Oracle DB check contraints based on regular expression
It's good to know that for "check constraint" you can use any arbitrary regular expression http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e17118/conditions007.htm#SQLRF52150 . Example: create table...
View Articledefault: VirtualBox VM is already running.
I have cloned an existing Vagrantfile, changed the properties "config.vm.box" and "config.vm.host_name", and done a "vagrant up" hoping to have a brand new VM available. After all this is what Vagrant...
View ArticleGit detached HEAD
Normally I do all my git operations from command line. It might be more effort than using Eclipse/Geppetto plugin, but at least I know exactly what I am doing. Recently I have made the terrible mistake...
View ArticleGit feature branch
More and more we are using "feature branch" rather than committing directly to master. http://martinfowler.com/bliki/FeatureBranch.htmlFirst, let's verify on which branch we are: git checkoutYour...
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Git, configuring SSH on Windows
a great feature of git ssh is that, when it fails, you are left with very vague error messages that can point to 1000s of different causes. It could hardly stink more. Really only for the expert. git...
View ArticleSolidarity with the children of Gaza
In case you want to help stitch together the children that the Israeli "Defense" Force have so surgically torn apart, you can send money to:Account details:Account Name:Â Bethlehem Arab Society for...
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More books: When Nietzsche wept, This time we went too far
When Nietzsche Wept very enjoyable novel by Irvin Yalom, about the life and work of 3 extraordinary Austrian and German intellectuals: Friedrich Nietzsche, Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud."This time we...
View ArticleVideo Tutorial on Oracle Service Bus 12 development in JDeveloper
it's soooo much easier than in the old Eclipse IDE.... here everything is integrated (IDE, running embedded WebLogic server, Test Console, logs) and you can create a WSDL using an inline wizard.... it...
View ArticleVideos on how to upgrade to SoaSuite 12c
Oracle official documentation on how to install or upgradeReally excellent presentation covering all the steps to upgrade your domains to 12c, including DB migration:
View ArticleOSB and SLA alerts in Eclipse
When you define a SLA alert in the OSB Console (sbconsole) this xml is added you your .proxy file : <ser:alertRules><ser:alertRule name="slow"...
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WebLogic: disabling JMS message consumption at startup
One can TEMPORARILY disable consumption from a JMS Destination (JMSServer / Active Destinations/Monitor) , but when you restart, the queue is enabled again. This in production can be fatal. One can...
View Articlesqlplus vs sqldeveloper
When I run a DDL script in SQLDeveloper, it just runs perfect. Same script in SQL throws plenty of errors like: ORA-00955: name is already used by an existing object Incidentally, SQLPlus runs me...
View ArticlePython: run multiple processes in parallel and wait for completion
This code is quite minimalistic but it works really well. It employs a very old API which is compatible with Pythong 2.1 (WLST very old version of Python....) from sets import Setprocesses = Set()for...
View ArticleWebLogic: WLST timeout connecting on a secure port
Connecting to a WebLogic server on a SSL port, although highly recommended by Oracle, can have a major drawback: it's damn slow to establish connection. AFAIK there is no way to speed this up. I have...
View ArticleWebLogic: moving JMS filestores around
If a domain dies, and the filestores contain precious JMS messages still to be processed, how do you handle this? There is a "filestore export" utility, but sadly it doesn't have an equivalent "import"...
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Books: The Politics of Heroin, The History of the First World War
Just finished reading these 2 MASSIVE history books, the first tells a lot of really interesting stories on how geopolitical interests control the production and traffic of heroin in the world. Most of...
View ArticleWebLogic : awesome presentation on what is new in 12.1.3
http://download.oracle.com/tutorials/ecourse/fmw/wls/wls_12.1.3_new_features/presentation.htmlI VERY HIGHLY recommend to go through this 2 hours presentation on the new features of WebLogic 12.1.3. you...
View ArticleWebLogic: Installing WebLogic 10.3.5 binaries and creating a domain in 2 minutes
Sometimes one need to create a throwaway domain in minutes....I hate having to remember all the small details.... how to create a weblogic domain login to myhostsudo su - soacd /opt/oracle/softwaremake...
View ArticlePuppet: minimalistic custom fact
in your module, create a lib/facter folder.There, create a customxpathversion.rb file containing this code:require 'puppet'Facter.add("customxpathversion") do setcode 'cat...
View ArticlePuppet: quick hiera setup
cat /home/soa/.puppet/hiera.yaml :hierarchy: - common:backends: - yaml:yaml: :datadir: '/home/soa' cat /home/soa/common.yaml install_cleanssbatchorder : trueTo test if hiera is working: puppet apply -e...
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