Trying Out jMonkeyEngine SDK 3.0RC1

I’ve never used jMonkeyEngine SDK before, and I’ve always been meaning to start. Now that jMonkeyEngine SDK 3.0RC1 has come out based on top of the 7.2 Beta release of NetBeans IDE, I was curious to see how to get started with it all. Watch the movie t…

Trying Out jMonkeyEngine SDK 3.0RC1

I’ve never used jMonkeyEngine SDK before, and I’ve always been meaning to start. Now that jMonkeyEngine SDK 3.0RC1 has come out based on top of the 7.2 Beta release of NetBeans IDE, I was curious to see how to get started with it all. Watch the movie t…

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UKOUG – Call for Papers

The UK Oracle User Group has put out it’s call for papers, and the deadline is rapidly approaching.
Have you registered as a speaker and sent in a abstract yet? NO? Don’t you know how great an opportunity it is for you. Discuss your ideas with you…

Index Range Scan and db file scattered read as session wait event

I was asked to check a session which was running for more than expected time on 11.2.0.3 single instance database.The session was running a simple select statement 05:03:09 SYS@xx4040 > @sqlid 9kpjtkdz1mzus old 9: sql_id = ('&1') new 9: …

Google-like Search and LOVs using Oracle Text and ViewCriteria

Do you know the Google Advanced Search page? Very few people have ever seen the page, let alone used it. Now, why is that? It is simply because the “normal” single-field quick-search (that what we normally just call Google) is so incredibly effective.O…

sed and strong quotes ‘

If you want to substitute strings via sed, it is very easy:# echo ‘hello world!’ |sed ‘s/hello/it is a cool/’it is a cool world!But what if you want to use a strong quote inside the substitution?# echo ‘hello world!’ |sed ‘s/hello/it’s a cool/’gets int…

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

For those not familiar with Richard Foote’s extensive blog about indexes (and if you’re not you should be) – the title of this note is a blatant hi-jacking of his preferred naming mechanism.
It’s just a short note to remind myself (and my reade…

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