patches to a remote Linux system, and was struck, not for the the first time, by the inconvenience of it all. So I wrote a quick shell function that helps me grab patches using wget. And then, I decided to share with the world, or at least the really small portion of the world that visits my blog.
When installing Grid Control on a Linux or Unix platform, a recommended practice is to install the monitoring agent software as a user that doesn’t own the ORACLE_HOMEs to be monitored. This poses a challenge when configuring monitoring for some targets, particularly those based on Oracle Application Server 10g. This post lists some changes you can make to work around a variety of target discovery and metric collection errors.
