Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Mount CD Rom/DVD Rom for installing Oracle Database
Most of the linux distros these days automount their CDs with the noexec switch set. In other word no-one apart from root is allowed to execute programs from the mounted media.To work around this login as root and unmount cdrom using this commandumount /dev/cdromthen remount it with...
Friday, August 1, 2008
PL/SQL features by release
A Mini-History of Oracle and PL/SQLThis chapter answers two questions: where did PL/SQL come from and why is it the best database development language ever developed? In the late 70s, around the time Ingres was getting started at UC Berkeley, three guys working on a contract for...