I just discovered the great x_send_file plugin and technique and use it extensivly for daily fratze. I replaced the majority of send_file calls with x_send_file but not all (the in memory thingies i serve cannot be send through apache). This works great in production mode but in development mode, it fails as there is no […]
In my Daily Fratze project the users should be able to download their faces as a zip file backup. Until now they have been able to upload zip files. For that, i used rubyzip which worked quite well. As a starting point i found a nice article on the joy of rubyzip, but this has […]
Recently i needed windows clients to access a directory on the database server from which CLOBs where created. Since the server is an Oracle Enterprise Linux, i could follow the steps explained behind the following link to get Samba up and running with the Active Directory run by a Windows 2k3 server: Which steps must […]
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied Yiipiee… Although i created my schema with the usually scripts we use, i got a logon denied… Switching context from Oracle Forms 6 to Reports 6… (Please, don’t say anything about legacy apps). I didn’t notify that passwords are now case-sensitive in a Oracle database (which is a good thing), […]
As a last post in the series (1, 2, 3, 4): Installing the latest and greatest incarnation of the Oracle Database named “Oracle 11g” on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 running as a paravirtualized machine on Oracle VM Server. Honestly, i was afraid of installing Oracle the first time under a linux environment but i must […]