Tuesday, December 21, 2004
The wonderful world of the Internet enables quick dissemination of technical information; unfortunately it also enables rapid distribution of incorrect information. So it was with a post to the Oracle-L mailing list. An interesting follow-up which Pete Finnigan mentioned was the hidden parameter "_disable_ntlog_events" which disables the writing of events to the nt event logs. Pete also mentioned my post which describes this as a bug fixed in 10.1.0.3. Well I was wrong. It is a bug. It isn't listed as fixed in 10.1.0.3 either in the bug report or in the port specific fix list for Windows. It is listed as fixed in 10.2. For those with metalink accounts and interest the bug description is at Bug 3615505
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Friday, December 10, 2004
Pete Finnigan kindly pointed out that my release date of January 2005 for 10g Release 2 was just wrong. The press release that I linked to states nothing firmer than mid-2005.
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Thursday, December 09, 2004
So Openworld is in full swing, and those of us following from afar can keep up with the various official and unofficial reports online.
Yesterday's big announcement was the release of 10g Release 2 in January. The abridged feature list can be found here. It looks as if 10g release 2 will have some particularly interesting features for Windows based Oracle shops. One of these is the apparent fact that Oracle rather than Microsoft will be the first to ship an RDBMS with the ability to code Stored Procedures in CLR languages. The other morsel of temptation can be found here with a viewlet demo of the much promised integration with Visual Studio .Net.
Taken together with the release history of 10g (it will likely have been available for nearly 18 months by the time Microsoft SQL Server 2005 ships), these announcements make highly interesting reading for those of us who had been wondering about Oracle's commitment to the Microsoft platform.
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Yesterday's big announcement was the release of 10g Release 2 in January. The abridged feature list can be found here. It looks as if 10g release 2 will have some particularly interesting features for Windows based Oracle shops. One of these is the apparent fact that Oracle rather than Microsoft will be the first to ship an RDBMS with the ability to code Stored Procedures in CLR languages. The other morsel of temptation can be found here with a viewlet demo of the much promised integration with Visual Studio .Net.
Taken together with the release history of 10g (it will likely have been available for nearly 18 months by the time Microsoft SQL Server 2005 ships), these announcements make highly interesting reading for those of us who had been wondering about Oracle's commitment to the Microsoft platform.
Sunday, December 05, 2004
A word on comments. The ability to comment has been removed for the time being. I wished to avoid this, but Amjad Daoud of the University of Petra repeatedly abused the anonymous posting setup to advertise his rather poor product. I expect to provide this functionality again shortly, but in such a manner that will allow me to remove unwanted and inappropriate material from the site.
Part of the process of scientific dialog, and progress is the ability to publicly discuss and critique comments and ideas. This is a fundamental basis for progress. I have to say I find it sad that a member of an academic institution would abuse this process for personal financial gain. I will never censor criticism and discussion of Oracle, RDBMS systems or related ideas. Product advertising however will get short shrift.
Part of the process of scientific dialog, and progress is the ability to publicly discuss and critique comments and ideas. This is a fundamental basis for progress. I have to say I find it sad that a member of an academic institution would abuse this process for personal financial gain. I will never censor criticism and discussion of Oracle, RDBMS systems or related ideas. Product advertising however will get short shrift.
Thursday, December 02, 2004
Joe Celko has a now complete series of articles available at dbazine. These concern that old chestnut of where to put your business rules and data validation. My somewhat cynical view on this hasn't changed much since this discussion back in 2002. Joe makes the pros and cons of both common approaches clear in his usual style in the series as a whole, but especially this concluding article.
The only thing that I see missing is a discussion of the extra work that typically will be required to ensure that both applications and databases have consistent code.
The only thing that I see missing is a discussion of the extra work that typically will be required to ensure that both applications and databases have consistent code.
