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Via Twitter, an interesting regexp_replace puzzle

3 April 2009 – 11:11

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.

By jpiwowar | Posted in Oracle misc | Comments (2)

Clearing the Oracle environment in a Unix session

24 November 2008 – 13:16

Correctly defining Oracle-related environment variables in a Linux or Unix session is pretty important, especially on a system that hosts multiple ORACLE_HOMEs. Equally important is making sure that old settings are removed from the environment when switching contexts from one ORACLE_HOME to another. Here’s an example of how I do it.

By jpiwowar | Posted in Linux, Oracle misc | Also tagged | Comments (5)